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...every unpopular incumbent, down in the polls and prematurely labeled a lame duck, will use the lessons of Bill Clinton's comeback from political oblivion to give hope to themselves and their supporters. Yet, it is important to be aware of what lessons are learned. Clinton journeyed from the brink of resounding defeat to the verge of a landslide win neither by abandoning his principles nor by reflexive opposition. It was his embrace of Main Street concerns and mainstream values that gave him the confidence of the American people. If, as all the polls indicate, President Clinton is reelected...
TOPICCLINTON DOLE BODY LANGUAGE: Smug, self-confident looks: 3 Disdainful snickers: 6. Deep breaths/squaring jaw: 6 Full-blown guffaws: 4. Anxiously awaiting time for rebuttal: 3 Notetaking: 3. Smirks signalling disagreement: 4, including one shake of the head. Almost wandered off stage: 1. Notetaking: 4 STOCK PHRASES: Brink of/bridge to the new/21st century: 7 times. AWOL: 2 References to American families: 8 times, though never mentioned his own. Using panelists' first names: 11 times, including 3 references to Jason. Medicare, Medicaid, environment, education: 7 times California, host state of the debate: At least 7 times. Dole's $550 billion...
...brink of a resounding reelection--the first for a Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...brink of a resounding reelection--the first for a Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Arrayed against them was a burgeoning New Right in war paint. It wanted nothing less than to demolish the welfare state, including Social Security, and roll back federal powers over business and the states, while aggressively challenging the communist world, to the brink of war (and beyond). Its intellectual center was the National Review and its founder, William F. Buckley, who started the magazine in 1955 in part to reclaim conservatism from the cranks, conspiracy theorists and anti-Semites who had dragged it into the phosphorescent margins of American politics...