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Lessons From '92 Offer Hope to GOP
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Dec 28, 2008 05:25am |
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| Category | General |
| Media | Newspaper - Wall Street Journal |
| News Date | Friday, December 26, 2008 11:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A young and popular Democratic president is preparing to take over the White House, while a lame-duck Republican named Bush heads for the exits. Slumping Republicans are in despair; they've seen Democrats win majorities of almost 80 seats in the House and 15 in the Senate.
A snapshot of today's political landscape? Yes. But it's also a precise description of the predicament Republicans faced at the end of 1992, when Bill Clinton, not Barack Obama, was preparing to take over the presidency.
As low as the GOP was after that 1992 election, within two years it had roared back to take control of the House for the first time in half a century. The point is simple: Tattered as Republicans look today, it's easy to forget that they've been here before, and not so long ago, and recovered fairly quickly. |
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