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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could hardly market his essential nature when he was so busy repackaging it. By the time he had dispensed with Gramm and the rest, he had abandoned his long-standing support for affirmative action and taken a much harder line on illegal immigration. He had led the fight to repeal the ban on assault weapons, then shifted positions a year later. He had morphed into a movie critic, of films he hadn't seen. He had called Steve Forbes' flat tax "snake oil" in February but by August had become a born-again supply-sider. "I'm willing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELECTION '96: CAMPAIGN: TWO MEN, TWO VISIONS | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...organization to keep out hard-core Dole and Clinton supporters, was selected from registered San Diego County voters who say they are still undecided. What the candidates can expect to hear from them are concerns important to California voters, especially three hot-button issues: Proposition 209, a proposal to repeal affirmative action, Proposition 215, which would to allow medical uses of marijuana and the recently-enacted welfare reform bill, a vital issue in a state that contains about 40 percent of the country's immigrants. -->