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...important goals and to drive them hard." Some observers doubt that the Reaganauts, except perhaps for the President himself, have any great gift for the art of political compromise. Indeed, just about the only aide left in Reagan's inner circle who is adept at handling Congress, Mitch Daniels, may leave the Administration soon. Norman Ornstein, a political scientist at the American Enterprise Institute, says that with the exception of Daniels, "I don't think there's a single individual in the White House with a good understanding of how to work with Capitol Hill...
...that currently have Democratic Senators -- California, Colorado, Louisiana, Missouri -- they need to win just four of the nine or so Republican seats that are considered vulnerable. Yet Republicans have become renowned for their abilities down the stretch. The G.O.P. may be shaky this year, admits White House Political Adviser Mitch Daniels. But, he adds, "we've got the money, and we've got the President...
...victory been more urgently needed," exhort letters from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. "We're in the fight of our lives!" exclaim letters from the Republican Presidential Task Force. The White House too is signaling red alert. "For this Administration's next two years," says Reagan's political adviser Mitch Daniels, "nothing approaches control of the Senate in importance...
Incumbents' voting records are a popular target for sarcasm. "The character question cuts more deeply than specific issues in a lot of campaigns this year," says Washington Media Consultant Robert Squier. The trend got a big boost from Republican Mitch McConnell's wildly successful "bloodhound" spots for the Kentucky Senate race in 1984. The series of commercials starred jowly hunting dogs in hot pursuit of Democratic Incumbent Walter Huddleston. The dogs searched everywhere for the supposedly lackadaisical Huddleston, in his district office and other places where one would be likely to find an assiduous Senator. In the last spot...
...Anyone who spent a night in a public park risked a police rousting. But as the numbers of dispossessed grew, and police began cracking down, Santa Barbara came in for increasing criticism and ridicule. Last week, as Doonesbury Cartoonist Garry Trudeau lampooned Santa Barbara in his comic strip and Mitch Snyder, a Washington-based activist, threatened to march on Santa Barbara on Labor Day with thousands of homeless people, the city council relented. Overnight sleeping will soon be permitted in certain designated public areas, including undeveloped, city-owned lots, and cars parked on city streets. After next week, however...