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...this treasured journalistic flip-flop may be harder to perform in November 1996, for two reasons. First, it has been weeks if not months since the media have been able to persuade either themselves or their audience that there was any real uncertainty about the election result--at least on the presidential level. And second, President Clinton's brilliantly successful re-election strategy of good times, bite-size issues (school uniforms) and soaring but empty imagery (bridges hither and yon) does not lend itself to grand historical theorizing or to bold claims about what the voters were trying...
...decent human being. Apparently, his appearance earlier Tuesday with Dusan Makavajev's film class was great--sources say he was charming, witty and personable. So how come he melted down when he got to Sanders? Perhaps he was flustered by the bright lights and the pressure to perform, sort of like my On Thin Ice audition...
Ladies and gentlemen, let me ask those of you up front to move back so that everyone can see and hear, for I am about to perform a time-honored healing ritual of political journalists. With the able assistance of a corps of researchers, I shall produce a cornucopia of quotations bemoaning the state of our candidates and the campaign, only to reveal that--tah-dahhh!--these comments were about past political campaigns. Ready...
...landslide and, in this conservative district, is favored to do it again. In Washington he represents his constituents' desire for lower taxes and less government spending. Last June he sponsored an amendment to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from funding any activity it is not directly authorized to perform. And in his district, he holds town meetings almost every weekend to talk with voters and strengthen his consensus...
ABORTION. House: Would you have voted for the bill to ban so-called partial-birth abortions, in which the doctor removes the fetus' brain tissue after bringing the fetus into the birth canal? Under the bill, doctors who perform the procedure could be subject to criminal and civil penalties. [H: HR1833. Passed, H vote: 288-139] Senate: Would you have voted for the amendment to a bill prescribing criminal and civil penalties for doctors who perform so-called partial-birth abortions? The amendment would have provided legal protections for doctors who used the procedure to protect the life or health...