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Clinton's first tactic was to elevate substance over personality: "I decided it was critical to deal with the 'Where's the beef?' question before trotting out my personal life story." Clinton realized that a recession- plagued nation was "eager for specific answers" and that Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey, whom he considers his main opponent, was "taking the other tack, running on his biography before even attempting to detail what he would do. He's doing what Al Gore did in '88. Gore entered the race without having his message down, so he was pigeonholed as having none...
...Consumer Product Safety Commission from 1973 to '79, and is a director of seven corporations, among them Aetna, Dow Chemical and Westinghouse. A savvy Republican fund raiser, Franklin co-chaired a dinner last fall that gathered $1.2 million for Bush's 1992 campaign. Her appointment is also a campaign tactic to boost Bush's support among women, 54% of the voters...
...polished and full of specifics. When Clinton delivered a speech at Georgetown in October, there were whoops as he lambasted the greedheads on Wall Street and the drug dealers of Mean Street, and again when he laced into George Bush for dividing the country by using the oldest tactic in the book: "You find the most economically insecure white people, and you scare the living daylights out of them." At a fund raiser for Illinois Democrats, he showed he can make the case that America is wasting much of its young generation. "It's a long, long way in this...
...politics for a simple reason: it works. "Some of us would like to get beyond this business of scaring people and dividing them against blacks," says one of George Bush's closest political advisers, "but it's hard to argue against a formula that's seen as successful." The tactic has succeeded best in states and districts where the minority population is large enough that whites can be made to feel threatened by it. When George Brown ran for re-election as Tennessee's first black supreme court justice in 1980, he says he got more support from white hillbillies...
...keeping with that tactic, the White House and Congress took aim last week at the most stubbornly high rates of all: the interest that banks charge on credit-card balances. While the prime rate has fallen from 10% a year ago to 7.5% today, credit-card rates remain stuck at an average 18.8%. Banks say they need that interest to offset the cost of rising delinquencies. But President ) Bush last week urged bankers to reduce their rates. Not to be outdone, the Senate voted 74 to 19 to put a cap on credit-card rates under a formula that would...