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Why Clinton Won |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL FEATURE--THE MEANING OF THE ELECTIONS |
| Author: Morton C. Blackwell |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1997 |
| Size: 1,880 Words, 14,356 Characters |
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The better man lost to the better candidate.That's my thumbnail analysis of the 1996 presidential election. Every poll I saw that measured trust showed, by a wide margin, that voters believed Bob Dole was more trustworthy. Bill Clinton beat Dole even though poll after poll showed a majority of American voters believed President Clinton is not an honest man.vbcrlf Surely this is a first at the presidential level since public opinion surveys began. But similar results have been common at lower political levels for generations. A mayor of Boston was once reelected while sitting in a jail cell. Louisiana voters often elect audacious rogues over spotless reformers.vbcrlf All politics is not local; all ...
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... get very few people to feel intensely that it's important to them personally that you be elected, you're toast.vbcrlf * If in the final weeks of the campaign you appear to be desperate and on the defensive, you're toast.vbcrlfIf you fail to apply any of the lessons listed above but still win, it's only because the other side has troubles, too. vbcrlf
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