Bill Schneider
Bill Schneider
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It's been very difficult for her to raise money. In fact, it's been very difficult for all the candidates to raise money because most of it, the overwhelming bulk of it, is going to George W. Bush,
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If it turns out that George Bush doesn't get elected, once a party has run three times, like the Democrats after 1980, 1984 and 1988, they begin to see the light and say, 'We have to change,' ... Well if the Republicans lose this year ... they are going to be looking at John McCain and saying, 'Maybe he's got something to say, maybe we should listen to him a little bit harder,' and I think he's well-prepared for that outcome.
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Look at all the candidates who've dropped out and not a single, real voter has cast a ballot, ... Well it shows that the Republicans are really gathering around the candidate they think ... is a winner and that's George W. Bush. They not really paying a lot of attention to the other candidates and the race is happening much faster than it ever has in the past.
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George Bush moved into the lead at that convention and never lost it. How did he do it? He reminded voters that things were better under Ronald Reagan, so why would you ever want to change?
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Even a month ago, it was clear that he did not want to be considered, ... The governor prevailed on him.
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Reagan brought religious conservatives into the Republican Party.
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People thought the election still might be so close that he could make a decisive difference in some states, and he very nearly did. But the states weren't quite that close, the way Florida and New Hampshire were in 2000,
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Bill Clinton's 1992 convention is the most successful convention on record. Until that convention, Bill Clinton was running behind. Not only was he running behind, he was running third going into the Democratic convention in 1992. Perot was first, Bush was second, and Clinton seemed hopeless. The convention turned everything around,
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The Supreme Court ruled was that the Constitution requires that the allocation of the number of seats for each state has to be done based on an actual count,
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The problem is it's not very powerful in California or downstate New York, where most of the voters are.
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The problem is, there wasn't enough of them,
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But the economy is good and unemployment is the lowest it's been in 30 years. Polls show a gradual increase since the 1970s in the number of people who say that trade helps rather than hurts the nation's economy.
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But the court allows the states to use the estimated numbers ...for drawing the lines within each state to the determine what district every member of Congress and each state legislator represents.
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Bush is sinking, Clark is surging. Clark picked exactly the right moment to make his announcement.