Category: Elections
Has Bill Clinton Changed the Democratic Party?
Presidential candidate Bill Clinton says he wants change. The word “change” is in his every other sentence, which may be the biggest legacy of Ross Perot’s foray into…
Murphy Brown and Dan Quayle
The firestorm over Vice President Dan Quayle’s speech about morals, the Los Angeles riots, and Murphy Brown proves that he touched a tender nerve. The feminists and their…
Helping George Bush to Understand the Feminists
President George Bush has taken his lumps this year, but some good news has appeared on the horizon. The economy is picking up, the incumbent conservatives won in…
Let’s Repudiate Argument by Epithet
Ever since George Bush’s stunning come-from-behind victory over Michael Dukakis, we have been deluged by the media with attacks on what they call the “negative advertising” of his…
Lessons of the Elections
Nothing is certain but death and taxes, says the old adage. But political consultants who are mapping strategy for the big presidential election year of 1992 should face…
Lee Atwater: New Myths and Old Realities
With their potential presidential candidates in disarray under the lash of George Bush’s 90 percent popularity rating in the polls, the liberals have grabbed Lee Atwater’s death like…
Look For the Union Label
The 1990 Alabama gubernatorial election may have done to the National Education Association (NEA) what the Bush-Dukakis 1988 election did to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). It…
Abortion Lessons From the ’90 Election
Abortion was not the “silver bullet” in the 1990 election that some were predicting a few months ago. But it is a knife with an edge that cuts…
Will California Republicans Offer a Choice Not an Echo?
California is a trend setter for all sorts of movements that have swept across our nation from no-fault divorce to the tax-cutting Proposition 13. Now the California Republican…