Stacy, in your universe did Bill Clinton lose a presidential
election? In mine George H.W. Bush and Bob Dole got even lower
percentages of the vote than Clinton -- 37.5 percent and 41
percent, if I recall correctly. George W. Bush lost the popular
vote in 2000 and won just 50.7 percent of the vote as an incumbent
in wartime after 9/11 during a growing economy with low
unemployment. But that still was plenty for two terms.
In 1994, the best election for both the right and the
Republicans during the 1990s, the GOP was running against the
Clintons' tax increase, their big-government healthcare program,
their gun-grabbing, their midnight basketball approach to crime,
and their social liberalism. In 1992, 1996, and 1998 when the
campaign focused on Bill Clinton's character we lost. "Where is the
outrage?" Bob Dole asked. The outrage was in that alternate
universe where pointing out the fact that Clinton is a phony ever
won an election.
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