Word: election
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effects of such insipid politicking have been obvious and immediate. The stock market has fallen more than 50 points since election day, as investors are unsure if the President-elect even has a policy to deal with the deficit. I must pinch myself to believe that throughout 12 months of the campaign, we did not force Bush to enunciate an economic and fiscal policy, or even, apparently, to think very seriously about one. Perhaps he'll find one in a fish belly while he's in Florida this week...
There is, to be sure, the counterargument that Democratic blunders kicked away a race that otherwise would have marked the party's triumphant return to the White House. "We should not have lost this election," insists Texas agriculture commissioner Jim Hightower, one of the party's leading populists. "By God, it's awful we could not beat George Bush and Dan Quayle. They were perfect for us." This widespread view stems directly from the party's consistent strength at all other levels of government. As political scientist Nelson Polsby puts it, "The only thing wrong with the Democratic Party...
This bastion of the old Confederacy has been so willing to re-elect incumbents that Congressman Trent Lott campaigned for the Senate by reminding voters of the seriousness of the occasion: "This is only the second time in 40 years that Mississippi has elected a ((new)) Senator." To replace Democrat John Stennis, 87, who is retiring after 41 years in the office, the smooth, natty Lott won a tight race against a contrastingly folksy Democratic Congressman, Wayne Dowdy. Lott's victory gives the state two G.O.P. Senators for the first time since Reconstruction...
...help of the special interests that were supposed to burden them at the national level. And then, in 1986, something striking happened: black voters, many of them registered by the Jackson campaign of 1984, turned out in larger percentages than their white counterparts, defying historical patterns, and helped elect liberal whites in two key states, Alabama and California. This, with white liberal victories in other states, returned control of the Senate to Democrats...
These lines of reasoning have so lowered expectations for the Bush presidency that some Washington insiders are predicting the briefest honeymoon in history, a gridlock of indecision, even the inevitability of a one-term presidency. In short, President-elect Bush appears perfectly positioned to exceed expectations yet again...