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Three months later, Clinton was ahead in the polls but losing traction on health care. Top advisers noticed that he sounded confused on the stump, skipping back and forth between reform plans without clarifying which one he was for. Health-care groups with various agendas bombarded Clinton's Little Rock campaign headquarters with faxes charging him with backing away from the issue. In fact, the campaign was in a deliberate straddle. Clinton's aides, led by James Carville and pollster Greenberg, told him health care was important but cautioned him that the less specific he was, the better. After...
That, the Clinton Administration made clear last week, is pretty much what the U.S. intends to do. On the stump and during the presidential transition, Clinton said he would consider tougher action against Serbian aggression and criticized Vance-Owen for in effect rewarding the Serbs for their "ethnic cleansing." He said in recent weeks he wanted to give Bosnia's Muslims a better deal and make the Serbs give up more of the territory they have seized...
...Thank you, New Mexico," Clinton began, as he sailed into a greatest-hits reprise of his stump speech. But he also sounded a new note that aides said was designed to lower voter expectations of a Clinton Camelot after the election: "I'm here to tell you we didn't get into this mess overnight, and we won't get out of it overnight." By the time Clinton left Albuquerque around 4 a.m., the first polls were open on the East Coast...
When his allegations caused a sensation, Perot backed off, castigating reporters for what he called "your twisted, distorted stories." Yet it was Perot himself who made the disclosures and who talked up the CBS program at campaign stump speeches in New Jersey and Pennsylvania...
Takano like many of this year's unconventional candidates has become a minor celebrity, and thus won more conventional support. House Majority leader Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) even visited Riverside to stump for Takano last week...