Democracy's feast: elections in America by Herbert F. Weisberg

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Clinton was able to solidify his standing, based on his ability to project empathy for the public. The Election Results The polls throughout the 1992 fall campaign showed Clinton with a lead. The Bush campaign was buoyed in the final week of the campaign when USA Today published a poll showing Bush's standing improving. But careful inspection showed that the change partly reflected a redefinition of the base of the numbers, looking at probable voters rather than all respondents in the sample. Bush's standing seemed to go down again a couple of days later when the special prosecutor's indictment of Caspar Weinberger brought the Iran-contra scandal of the 1980s back into the headlines.

7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Logit Analysis of Perception of Party Difference on Policy Matters (Republicans or Democrats vs. 8. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. 2. 3. 4. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. 2. 3. 4. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. S. election, including journalistic accounts and several edited volumes. This book is distinctive in terms of pulling together the views of several election analysts based primarily on the National Election Study (NES) 1992 surveys. The books written immediately after the election have to rely on quick analyses of media polls and exit polls, both of which are much more limited in the questions they can ask about popular attitudes.

The Super Tuesday primaries were concentrated in the South. Southerner Clinton won six of the eight primaries. Tsongas won the primary in his home state of Massachusetts that day, along with the Rhode Island primary, but he suspended his race after poor showings the following week in the Michigan and Illinois primaries. Brown stayed in the race until the end, but his only other victory was in the mid-March Connecticut primary. 2), and after the last primary on 2 June had amassed enough delegates to claim the nomination.

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