Word: ran
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...above borrowing the tactics of the enemy, especially when he has seen them work. For the first time, congressional Democrats have spelled out what they intend to do if voters give them a second chance, an imitation of the strategy they ridiculed, to their regret, when the Republicans ran on the Contract with America two years ago. Gone are any grand liberal schemes for redistributing wealth and re-engineering society. In their place is Families First, an agenda Gephardt calls "modest, realistic and achievable," and Republicans blast as election-year gorilla dust. The greatest testament to the House Democrats...
...House seat in 1976, Gephardt evolved into a pro-choice liberal whom labor considers its most reliable friend in Congress. Not even his admirers are sure they know what it is Gephardt really believes. But in a 25-year career, he has miscalculated only once, when he ran for President in 1988 and his campaign fizzled after the New Hampshire primary. If he can succeed now in restoring his party's hold over the institution that it once considered its birthright, Gephardt may even get a second chance at that dream...
...cautionary precedent, the Democrats know that if they do regain power, it will be by a margin so thin that they won't pass anything without the support of their moderates--and probably a few Republicans. "We're going to have to run the place the way Sam Rayburn ran it," says Michigan's John Dingell, one of the few House members who have been around long enough to have served under the legendary autocratic Speaker. "Rayburn thought that having too many Democrats was a source of danger and mischief." And while New York's Charles Rangel still has trouble...
Also, even before the latest exchange, Clinton had proved himself to be an expert counterpuncher. In response to an earlier Dole drug ad, the Clinton campaign last week ran a spot announcing, among other things, that the President "now wants drug testing [of prisoners] to keep abusers locked up." That was illustrated by a cell door slamming shut...
...with Spiro Agnew. In Nixon's calculus, Agnew was a safe-bet border-state novice with no heavy baggage and a Greek-immigrant father, which would help with the ethnic vote. He had been known as a Republican moderate, based on his campaign for Governor against a Democrat who ran on what was then a racially inflammatory slogan: "Your home is your castle." But Agnew could also talk tough. The press said, "Spiro...