presidential election The 1996 presidential election was boring because its outcome was not expected to bring any significant changes. Politics will be interesting again if a leader emerges who has a program and a vision for putting American affairs in order.
Doing a crossword, says puzzle creator Reagle, "feeds into a basic human need to figure things out." And you can't help being astonished at the diabolical cleverness of the people who create them: The day after the 1996 presidential election, the clue to a two-word answer read, "Today's headlines." "ELECTED" was the second word. And both "[Bill Clinton]" and "BOBDOLE" fit the first. Before that, we meet a bunch of other puzzle-solvers and people who cater to them. Among the latter is Merl Reagle, the chubby creator of many of the Times (and the Sunday Chronicle magazine) puzzles, and we get to watch as he composes a crossword (haven't you always wondered how they did that?), this one on the theme of "wordplay." The task seems to combine geometry, songwriting-both the words and the music...
Presidential candidates can boost their opponents' campaigns through politically unwise actions or the inability to affect public opinion. In the 1996 presidential election, Republican candidate Bob Dole failed to alter perceptions of accuracy, fairness and relevancy in the party's questioning of Bill Clinton's character. Clinton capitalized on this failure to improve his standing with American voters.
A year ago, Barack Obama was elected president of the United States in the first decisive presidential election since 1996. He has been in office for only 10 months, and with the help of large majorities in the House and Senate has accomplished much in difficult times.
John Zogby stepped into the national political spotlight when he called the 1996 presidential election precisely and was the only pollster to do so. Both before and since he has polled for news media, corporations, non-profit organizations and political campaigns. This book represents a distillation of what he has learned about the American people over decades - and how he expects them to behave in the future. He is a perceptive and thoughtful social commentator. Mr. Zogby's writing style is open and upbeat. He writes, "What is the [American] common denominator? ... it's our shared values We roll this way. We roll that way, but our values are steady... They are who we are; who we want to be" In this way, he uses both the social observer's eye and his own experience living what can best ...
The 1996 presidential election represented a clash between different religious traditions. Political party coalitions continue to retain ethnocultural and economic elements, but new religious divisions between "modernist" and "traditionalist" factions are superceding the older categories. In 1996, the Democratic Party attracted minorities and modernist liberals, while conservative white Protestants and religious traditionalists tended to vote Republican. These trends suggest cultural values will continue to become politically significant.
The board discussed the impact of Black business on the economy, the meaning of the flat tax, and the outlook for the Nov 1996 presidential election. The inaccuracy of the US Census picture of Black business was analyzed. Plans for a reduced affirmative action world must be implemented now.
AS A TEENAGER of the early Nineties, I can recall classmates repeating the same argument about their marijuana use: "Bill Clinton smoked it, and look how he turned out!" At the time, many opponents of Clinton argued that he embodied a contradiction of messages to America's youth regarding drug use. But sure enough, by the time the 1996 presidential election came around, Republican nominee for president Robert Dole was able to argue that teen drug use had doubled during President Clinton's first term in office. Was Clinton to blame as Dole implied? That debate was never resolved.
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