Pundits debate whether Democratic candidates should adopt a "populist" or "New Democrat" agenda and approach. Both sides point to Bill Clinton's successes for support—and both are correct. Clinton and strategists like James Carville and Stan Greenberg understood the necessity of a populist appeal—their campaign slogan was "putting people first" and steering the campaign away from social issues like race and toward economic ones. Contained within this vision was a "New Democrat" agenda that included ideas like welfare reform and reinventing government that broke with recent liberal orthodoxy.