Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...history says it won't happen that way. The last relatively serious independent to run for president was John Anderson in 1980. Anderson didn't get any electoral votes himself, and he didn't affect significantly Reagan's landslide over Carter...
Despite Bush's handicaps and Perot's irrelevence, Clinton does face some obstacles himself. Take religion, for example. The last time a Baptist (like Clinton) took on an Episcopal (like Bush) for the presidency was 1980, when Carter, a Baptist, got whupped by Reagan, and Episcopal...
...younger Democratic challengers have a poor record against older Republican incumbents. The last three times this match-up has occurred ended in disasters for Democrats--like Mondale's loss to Reagan in 1984, McGovern's to Nixon in 1972, and Stevenson's to Eisenhower in 1956. The last Democrat to succeed in this situation was Franklin Roosevelt '04, who beat Hoover...
...politics isn't just a means to policy. As Clinton has shown, it can be a means of pulling the country together. Ronald Reagan and Lee Atwater taught Bush the politics of division, wedge issues and smear. But when times are tough, the nation will coalesce only around a message of promise. Clinton rejected the hatred of rap singer Sister Souljah but stands poised to garner a larger percentage of Black voters than even Mondale. He rejected the redistributionalism of the left but has drawn some of its most prominent intellectuals to his ranks. His rhetoric, at base, inspires inclusion...
Bush, and Reagan before him, assiduously avoided dealing with the deficit by blaming a spendthrift Congress. Even as they assailed tax-and-spend Democrats, they submitted budget after budget with huge deficits and contributed to the current economic malaise...