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...reading, IT'S THE SPENDING, STUPID! Radio blowtorch Rush Limbaugh bet the Democratic National Committee $1 million that by Jan. 1, 1995, inflation, unemployment, interest rates and the federal deficit will all be higher and that Clinton's approval rating in the polls will be 45% or less. David Wilhelm of the D.N.C. replied with a counteroffer: If the Clinton plan works, Limbaugh will have to give his microphone to the D.N.C. for a year...
That sentiment finds wide agreement among experts on right-wing extremism, who see a crackdown as only part of the solution. "Xenophobia in the public is still relatively strong, and it is being separated ((from the criminal acts)). There is nothing in this ((program)) to overcome it," says Wilhelm Heitmayer, a social scientist at the University of Bielefeld. He argues that the crackdown has the misleading effect of "reinterpreting" the attacks as being those of a few criminals on the periphery. Among the statistics experts use to illustrate the depth of the problem is a poll this month...
Clinton was not satisfied. He remembered vividly that Dukakis had come out of the 1988 convention with another impressive lead (17 points), but suffered a fatal loss of momentum by frittering away August without doing any effective campaigning. Thomases and campaign manager David Wilhelm pushed the idea of the bus tours; Clinton seized on it quickly as a means of building on the convention momentum and furthering his penchant for unconventional campaigning. Plans for the first tour, a six-day jaunt from New York City to St. Louis, Missouri, were being drawn even before the convention...
...banking industry's willingness to accept the warrants has acted as a shock absorber in keeping the pressure off the legislature to solve the budget problem," concluded California Banking Association official Greg Wilhelm. With that, after swallowing a total of 876,000 California IOUS worth nearly $2 billion, the Bank of America and other leading California banks last week stopped honoring the so-called registered warrants, which the state has been paying out in lieu of real money...
None of this, of course, is conclusive. Friendly crowds and sunny poll numbers can be a fatal August illusion. But for now, the mood of the Clinton campaign is a kind of dazed humility at the wondrous workings of fate. Says campaign manager David Wilhelm, who originally dreamed up the notion of putting the Clinton campaign on wheels: "I'd love to be able to say that we knew it would strike this chord. It just isn't true...