This article is wrong: The Clinton Brand still ranks right up there with the Hitler Brand and the Stalin Brand. Geez!
Very interesting, illuminating piece of journalism here. Not surprisingly, from a foreign newspaper.
Massive coronation might turn into massive coronary.
Bill Clinton says his ties to Alibaba firm in China don't conflict with Hillary Clinton campaign
“As the most successful Democratic president of recent times...”
That’s like being the best hockey player in all of Peru.
... Quick! Where's my Fainting Couch?
These media liberals need to learn that Brand Clinton was never as popular as advertised. I remember once seeing an article proclaiming that Slick Willie was more popular than Reagan based on poll data. But the electoral reality doesn’t support that.
Reagan won both of his elections with an outright majority of the popular vote. In 1980, he won a majority despite the race being a three-way contest. He won re-election in 1984 by an enormous popular landslide. In contrast, Clinton failed to win a majority of the popular vote in either of his elections. In 1996, he couldn’t win a majority despite a good economy and a weak, aging opponent.
Reagan won electoral college landslides in both of his elections. 44 states to 6 in his first election and 49 to 1 in his re-election. Clinton won okay electoral college majorities, but nothing more, and it’s quite likely he wouldn’t have even won in 1992 without Perot.
Reagan had coattails. He swept the GOP into control of the Senate for the first time in a quarter of a century. He narrowed what at the time was a massive Democrat majority in the House to create a situation where conservative Southern Dems and the GOP created a working majority for him. His party didn’t suffer appreciable losses until the mid-term elections of his second term. Clinton had zero coattails and the voters creamed his party in the first mid-terms after his election, putting the GOP in charge of both houses for the first time in forty years.
Reagan’s VP was easily elected president in 1988, Clinton’s VP was defeated in 2000.
Case closed.
The Clinton Brand is highly overrated.
mrszip
Now THERE'S a high hurdle to overcome.
he opened doors across the world.
Yeah -- like the ones he opened to al Qaeda.