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...unlike the 1946 parade, where local politicians delivered a round of stump speeches at the parade's end, this year's parade had no overt politicking--even in a presidential election year. Participating in the parade were State Senate President Thomas F. Birmingham '72 (D-Chelsea), State Senator Robert E. Travaglini (D-Cambridge) and U.S. Rep Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Cambridge), among others...
However, bigger-name speakers confirmed and slated to "stump" at the event thus far are Rep. Barney Frank '61-'62 (D-Mass.), a highly liberal, often controversial politician who is up for re-election this year, and David Wilhelm, a former chair of the Democratic National Committee and a current IOP Fellow who will be representing Clinton's 1996 presidential campaign at the event...
Kemp can also be a variable asset on the stump, contagiously enthusiastic as a speaker but also long-winded and unreliable. Dole campaign officials are already wondering if he can be counted on to soft-pedal his differences with the candidate on immigration and affirmative action. And by his very incandescence and ambition, his untiring knack for putting himself out front, there's the danger that he will effectively turn the Dole-Kemp ticket into Kemp-Dole...
...find out where voters are and just go there. Voters are comfortable with Clinton in part because he is not asking anything of them; he's too busy reflecting their every impulse. Dole will never be as convincing as a panderer, and in his speeches and gestures on the stump he seems to suggest that this political shortcoming is a personal strength. Dole is asking voters to trust that he's a leader with strong principles even as he does little to demonstrate those qualities. "I want to win for the right reason," he says. "I want to win because...
...advised on staging crowds (and government employees were regularly instructed to attend Yeltsin's rallies). They conceived Russia's first-ever serious direct-mail effort (a letter from Yeltsin to Russian veterans thanking them for their service). They designed a campaign to use Yeltsin's wife Naina on the stump, where she was regularly well received. And they fought continuously all suggestions that Yeltsin debate Zyuganov. "He would have lost," Gorton says simply...