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Some politicians had to accommodate a lot faster than Dole or Clinton. In Washington State first-term Republican Congressman Randy Tate, elected in 1994 as a classic young conservative revolutionary, ran television commercials in 1996 denouncing his Democratic opponent (named, hilariously, Adam Smith) as a lying "liberal." Smith's alleged liberal lies were mainly that Tate wanted to cut a variety of liberal spending programs--not just Medicare but also student loans and so on. Tate, the ads insisted, actually voted to increase spending on these programs...
Republicans like Tate (and Dole) have a legitimate complaint here. Democrats, from Clinton on down, found their best issue this year in overstating if not actually fabricating Republican designs to shrink the government. In that sense you could say that this election was indeed "stolen." Claiming the center ground and painting the opposition as extreme is a standard campaign strategy, but it is a game the Republicans have played much better than the Democrats until this year. For the Democrats to play it suddenly with equal success does seem almost like cheating. Two things made this possible. Republicans are happy...
...JOHN TATE (R) District...
...RANDY TATE (R) District...
...Tate parlayed his state legislative experience into a seat in Congress. Though he was the youngest G.O.P. freshman in the House, his youth didn't soften his conservative agenda: he voted to ease the Clean Water Act and to relax a law excluding court evidence illegally obtained by police. His proposal to bar illegal immigrants from becoming U.S. citizens was passed in modified form this fall. In this centrist district, Tate is running a close race with Adam Smith...