>But Gore strategists contend that the major fissures in the party have been
>generally resolved during Clinton's tenure in the White House.
>"If you think of the last eight years, the party in government worked
>through all the biggies," a Gore operative said. "It worked through trade;
>we are a free-trade party. We worked through welfare reform; we are the
>party that reformed welfare. We worked through fiscal discipline, because we
>are the party that got rid of this deficit. So a bunch of the cleavages, if
>you go back to '92, actually have been settled by the process of governing."
Doug