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Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 7:18 PM
Subject: Beyond "Super Tuesday"


> Institute for Public Accuracy
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> Wednesday, March 8, 2000
>
> BEYOND "SUPER TUESDAY": ANALYSTS AVAILABLE
>
> LEONARD WILLIAMS, [log in to unmask]
> Professor of political science at Manchester College and co-author of the
> recent Campaigns and Elections article "'Moderates Win' and Other
Political
> Myths," Williams said today: "In part the election fits the standard
> scenario of the more established candidates winning after a bit of
trouble.
> But up to this point in the campaign there's been more of a progressive
> ideological center of gravity than in years. There's an emphasis on
> promoting education, protecting Social Security, having a Patients Bill of
> Rights and campaign finance reform. If you'd said all these things 10
years
> ago, you'd be laughed off the face of the earth. The Democratic Party had
> been running from organized labor and abortion rights, but not now. On the
> Republican side, you see attacks on conservative icons like Pat Robertson
> and Jerry Falwell. You have McCain criticizing Bush for presenting a tax
> plan that favors the rich. And you see Bush attacking McCain on being weak
> on the environment and not funding breast cancer research." On the other
> hand, Williams noted that last night Gore praised initiatives like
"welfare
> reform," which he had been avoiding.
>
> STEFFIE WOOLHANDLER, M.D., http://www.pnhp.org
> Woolhandler is director of the Center for National Health Program Studies
> at Harvard. She said today: "When Bill Bradley first announced his
[health]
> plan he got a bounce -- almost everyone liked the idea of universal health
> coverage. But the more people looked at the plan, the more it became clear
> that he really wasn't offering anything, even if the rhetoric sounded
good.
> Virtually the only people who had anything nice to say about it don't know
> about health policy. While Gore and Bradley have poor health plans, the
> Republicans really haven't addressed the issue, which is just their way of
> saying that Wall Street should run the health care system. People's real
> problems with health care are not being addressed."
>
> THEODORE LOWI, [log in to unmask]
> Professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University, Lowi
wrote
> "The End of Liberalism" in 1969. In 1995, he published "The End of the
> Republican Era." Today he said: "Such is the construction of the national
> Republican coalition that it cannot last. The New Deal coalition was
> predicated on government growth and that's why it lasted so long,
expanding
> and burning out during the Republican Nixon administration. Similarly, the
> conservatism that has since risen achieved its greatest power during the
> '80s, culminating in the nominally Democratic Clinton administration. The
> three factions of the Republican Party cannot be held together -- the
> liberal/libertarian country club faction; the traditional, secular
> conservative small town faction; and the Southern, sacred conservative
> faction. The fault lines are getting deeper..."
>
> For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
> Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; David Zupan, (541) 484-9167
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