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Blue Dogs Bowles

Carolina Democrats divided. Also: Clinton’s tortured legacy. Plus: First Bush veto faces veto.
p> TORTURED POLITICS br> Former Clinton ambassador to the U.N. Security Council Nancy Soderberg revealed more about the way her administration did its job than anything about Iraq last night when she appeared on Chris Matthews ’ “Hardball.” In discussing President Bush’s Thursday speech to the U.N., she said that his references to children being tortured by Saddam and parents having to watch were obviously inserted into the speech after a lot of “polling.” /p>

In fact, the Bush team did no polling in preparing his speech. Whereas Clinton, for any major policy speech, would have at least two polls prepared beforehand as well as have a focus group watch the speech live. “Nobody did polling better than we did,” said a former Clinton Capitol Hill liaison. “There’s no way Bush’s people could be doing what we were doing.”

p> BLUE DEMOCRATS br> A year ago, former Clinton White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles wanted nothing to do with the North Carolina race to fill the seat of retiring Sen. Jesse Helms
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