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That may be happening under our noses. A new party system may be awaiting the Age of Somebody a few years from now, someone who may be so appealingly revolutionary as to make this moment in retrospect seem blindingly quiescent...
Could dole have run differently? Was victory ever in the cards? Perhaps if he had been himself, the difference too few Americans perceived may have resonated more profoundly. At each downturn in his fortunes, Dole promised that "from now on, you'll see the real Bob Dole." In retrospect it seems that the real Bob Dole emerged only once: when he resigned from the Senate. It was a moment when he could have tacked many ways. He was fond of saying that "in a record of more than 12,000 votes, you can make a case for just about anything...
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...
...strong ideological position. He has no large popular following. He has no natural campaign skills that cry out to be exploited. Although an admirable person in many ways, Dole is not, in short, the end point of any rational selection process for a major party's presidential nomination. In retrospect, the Republicans seem to have anointed Dole out of such admirably unpragmatic, old-fashioned motives as honoring achievement and deference to seniority that were thought to be long dead in the Grand Old Party. Which brings...
...retrospect, it seems inevitable that Clinton would sign. And not just to take away from Bob Dole one of the few issues the Republican contender had been counting on to gain traction in the campaign. Political strategists figured a veto might cost the President about five points in the polls, but Clinton could endure that with plenty to spare. A veto, however, would have repudiated the entire moderate, New Democrat stance--champion of family values, balanced budgets, more cops on the streets--that Clinton had been cultivating so assiduously since the rout of the Democrats in the 1994 elections...