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Letter From America: The 1994 Elections—Herbert Hoover Redux?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Benjamin R. Barber
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READERS OF GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION WILL NOT BE strangers to the events of November that led to a crushing defeat for the Democrats and the first all-Republican Congress in a very long time, if for no other reason than that they have read my colleague Harvey Mansfield's account in the winter issue. There was quite a lot of conservative gloating in November and December (and why not?). There is a little less now that the Gingrich revolution has begun to face up to the two dauntingly unalterable realities of American politics: the reality of the centre and the reality of divided government.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , 01 April 1995 , pp. 151 - 162
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1995

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References

1 The Raleigh News and Observer, 22 Nov. 1994, p. 4A.

2 Corn, David, ‘Where Evil Lurks’, The Nation, 25 07–l 08 1994, pp. 113–14Google Scholar; Editorial, ‘The Falwell Tape’, The WaU Street Journal, 19 July 1994, p. A 14.