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Though Clinton was the most liberal candidate in the field, he managed to come across as enough of a centrist to draw slightly more support from independents than other Democratic candidates had. On the other hand, he ran behind Dukakis among those who identified themselves as liberal. A sliver of them apparently stayed home. And, despite Perot's appeal to independents -- the Texas billionaire captured one-quarter of those unaffiliated with the two parties -- Clinton still won a plurality of those voters...
...Angeles lawyer, has been working secretly for eight weeks. In Washington the Democratic Leadership Council has been pondering policy and structural questions for even longer, and Clinton's aides expect its conclusions will carry special weight. Clinton helped found and was once chairman of the group, a collection of centrist Democrats whose views the President-elect has often echoed. The council's thoughts -- and those of its think tank, the Progressive Policy Institute -- will be presented to Clinton later this week, and may offer the best window into understanding how he will proceed from here...
...President-elect Clinton readily associate himself with these politicians, given that he campaigned on a platform of change, change and change? The fact is, Clinton will likely be much more receptive to the ideas of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council than his blazingly liberal speeches would indicate...
Clinton did run and win again in 1990, and that same year he became chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council, a centrist organization that gave him a platform for addressing the national press as to what kind of Democratic candidate might finally break the long Republican lock on the White House. The picture -- surprise! -- was a kind of idealized self-portrait: a nontraditionalist who could win back the alienated white middle class by repudiating tax-and-spend, something-for-nothing policies and stressing / economic growth to be achieved by heavy government investment in job-creating activities...
...became again, a tougher problem. The Governor rejected any idea of adopting a more traditionally liberal program in hopes of holding enough of the Democrats' core constituency -- perhaps 35% of the vote -- to eke out victory in a three-man race. Clinton insisted on sticking with his broadly based centrist program and was quickly -- though temporarily -- rewarded. Not only did Perot quit the race, as some in the Clinton camp had rather wistfully predicted; he did it on July 16, only hours before Clinton delivered his acceptance speech to the Democratic Convention. For good measure, the mercurial Texan praised...