Word: unpopularities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...succeed in 1996, Clinton and his consultants would have to win two campaigns: the first against the President's own unpopular and liberal image, the second against his eventual opponent, Bob Dole. Only by achieving victory in the first war would they acquire the weapons to fight the second. In the end, they assembled a big-spending war machine fueled by "soft-money" donations to the Democratic National Committee and founded on a rocklike faith in opinion polls. The surveys were used not just to gauge voter attitudes but also to shape Clinton's arguments, test and refine his television...
...unpopular ballot proposition can be helped by a popular candidate, but an unpopular candidate cannot ride a popular proposition. Last week, on his swing through California, Dole embraced as his own the popular Proposition 209, which would roll back affirmative action. The result was to depress 209 briefly and leave Dole lagging in the polls...
Relying on the unpopular images of Republican extremism in the traditionally Democratic state, Kerry connected Weld to Washington Republicans...
...full moon, must be excused because they are uncontrollable. Yet, President Clinton's now-recalled ad betrayed not only his deepest principles, but the very methods he used to achieve his present position of political power. It is important to remember that two short years ago, Clinton was so unpopular that Congressional candidates were begging the White House to not have the president come anywhere near their state. Now Clinton is leading in polls in states like Arizona, which last voted for a Democrat named Harry S Truman...
...years to come, every unpopular incumbent, down in the polls and prematurely labeled a lame duck, will use the lessons of Bill Clinton's comeback from political oblivion to give hope to themselves and their supporters. Yet, it is important to be aware of what lessons are learned. Clinton journeyed from the brink of resounding defeat to the verge of a landslide win neither by abandoning his principles nor by reflexive opposition. It was his embrace of Main Street concerns and mainstream values that gave him the confidence of the American people. If, as all the polls indicate, President Clinton...