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...government substantially." Gore advisers argue that Democrats have earned the trust of voters, that prosperity, balanced budgets and the prospect of huge future surpluses have put Americans in a mood to take a chance on new spending that solves problems for seniors and families. But Bush strategist Karl Rove sees another trend. "Undecided voters by 2 to 1 favor the Bush view of government," he says. "We like the contrast between a man who believes in an activist but limited government and one who defends an expansive, Big Government vision...
...rhetoric was totally devoid of surprise: Ask Donna Shalala who won, you get a solid vote for Gore. Ask Karl Rove the same question, you get a big shout-out for Bush. And Al Franken milled about, sounding sarcastic...
...campaigns and the press. The facts have been on holiday. Except at the FBI, where agents have been interviewing the handful of Bush aides who had access to the material. The one senior Bush adviser who hadn't been interviewed as of Saturday afternoon was chief campaign strategist Karl Rove. That fact alone started a torrent of speculation. The storm intensified with reports that the FBI had identified a suspect within the Bush campaign. That cued Austin to counter indignantly with its own unfounded accusation--that the Clinton-Gore Justice Department was leaking lies to sow chaos in the Bush...
...world. The facts have been on holiday. Except at the FBI, where agents have been quietly interviewing the handful of top Bush aides who had access to the material. Oddly, one senior Bush adviser who hadn't been interviewed as of Saturday afternoon was chief campaign strategist Karl Rove. That fact alone started a new torrent of speculation...
Bush himself seems conflicted about the heart of his message. "Reasonable change," the phrase chief strategist Karl Rove uses internally to describe what Bush is selling, is not a particularly revolutionary product. It lets you clean house without tearing it down. When Bush was running symbolically against Bill Clinton, the message seemed to work. Bush was a new kind of Republican--which meant he wasn't Newt Gingrich, and he wouldn't shut down the government or open the orphanages. And he exuded a freshness, optimism and tolerance that voters found appealing...