Bill Schneider
Bill Schneider
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Bush is sinking, Clark is surging. Clark picked exactly the right moment to make his announcement.
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He's just going to be talking about the good stuff.
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He is the owner and editor of (a prominent) investment magazine, ... Staying in the race would not be a good investment.
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We've had tax cut proposals, one after the other, which is like saying to the American people, 'Would you like the government to give you some money,' and they're not popular. People are saying we don't need the money, we'd rather do something else with it, we'd rather accomplish some public purposes. Well, Bush is trying to hold the Republican Party together and sell it to a fairly skeptical electorate.
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Bill Clinton's 1992 convention is the most successful convention on record. Until that convention, Bill Clinton was running behind. Not only was he running behind, he was running third going into the Democratic convention in 1992. Perot was first, Bush was second, and Clinton seemed hopeless. The convention turned everything around,
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The Supreme Court ruled was that the Constitution requires that the allocation of the number of seats for each state has to be done based on an actual count,
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Reagan brought religious conservatives into the Republican Party.
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People thought the election still might be so close that he could make a decisive difference in some states, and he very nearly did. But the states weren't quite that close, the way Florida and New Hampshire were in 2000,
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Even a month ago, it was clear that he did not want to be considered, ... The governor prevailed on him.
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This primary process ended earlier than ever before,
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They're selling something. And the convention is the last chance they get to have the undivided attention of a national audience.
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Now I think New York is symbolic of the nation's division.
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The problem is it's not very powerful in California or downstate New York, where most of the voters are.
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The problem is, there wasn't enough of them,