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...Dean, about to become the new leader of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), will occupy a special perch last held by Haley Barbour, the current governor of Mississippi and Republican chairman following Bill Clinton’s first presidential victory. A wily lobbyist, Reagan adviser and honeysuckle political hit-man, Barbour rose to the challenge of a Democratic Congress and a Democratic White House, and became an indispensable part of setting the winning 1993 and 1994 GOP strategy of hardline anti-Clinton opposition...
...former Barbour aide told me: “The thinking was that if we set a tone that encouraged bipartisanship, what would we be dealing with? Left-wing legislation with a patina of bipartisan cooperation. And what would be the result? More Democrat [sic] victories. We needed to show that Clinton and his party were governing in the wrong direction and therefore Republicans stubbornly opposed him and [the Democrats] couldn’t be trusted. It teed us up perfectly...
...results of last week's off-year elections gave both parties something to cheer about. Republicans accelerated their conquest of the nation's governorships, particularly in the South, with victories by Representative Ernie Fletcher in Kentucky and Haley Barbour in Mississippi. The Democrats gained control of the New Jersey legislature and saw John Street win re-election as mayor of Philadelphia. Together, the results sketched in sharp relief the emerging political landscape. The country remains closely divided between the two parties, with partisanship more pronounced, and the South, in particular, becoming hostile terrain for Democrats...
...embarrassing affair with a state contractor and the slogan of governor-elect, Ernie Fletcher, was to "clean up the mess in Frankfort," the state capital. But it was more than local issues at issue in Kentucky. It's a good sign for Bush that both Fletcher and Barbour invited him to the state while national Democrats from Ted Kennedy to Hillary Clinton to the 10 presidential candidates were kept at bay by the Democrats running in Kentucky and Mississippi...
...only comfort for Democrats is that out-of-power parties won big in the 2002 governors races, leading to such bizarre spectacles as Democrats taking the governor's mansions in Wyoming and Oklahoma while Massachusetts elected a Mormon Republican businessman as governor. The Fletcher and Barbour victories were part of a troubling wave for fiscally-challenged governors...