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...results may have primarily reflected the sway of personality politics, a phenomenon familiar to Americans but less known to Britons. Right up to the photo finish, the gentlemanly, mild-mannered Major bested Labour leader Neil Kinnock in popularity polls by 10 points. Although Kinnock delivered a slick performance that outshone Major's on the campaign trail, he could not shake the widely held perception that he is a rather ruthless opportunist who -- Bill Clinton, take note -- is not entirely to be trusted. Polls indicated that if Labour's shadow chancellor, the brainy, witty John Smith, had been party leader, Labour...
...post-election New York Times editorial, Anthony Lewis called Kinnock's record "historical baggage," writing that "perhaps it will just take time, and a new party leader to giver Labor the modern look of a European social democratic party...
...terms of policy, Bill Clinton, who calls for a more active government than Reagan and Bush have, sounds at least a little like Kinnock (though not as much as Joe Biden...
...While Kinnock would have raised taxes on the middle class, Clinton offers tax cuts. And where Kinnock calls for expanding a nationalized health system, Clinton favors a much more conservative plan which would broaden employers' burdens for providing employee health care...
...while questions of Kinnock's judgement stemmed form past political blunders, Clinton's come from largely unsubstantiated allegations about improper personal behavior. (The British aren't as puritan as we are. When it came out last month that Paddy Ashdown, the liberal Democratic leader, had committed adultery, his popularity ratings actually swelled...