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The purpose is to pre-empt another "natural" Republican issue.
Let me pre-empt them and go a step further by pointing out a basic question I've ignored: How does a change in the marriage contract affect a couple's decision about whether to get married in the first place?
The Nation 's cover story proposes a "bank holiday," à la FDR, to pre-empt further catastrophe in the global economy.
Next, the spot says the Republicans opposed Clinton on more police and anti-drug programs: another effort to pre-empt, or even reverse, a perennial Republican advantage.
Contemplating Saddam's anthrax-tipped warheads on NBC's Meet the Press , Rush Limbaugh answered his own question when he asked, should we "wait until he does it, or pre-empt it?"