The President's overwhelming re-election victory reflects more than just Bill Clinton's return to his centrist, New Democratic roots, and more than his opponents' failure to stake out alternative positions. Instead the Clinton victory represents a fresh and indeed a novel approach to politics that could well change the way both major parties appeal to the electorate in the future. Congressional Democrats, who failed to retake Congress after losing control in 1994, would do well to study the differences between their approach and the President's if they are to regain majority-party status.
President Clinton won not only because he recognized that the...
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