Steve Daley

As usual, the national debate swirling around President-elect Bill Clinton is focused on the marginal stuff. Turn on your local talk-radio station and what do you hear? Lintheads on both...

If you`re filling out a resume for the Clinton administration, the job you want is secretary of symbolism. If you get it, be prepared to work full time. Bill Clinton...

Who will speak for the Republicans? Cast into the political darkness when 62 percent of the voters looked elsewhere for a president, the GOP is auditioning voices for the future....

America rewired its political system this year, plugging into cable television, watching its candidates come through ''unfiltered'' on talk shows, call-in shows and shows where a person running for the...

Who is he, this large, talkative Southerner who might be president? Bill Clinton has campaigned ably and everywhere in the 12 months since he declared his candidacy in a race...

The first story in this election campaign turned out to be the only one that truly mattered. Nearly a year ago, voters in New Hampshire were talking about their economic...

Good news, America. Only one debate left. In case you hadn`t noticed, presidential debates in the last days of a campaign are viewed as national treasures. You can carp about...

Ross Perot is why we have politics. He is a living, preening argument for political parties and the New Hampshire primary and all the much-maligned foofaraw the pedagogue class complains...

At this point in the campaign, reality seldom intrudes on presidential politics. The television ads are feckless exercises in the manipulation of statistics and images; the TV interviews variously involve...

Apparently, Labor Secretary Lynn Martin has been able to clear the decks in her demanding job inside the Bush Cabinet. The vital issues in her department are well in hand,...