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Political reality will be the strongest force keeping the Democrats from moving too far left. The midterm elections of a President's second term usually hand a big loss to the President's party. But in addition to this cautionary precedent, the Democrats know that if they do regain power, it will be by a margin so thin that they won't pass anything without the support of their moderates--and probably a few Republicans. "We're going to have to run the place the way Sam Rayburn ran it," says Michigan's John Dingell, one of the few House...
...these are the things that we worry about here in our comfortable college. We worry that we'll be placed in a cramped double; that two great courses are offered in the same time slot; that we won't break the mean on the first chem midterm. These indeed are trivial worries of students who have no real troubles. We have our health, friends and family; we have every reason to be happy. One might say, in fact, that we resemble Job as he first appears, as prosperous and content, before tragedy strikes...
Since the disastrous 1994 midterm elections, when his party lost control of Congress for the first time since 1946, Clinton has found a niche in the center of the political spectrum and surprisingly stayed there...
Since the disastrous 1994 midterm elections, when his party lost control of Congress for the first time since. 1946, Clinton has found a niche in the center of the political spectrum and surprisingly stayed there...
Will the historic midterm election of 1994, which gave Republicans control of Congress for the first time in 40 years, be seen in retrospect as the key to the first re-election of a Democratic President in 52 years (since F.D.R.'s last term)? In the months leading up to the '94 election, especially with the collapse of his ambitious health-care reform, Clinton seemed like "dead meat," to use the dainty Beltway terminology. At first the Republican revolution made Clinton's doom seem even more certain. But it hasn't worked out that way. Many have noted the irony...