Word: kinnock
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...camps have been interacting less formally for years. Al From, co-founder of the Democratic Leadership Council, where Clinton nurtured his new-Democrat ideas, took some reformist cues from Neil Kinnock, one of Blair's predecessors as Labour Party chief. Key Blair aides watched Clinton campaigning close up in 1992, and after the election Blair, then a little-known backbencher, visited the Clinton team to see how it was done...
Politicians often succumb to the constant pressure for a stirring personal anecdote. During his abortive run for the presidency in 1987, solidly suburban Senator Joseph Biden appropriated scenes from the coal-mining boyhood of British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock. To make a point about welfare dependency, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said his sister was once so dependent on handouts she would get "mad when the mailman [was] late with her check." In fact, she worked most of her life...
...chair of the committee, Sen. Joseph Biden, was also a presidential aspirant until he made one of the most famous and obvious mistakes in campaign history. Taking rhetoric directly from the speeches of Neil Kinnock of Britain's failing Labor Party was a sign of weakness in itself--still more when the world heard about...
Less successful were attempts to convince voters that the party had shifted from radical socialism to more centrist policies. During the campaign, Kinnock dismissed some of his old positions as "errors of judgment," among them his insistence on unilateral nuclear disarmament and the renationalization of some state assets sold off by the Conservatives. Why the switch? "We lost three elections," said Jack Cunningham, Labour's campaign coordinator. "That is good enough reason to change policy." Many voters were left doubting Labour's sincerity. "Labour jettisoned its ideological baggage without acquiring any new ideas distinctively its own," says Anthony King...
...Britain refused to follow the European Community's lead. The recession was as bad there as it was on the Continent, and British voters were just as disgruntled. Even so, at the end of a four-week election campaign, they still found the Labour Party and its leader Neil Kinnock unconvincing. They stuck with the Conservative Party of Prime Minister John Major, giving it a majority of 21 seats in the 651-seat House of Commons. The Conservatives took 41.9% of the popular vote, a slight decrease from the 42.3% they won in 1987, when Margaret Thatcher last...