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Article: CLINTON'S STUMP SPEECH STILL NEEDS SOME POLISH.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- April 30, 1992
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Byline: William Safire
Old speechwriters wait for the speech - one that a politician knows by heart and believes moves his audiences - to see if candidates grasp the dynamic of their own campaigns.
Voters don't get to see it in full on television. George Bush has only just hired Peggy Noonan to put his together. But Bill Clinton has been out on the stump hammering his message out, and The New York Times published the text just before his Pennsylvania victory.
"We have had it their way for 11 years," he says, picking up speed after a slow, statistical start, "and we're going downhill as a nation. The middle class is collapsing. Poverty is ...