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...year's elections. The president is traditionally the figure who Americans give credit to or blame for the economy, as Ford, Carter, and Bush all found out to their distress. Clinton will inevitably benefit from a growing economy as Reagan did. An astonishing 51 percent of Americans (in a CNN poll, Nov. 10) feel they are better off now than three years ago. These voters are hardly the ones to vote for a change. At the same time, Clinton has racked up a very impressive foreign policy record. During his administration, major peace initiatives have been achieved in the Middle...
...electoral vote, have a lock on the presidency in two-way races. But this is just not consistent with the latest poll data. Clinton is currently crushing le by 16 percent overall and lead. Role in every state except for a handful of states with few electoral votes (Time-CNN poll...
...News president plans to launch a 24-hour news channel early in 1997 that its president, Roone Arledge, today claimed would be an alternative, rather than a challenger, to CNN. "It will be very difficult for ABC to put a dent in CNN's penetration because CNN has been around for so long," says senior media writer Richard Zoglin. "The fact that they have more than 200 affiliate stations will give them a leg up with local coverage, but the head start that Turner has may be insurmountable." ABC will seek to distribute the all-news programming using both cable...
...first sign of snow. Among his ads blanketing New Hampshire and Iowa, one is the sharpest attack so far against Dole; it accuses the Senator of voting for 16 tax increases in the past 13 years, a charge that nettled Dole when Forbes himself made it in a cnn debate two weeks ago in Florida...
...ruled out a run under the banner of Perot's new third party. Had he run instead as an unorthodox Republican, Powell the nonpolitician would have carried off a good part of the Perot vote. So Perot was happy last week to praise Powell while he buried him. On CNN's Larry King Live, Perot talked about what a fine candidate Powell would have been, while advancing his own agenda. Perot blamed "the dirty tricks, the gutter politics" for scaring off the best contenders...