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...Gore appeal is that corporate buzz word, synergy: when the images of the two are fused in the public mind, the sum appears greater than the parts. "There's a lot of discussion in our focus groups where people are excited about the two of them together," says Clinton pollster Stan Greenberg. "It translates into an anticipation of energy and activism in the White House." Maybe so, but this Doublemint campaign could be reaching its natural limits -- too often the artful tactics of late summer turn into tired cliches by Election Day. Still, there is a chemistry between Clinton...
...Bill Clinton accepts that there is a moral decline," says his campaign pollster, Stan Greenberg. "That the values of mainstream America have not been respected and supported. But George Bush is part of the problem." The Clinton strategy is summarized in the slogan that top strategist James Carville has posted in the campaign war room at the Little Rock, Arkansas, headquarters: "It's the economy, stupid." The Clinton approach, says Greenberg, is that "family values is about fifth on the list of what voters want addressed by their President...
Family values is a peculiar ingredient in this year's campaign. California pollster Mervin Field says, "The public has a limited amount of problem space in their heads . . . If you're at a rally and you're worried about losing your job, you don't care to hear about family values." But the historian Christopher Lasch remarks, "To see the modern world from the point of view of a parent is to see it in the worst possible light." The deeper energy in the values argument arises from that parent's perspective upon the future. It makes them angry...
...show one's concern for loved ones by laying out their most private tragedies for all the world to see. Of course, the point is not love or family but politics: endearing the candidate to the nation as a man of sensitivity and caring. Clinton pollster Stan Greenberg, reports the New York Times, said his polls showed that the candidates' "sense of revelation" had reduced the impression of their being "too slick and too political...
...strategists in both parties think this year may prove an exception. Democrats sense an unexpected synergy between Clinton and Gore. Television images of the two fortysomething men calling for change "help us make our case that it's the new against the old," says Clinton strategist James Carville. Democratic pollster Geoffrey Garin says if voters are closely divided between Bush and Clinton in November, the Quayle-Gore mismatch "has the potential to be a scale tipper in favor of the Democrats...