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What might have been, that most corrosive version of hindsight, should be the title of the Democrats' song of lamentation for this year's campaign. When George Bush and Michael Dukakis were struggling for the nominations of their parties a year ago, voters viewed the Democrats as more effective than the Republicans on some of the critical issues of peace and prosperity. But that advantage, according to a TIME poll last week, has all but dissipated. Even where the electorate still judges the Democrats favorably, Dukakis hardly benefits. The survey conducted by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman renders a harsh verdict...
Everyone knows that hindsight is always more perceptive than foresight, but perception, among other words, seems to be absent from Quayle's vocabulary. Of course, everyone regrets one past act or another, but it just isn't wise to answer a question about integrity and personal ethics with a comment about your early ambitions...
...course, hindsight is always 20-20, and it's easy for talk show commentators and editorial writers to condemn Rowan when they have never been the target of death threats the way he has. Yet if the handgun had not been so readily available, what would Rowan have done? Probably called the police, which is what hindsight (and these very commentators) say he should have done in the first place...
Money talks if nobody squawks. An economic determinist would not be surprised that the victors were the candidates with a built-in fund-raising advantage. But in hindsight it is striking that the overstuffed larders of Bush and Dukakis never became campaign issues. The Vice President, in fact, only narrowly edged Dole and Robertson in the greenback derby; the difference was that Bush husbanded his cash far more effectively. Dukakis cleverly deployed a ; bogus PAC-man issue to keep his underfunded rivals on the defensive. Political-action-committee funding may be a problem in congressional races...
...tactics that in hindsight seem like blunders would have seemed like brilliance had Gore caught fire. He failed because he never developed a visceral connection with voters. On the stump, he tried to convey passion by shouting, but the volume seemed turned up in all the wrong places. Even in his commercials he had trouble conveying sincerity; focus groups rated as worst those that showed Gore speaking directly to the camera...