Word: unpopular
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...Republican problem is more direct. "The GOP simply has to change the perception that it's the impeachment party," says Dickerson. That unpopular image is a much harder noose to slip out of, and one that will take all the political talent that GOP leaders can muster. "The Republican party," says Dickerson, "needs to quickly hammer out a post-impeachment agenda and start lining up achievements in Congress." Policy activism, however, is also the strategy that the Democrats need to pursue. That battle could make for yet another nasty partisan fight. So what else...
...dice the prosecution's reading of both the facts and the law on Tuesday, Clinton hopes to shift attention to his accomplishments and his plans. His State of the Union address will focus on saving Social Security and on improving education. Spin subtext: Congress may be consumed by an unpopular impeachment trial, but President Clinton is thinking about the issues that concern Americans...
...that you're unpopular among politicians and popular with the people...
Broadcast executives have been moaning that this unpopular story is costing them plenty, but maybe they don't realize just how much. "They've read the polls that indicate the public is fed up and tuned out," says TIME senior reporter Bill Tynan. "While they believe it is their duty to cover a news event of this magnitude, they lose all sorts of income from the advertisers for regular programming whose spots are pre-empted by the live coverage of impeachment...
DIED. ALBERT GORE SR., 90, former Tennessee Congressman and Senator and father of the Vice President; in Carthage. A key mover behind the interstate highway system and a Southern liberal who took unpopular stands against segregation and the Vietnam War, he once advised his son not to settle for the No. 2 spot, calling it a "dead-end street...