The white men in suits move in. (Democratic party split by racial tensions, lack of unanimity about party's platform for 1992) (American Survey)

Economist (US), The, May, 1991

THE Democratic Leadership Council started its convention in Cleveland on May 7th in a political climate altered by George Bush's heart trouble. John Breaux, a Democratic senator from Louisiana, who had played tennis with the president shortly before Mr Bush felt unwell, was engagingly honest. His own heart, he said, now beat faster, and-notwithstanding the sincere prayers they offered for the president's health-so must those of the six possible presidential candidates who paraded their wares in Cleveland. At the end of the convention, however, the future of the party was as murky as it had been at the beginning.

The DLC was formed by a group of mainly (but not exclusively) southern Democrats after the debacle of the 1984 presidential election. In the eyes of...

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