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For Republicans, the battle for 1996 began officially last Tuesday, but it had started unofficially more than two years ago, when George Bush reneged on his no-new-taxes pledge. He sparked a full-scale revolt by the party's right $ wing, which neither much liked nor trusted him in...
Bush's defeat only deepens the fissures in the party. Lacking the anticommunism and prosperity glue that united them for the past 25 years, conservatives and moderates are certain to fight more fiercely over such already contentious issues as taxes, spending, deficits, abortion rights -- and ultimately over the Grand Old...
People in both parties are "moderates" these days. They pick and choose issues from each party and try to eke out some kind of political philosophy from that. Or they just follow Ross Perot, who claims to be in the middle, but doesn't seem to have any political philosophy...
Gone were the fiery speeches in support of AIDS, abortion rights and civil rights of the Democratic convention. But Clinton, trying to deemphasize these issues, may have hurt his cause. Gore, in the vice presidential debates, pointed out that by letting right-wing extremists take over their party (and convention...
It is unclear whether any members of the Non-Left Coalition, a group of self-described moderates, won election this week.