Clinton

[Greg Nowell]

Part of the analytic problem of Clinton vis a vis
predecessor presidents like Nixon is that Clinton has
the first Republican congress in over 40 years to
contend with.

I think another angle on this whole argument is that we
are better off with a democratic house of
representatives than we are with a democratic
presidency.  I think that holds for the republicans
too.  They had their Repub presidents like Eisenhower,
Nixon, Reagan, et al, but they didn't really dominate
the emotive aura of national politics till they had the
congress.  Even Reagnism was blunted when, in 1982, his
de facto majority (consisting of Repubs + Southern
dems) evaporated due to democratic gains sleshwere
(which is why Gorsuch, Watts were dumped, etc).

So if I had to choose, in the next election, I'd dems
retook the house and the repubs retook the White House.

--
Gregory P. Nowell
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science, Milne 100
State University of New York
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Albany, New York 12222

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