[Austin Willard Wright]

Well...our memories are different. I don't remember that the liberals were mad at Clinton in 1994. Clinton was giving them everything they wanted such as pressing for socialized medicine and abandoning his pledge to make a middle class tax cut. This should have motivated them...but for some reason it didn't at least not as much as it motivated conservatives.

In 1996, the liberal base was *more* motivated (and conservatives were *more* dis-spirited) when Dole ran a very weak moderate campaign. During that same campaign, the GOP in Congress was aimless and mushy because they had backed down on the government shutdown issue. They didnt' have a "contract with America," they had nothing and got nothing in return.

[Poohbah]

I don't remember that the liberals were mad at Clinton in 1994.

Look at the string of people he PO'd: gays (don't ask, don't tell), feminists (Kimba Wood, Zoe Baird), blacks (Lani Guinier), and the beat goes on...