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...congressman from suburban Long Island is a good moderate-to-conservative Republican, with none of Rudy's enemies in the state GOP and fewer problems with Republicans in upstate New York, where Giuliani was almost as much of a carpetbagger from Manhattan as Clinton is from Washington. Lazio backed Newt Gingrich, but also has a moderate record on family leave and abortion rights, which will blunt some of Clinton's attacks on him as a lockstep GOP party man. Pooley says the race may well depend on which vote is bigger: pro-Hillary or anti-Hillary. "There...
...ENGAGED. NEWT GINGRICH, 56, former House Speaker; to CALLISTA BISEK, 33, with whom he had an extramarital affair that was revealed last year during Gingrich's divorce from his second wife...
...trend. Ever since Bill and Hillary Clinton served up more than 1,000 pages of health-care-reform proposals for their opponents to pick apart in 1993, pols have erred on the side of vagueness (not that this was an entirely undiscovered path to political success). In 1994 Newt Gingrich used poll-tested platitudes to sweep Republicans into power. A year later, when Gingrich got down to the prosaic details of governing, like offering specific Medicare-spending controls, the public--egged on by Clinton--rebelled. The lesson: be vague. There's a corollary: if you must be specific, then...
...data reveals other disturbing trends as well--most notably the fact that the poor are now more likely than the rich to have their tax returns audited. The imbalance dates back to 1995 when Newt Gingrich and the Republican controlled House threatened to reduce the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), fearful that the working poor would abuse the program. In response, Clinton proposed to check fraud and misuse through increased audits of low earners. What has resulted is a state of affairs in which those who make less that $25,000 are more likely to be audited than high earners...
...Newt Gingrich, the often ostentatious former Speaker of the House, is portrayed as a ticking bomb. And Trudeau draws President Clinton as a waffle...