Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Beyond that, Republican research shows voters to be bothered by Clinton's character--and that they draw some sort of connection between his perceived failings and a society-wide lack of civility and responsible citizenship. "Our democracy is fraying," explains a Democrat, New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. "The populace as a whole is less ordered, less restrained, less measured in its judgments." Voters expect their President to stand against such unravelings, and Clinton, the G.O.P. contends, is especially ill suited to the task because of the perception that he is or has been self-indulgent. It's not just...
...preserve American workers' standard of living. He promises to protect American borders against illegal immigration. Buchanan is so hard right that he is staking out a position on that nether region of the political map where right and left meet. Sometimes he sounds like a Rust Belt, union Democrat. "The [real] income of American workers has gone down 20% in 20 years. Now that is an outrage, especially when there are many Americans who made out like bandits at the same time,'' he bellowed into a radio-station mike last January...
Beating the Republicans still meant opposing a popular notion, though nobody on the Democratic side is saying out loud the words Pyrrhic victory. "It's a big victory," figures one senior White House official. "We'll pay for it later, of course." Or sooner-one day after the vote, G.O.P. radio ads were running in the states of six Democrats who supported the amendment when it came to a vote two years ago but changed sides this time. Since none of the six face re-election next year, they can brush off the attacks for now. But one Senate Democrat...
...well as Clinton's Whitewater troubles. The second is a rebellion from within his own party. The President's political advisers have been scanning the horizon since November for signs of a challenger. Yet even if party elders urged him to quit the race to make room for another Democrat, Clinton would almost certainly refuse. Says a source who knows Clinton well: "He could be at 20% approval in the polls, and he would still...
...Clinton's oldest friends and now a counselor to the President, "he feels quite hopeful. He's not frustrated or blue or disappointed. He has an ability to adapt, to figure out a way to get things done." In this case, getting things done means becoming the first Democrat to win two terms since Franklin Roosevelt. And if he succeeds, Clinton will have one more thing to figure out: how to turn victory's reward into something more than four years of frustration...