Mr Clinton, meet Mr Kinnock. (Democrats learn from Labor Party loss)

Economist (US), The, August, 1992

Bill Clinton commands a substantial lead over George Bush in the presidential election polls. After the publicity of the Democratic Convention wears off, this lead will drop off. Clinton and his advisors do not intend to repeat the pattern of the British Labor Party, which led the polls but lost anyway.

If the Democrats should grow complacent, Britain's Labour Party has the remedy

SINCE the Democratic Party's convention last month, and Ross Perot's farcical departure from the presidential race, Bill Clinton has been running far ahead of George Bush in the opinion polls. No doubt there are many reasons for this--including some (such as having had the lion's share of television time in recent weeks) that the Democrats know will fade. Other reasons, they trust, will...

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