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Desperate for funds, unable to get income or corporate taxes through the labyrinth of the constitution, Clinton tried to build badly needed roads with new-car registration and license fees. The costs of this angered small farmers in the key swing counties, who have a heavy turnover in junky cars and trucks, each change now entailing a higher registration...
...Sparky has to scrounge for equipment on the black market, holds practices in a cavernous warehouse and listens sadly to Voice of America broadcasts as his Mariners head for the World Series. (It's a fantasy.) Mantegna is delightfully dour, and the film knows its capabilities: it doesn't swing for the fences, but gets a lot of sharp singles...
...vice-presidential nominees. As political analyst Kevin Phillips puts it, "What Perot needs in a Vice President is someone who's political, yet puts the finger in the eye of the politicians. Someone like Rudman. And Clinton too needs a running mate who reinforces his outsider status with Perot swing voters...
Johnson looks forward to September, when the community policing program will be in full swing. He hopes the new program will help correct some of the public's misperceptions...
Clinton hopes that enlightened self-interest will cause swing voters to buy his agenda. He tirelessly repeats a statistic popularized by New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley: by the year 2000, only 57% of those entering the work force will be native-born whites. "It has become increasingly clear that the economic future of whites is tied inextricably to that of minorities," says Clinton. "From now on, we all rise or fall together, economically as well as morally...