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After the verdict, White House advisers were relieved to see polls register little movement--evidence that Whitewater had already been fully priced in by the political market. "People who were going to vote against him over Whitewater made up their minds a long time ago," says Clinton strategist George Stephanopoulos. But "if there were three [new] Whitewater stories a week for the next 20 weeks," he adds, that could move votes for Bob Dole...
...their benefits. The White House has been following the state's experiment closely; this is the stuff Clinton likes to read in bed. Clinton also knew that the following Tuesday, Dole would be traveling to Wisconsin to deliver his big welfare address. Knowledge of the Republican choreography, a Clinton strategist says, "drove the timing of our response, if not the substance...
...school. Reforming welfare and opposing same-sex marriage, they insist, are core Clinton beliefs, even though he's done precious little to advance the former and has never had much to say about the latter. "Morris has his eye on one thing above all else," a campaign strategist says. "Keep the President steady. Now that he's claimed the center, make sure he sits still, no matter how bumpy the ride gets...
...will instantly become a nonevent if he does not live up to his rhetoric. "Once we had a 73-year-old majority leader with no message. It won't work if in a month we just have a 73-year-old ex-majority leader with no message," says Republican strategist Bill Kristol. His message cannot be: I've quit the job I really love, so give me a better...
...Kennedy, but Brown eventually left public service to join Patton, Boggs, one of the capital's pre-eminent lobbying firms. There he earned a six-figure income representing a client list that included a Haitian dictator and several Japanese megacorporations. In 1988 he dipped back into politics as a strategist for Jesse Jackson's campaign. Brown's skills as go-between kept the insurgent Jackson from tearing apart the Democratic Convention--an experience that left Brown with a keen sense of how divided the Democrats were as well as a conviction that he was the only one who could unite...