More women are running for office in the 2018 midterm elections than in any other election in American history. “The Daily” speaks to Senator Dianne Feinstein about what this moment shares with 1992, another record-breaking “Year of the Woman.” New York Times Read more »
The Ross Perot Myth
George H.W. Bush only lost his re-election bid in 1992 because a peculiar independent candidate from Texas, Ross Perot, drew more voters away from Bush than from Democratic candidate Bill Clinton. It’s one of the most enduring myths in U.S. presidential election history. CONT. FiveThirtyEight See also: Vengeful billionaire sinks President’s […] Read more »
Americans Don’t Trust Her. But Why?
A Clinton with a trust problem. We’ve seen that before. It was 1992, and doubts about Bill Clinton’s integrity, stoked by his marital infidelities and avoidance of the Vietnam War, were the biggest threat to his presidential campaign. Stanley Greenberg, a top Democratic campaign strategist, devised a secret plan to […] Read more »
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 […] Read more »
Americans Really Dislike Trump, Clinton. So Why Aren’t Third Parties Doing Better?
So many things about this election are unprecedented — and one of the most obvious is how much voters dislike the candidates. By now, everyone knows that this year features the two most unpopular presumptive major-party candidates on record. But in some ways, Americans’ dislike of the presidential candidates isn’t […] Read more »
Bill Clinton, O.J. Simpson, Clarence Thomas, and the Politics of 1990s Racial Backlash
The 1990s are being relitigated, and for the most part, coming off rather badly. It has taken place in the realm of politics, where Hillary Clinton has had to edge away from some of her husband’s policies, some of which have provoked angry confrontations on the campaign trail between the […] Read more »