Bill Schneider
Bill Schneider
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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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Democrats would love to make Mississippi the third state, after South Carolina and Alabama last year, where they've taken the statehouse back from the GOP,
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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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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.
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We've had tax cut proposals, one after the other, which is like saying to the American people, 'Would you like the government to give you some money,' and they're not popular. People are saying we don't need the money, we'd rather do something else with it, we'd rather accomplish some public purposes. Well, Bush is trying to hold the Republican Party together and sell it to a fairly skeptical electorate.
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Nothing happened. Why not? Well, 2000 -- that's why not. Because they were prepared, knowing what happened in Florida,
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It's very easy. Just sell everything, and keep what you might need in a motor home.