Word: democratizing
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...another way too: having the governorship helps parties organize for presidential campaigns. And Americans' appetite for Republicans in the Governor's mansion may betray a hunger for a Republican in the White House--a Republican like, say, Texas Governor George W. Bush, who is expected to whip his Democratic opponent this year and, according to polls, would beat Al Gore in a head-to-head presidential race. Since his election as Governor in 1994, Bush has avoided the mistakes that doomed his father: he has learned and relearned domestic policy, moved to the center and played down issues dear...
Clinton has been on that program for weeks now. In recent days he has seemed to aides almost immune to personal embarrassment, fortified by the very fact of his survival and greeting every House Democrat with a fistful of polls showing that his support is holding up. Asked after the vote Thursday what he could do to turn things around, Clinton seemed almost meditative in his detachment. "It is not in my hands," he said. "It is in the hands of Congress and the people of this country--ultimately in the hands of God. There is nothing...
Here's why: When Bill Clinton was elected President in 1992, there were 28 Democratic Governors. Now there are just 17, and they cover only 25% of the country's population. With 18 G.O.P. incumbents running this year, Republicans will at worst maintain their count of 32 governorships, and probably will pick up at least three more. And they'll do it in some improbable places. In Connecticut, which has recently leaned toward Democrats, incumbent John Rowland is running 40 points ahead of Barbara Kennelly, daughter of the state's most powerful Democratic don. Colorado may elect its first Republican...
...Democrat in Chief, of course, has more immediate concerns. In the past three months, the chances of the Democrats' retaking the House have gone from plausible to zilch. The President's problems demoralized many Democratic supporters in August and September and revved up Clinton-hating conservatives. That's especially scary because of the "six-year itch": while the sitting President's party has suffered losses in every midterm save one since the Civil War, elections in the sixth year of a presidency are especially crippling. Since 1938, sixth-year elections have produced an average loss of 44 seats...
Ironically, it is Democrats who now think they can capitalize on impeachment by appealing to potential voters turned off by the scandal and motivated to end it by showing up at the polls. "This is turning against the Republicans," a senior House Democrat said last week, adjuring members to vote against the G.O.P. impeachment plan. Gephardt is pushing Democrats to stay on the message that "if you want two more years of investigations, vote for them." And a handful of Democrats have already picked up steam by standing against G.O.P. overzealousness. In New York, Representative Charles Schumer has pulled into...