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Some Democrats gleefully predict that the GOP that emerges from the fight will be badly split, opening the way for a Democratic lock on the White House...
Clinton did run and win again in 1990, and that same year he became chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council, a centrist organization that gave him a platform for addressing the national press as to what kind of Democratic candidate might finally break the long Republican lock on the White House. The picture -- surprise! -- was a kind of idealized self-portrait: a nontraditionalist who could win back the alienated white middle class by repudiating tax-and-spend, something-for-nothing policies and stressing / economic growth to be achieved by heavy government investment in job-creating activities...
McKay, who said yesterday he quit the council last year because of "grid-lock," said that holding a campus wide election for the chair would go a long way towards improve the group's image...
This is an updated twist on the "electoral-lock" phenomenon, which worked to the G.O.P.'s advantage since Richard Nixon's 1968 victory. Demographic trends and the distribution of electoral votes gave each Republican ticket a head start in amassing 270 electoral votes. With the Republicans dominating the West and most of the South in every election except 1976, Democratic candidates had the challenge of winning nearly all the larger closely contested states elsewhere...
Vice president Dan Quayle has been more solid in his opposition to abortion. But he's done his own share of flip-flopping. After a highly publicized attack on television character Murphy Brown's decision to bear a child out of wed lock, Quayle now insists he has no problems with single mothers...