How Bill Clinton’s party has changed since he was first elected president

When Bill Clinton steps up to the lectern Tuesday night to make the case for his wife’s candidacy, it will be precisely 24 years and 10 days since he accepted his party’s nomination himself in New York City. In an era when having a long political track record is often detrimental, Clinton’s got one of the longest. …

The General Social Survey also allows us to see how attitudes on particular policy issues have changed since 1992. It can be hard to identify subjects that have been consistently worth polling about over that long a period of time; policy fights evolve, and the polling on them does, too.

We looked at four issues that were in the GSS in both 1994 and 2014 for comparison. CONT.

Philip Bump, Washington Post

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