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However, many recall the disunity among the Democrats during the 1992 primary season, after which Clinton was able to defeat incumbent President George Bush...
Alexander, a multimillionaire lawyer whose ruthless intensity is nicely camouflaged by his courtly manner, carries a blue-ribbon resume. He served as Education Secretary to George Bush and earlier won acclaim as two-term Governor of Tennessee for reforming education and attracting high-paying jobs to his state. Alexander's stump speech touts a neopopulist plan to transfer $200 billion in federal programs ranging from welfare to law enforcement back to the states, communities, churches and families that handled those responsibilities before the New Deal...
...fact, campaign sources told TIME, Dole is taking up the mantle of the Bush campaign, which mortally wounded Dole's candidacy with negative ads in 1988. Late on a snowy Friday in February of that year, Governor John Sununu, running the Bush campaign in New Hampshire, personally delivered to WMUR-TV an ad called "Senator Straddle," which detailed Dole's flip-flops to devastating effect. Late on a snowy Friday last week, Governor Steve Merrill, a Sununu protege, personally delivered to WMUR an ad that attacked Alexander as "too liberal." The ad reminded voters that Alexander once proposed a state...
George and Barbara Bush are part Episcopacy--they met as a result of being born into the same social class. Bill and Hillary Clinton are part Mandarin--they met in the library of Yale Law School. It could be argued that the Clintons are the first White House occupants who are pure products of the meritocratic machinery that makes Mandarins. Both grew up in provincial obscurity without any connections to the big time. Both, by their early 20s, had been clearly marked for membership in the Establishment by virtue of their accumulation of golden educational credentials. They filled their Administration...
...held March 5. The former Tennessee governor hopes that his southern base will help him to a desperately-needed first-place primary finish. Dole also stumped in Georgia after reorganizing his struggling campaign. In a weekend shakeup, Dole demoted deputy campaign chairman Bill Lacy, while adding former 1992 Bush campaign pollster Fred Steeper to his staff...