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...three Republican organizations that will call on the party to back the right to an abortion. Ann Stone, who leads Republicans for Choice, thinks Bush must again become pro-choice -- a position Bush himself once held -- to prevent disgruntled moderate voters from casting their lot with the pro- choice Perot. Stone also fears an anti-Republican backlash should the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1974 decision that guaranteed abortion rights...
...Perot's emergence has been most difficult for Clinton, who has been shunted to third place in most national polls. Clinton had recruited a number of political consultants who are experts at turning old-fashioned liberals, particularly from the South, into hard-headed moderates. Now, instead of moving to the center, Clinton may soon be quick-marching to the left. Should Perot's support hold, Clinton too will be squeezed into a 34% strategy and may have to run instead as a relatively unrefined liberal in order to hold his base...
...leading role in the fight for abortion rights, which he backs but for which he has in the past let others fight. "Tactically," said Harrison Hickman, a Democratic pollster, "you want to focus on getting those people out to vote. Strategically, you have to take a leaf from Perot's book by establishing your leadership credentials...
...most of the base tending taking place now is good politics for either a two-man or a three-man race. As a Bush official put it last week, "The question is, Are we fleet enough, are we agile enough to drop back into a two-man strategy if Perot proves to be a flash in the pan?" In that event, the White House will go to the party that does the best job of lurching back toward the center...
Such calculations, however, go a long way toward explaining why that is unlikely to happen. If Bush and Clinton stood stoutly for something in this curious campaign rather than seeming to shift with the winds, they would not have generated the public discontent Perot is now exploiting...