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...thought about Pete last week--he is now a deputy to Karl Rove--and wondered how he felt about the disgraceful wasteland that Bush's social policy has become. (Sadly, Pete didn't answer my call.) The tax cut, for example, is actually a double hit on poor children. In addition to the child tax credit fiasco, there is a potentially devastating impact on tax-free municipal bonds, which are used to finance major construction projects. Cities will have to offer higher interest rates to compete with private bonds now that all dividends are taxed at only 15%. That will...
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...explain why the gender gap that had worked to the Democrats' advantage since Ronald Reagan was in office narrowed sharply in last fall's congressional elections. For the first time in more than a decade, the Republicans had near parity with women. President Bush's top political adviser Karl Rove believes a shift among women with children under 18 was a major factor in the G.O.P.'s historic victory in last year's midterms, in which the President became the first Republican in a century to see his party gain seats in an off-year election. "9/11 changed everything," says...
...first glance, Karl Rove's decision to schedule the 2004 Republican convention for the first week of September in New York City looks like a masterful move. Rove?s strategy for winning Bush a second term is to focus on domestic matters, particularly the economy, but never let voters forget the President?s performance as commander in chief. What could be better campaign imagery than Bush accepting his renomination in New York, where he found his footing after 9/11, a little over a week before that day's anniversary? But a smart Democratic challenger could turn this imagery...
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