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...task force of House and Senate leaders designed in part to ensure that the Senate majority leader and other moderate Senate Republicans would not unilaterally trade away elements of Gingrich's revolution in the final days of congressional bargaining. The Speaker also anointed himself the Hill's master strategist and tactician. When the time came for Republicans to take a harder line toward Bill Clinton, it was Gingrich, not Dole, who set the tone. And when the time came to secure a powerful ally for the G.O.P.'s embattled overhaul of Medicare, it was Gingrich, not Dole...
...September. It is the self-styled voice of the conservative revolution. The headline emblazoned across the magazine's cover was PERMANENT OFFENSE. But the most notable article was a virtual endorsement of Powell for President by William Kristol, the Standard's editor and the G.O.P.'s most influential strategist. So much for the revolution...
...shortfall in finances and polls, at the heart of Wilson's problems is a scabrous disunity among his chief lieutenants amounting to a civil war. It pits a former George Bush operative against a tight inner circle of long-standing Wilson loyalists and, more precisely, political manager against political strategist. On one side is Craig Fuller, a former tobacco-company executive and chief of staff to then Vice President Bush. On the other is George Gorton, a longtime Wilson political consultant who has shaped the strategy for all Wilson's campaigns with a talent for crystallizing hot issues, from three...
...coverage, she says, is a "multidisciplinary challenge." A Simpson trial reporter needs to be "a lawyer, a sleuth, a Hollywood entertainment specialist, an expert in race relations, a sociologist and a political strategist." That's why we're glad to rely on a couple of correspondents with a multitude of gifts...
Senator Phil Gramm, for instance, expects to be a strong runner-up in Iowa and New Hampshire but to break away in the Sunshine State. "We've got to win Florida,'' says Senator Gramm's top strategist, Charles Black. Gramm's aides are meeting methodically with all 150 Republican clubs in the state; Dole's aides are setting up steering committees in every one of the state's 67 counties. Part of what motivates this courtship is that Florida's Republican convention in November will hold the largest straw poll, just over two months before any voting takes place...