Word: plan
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...percent, publisher Steve Forbes runs second at 20 percent. He hopes a strong finish will give his campaign organization momentum and help to draw more conservative Republicans to his fundraisers. Forbes has run a barrage of television ads in the last few days, accusing Bush of reneging on a plan to cut Texas taxes...
...doesn't wait patiently for his turn to answer questions but jumps in to defend himself when one of his opponents attacks. And he is no longer too cautious to take a verbal swing at a rival, as he has proved of late by gleefully maligning McCain's economic plan of modest tax cuts and debt reduction as something only a liberal like Al Gore could love. Aides have also backed off. Rather than grilling Bush right up until air time before debates and sending him out on stage rattled, handlers have allowed the Governor plenty of time to rest...
...time he speaks, Bush has tried to hone down his message as much as possible to just two issues: tax cuts and education. By showing off his education-policy expertise, Bush hopes to lock in the advantage he has built over McCain with women voters. And by touting his plan to slash $483 billion in taxes over just five years, he believes he can solidify his support among traditional Republicans, especially those in tax-allergic New Hampshire, where Primary Day is just two weeks away. "There's a limited number of notes we can strike in the last few weeks...
...keeping with his maverick style, McCain is betting Bush is wrong about his own party. In McCain's economic plan, the details of which were released only last week, he calls for a tax cut roughly half the size of Bush's, with the rest of the budget surplus used to shore up Social Security and Medicare and to pay down the nation's $5 trillion debt. That's because McCain believes that the rank-and-file of his party now care more about being fiscally conservative and protecting entitlement programs than they do about getting big tax cuts...
McCain is right when he charges that the wealthy would reap big rewards under Bush's plan. Outside analysts predict that more than a third of the benefits from Bush's cuts would flow to Americans earning more than $300,000. But Bush is right too when he argues that lower- and middle-income Americans would see their taxes reduced more, in percentage terms, than the very rich. A single mother of two earning $31,300 a year would see her income-tax bill disappear. The benefits of McCain's plan are focused almost entirely on the middle class--single...