The elections of 1997: The trend, with major themes absent, the little things count
Forget the post-mortems on ideological movement, the Republican candidate or revivals took the most money. The legacy of Off-Off-year elections on Tuesday, maybe a little everywhere: Think small.
The questions are, finally, this week continued in the Governor elections - automobile insurance rates in New Jersey and the state tax on vehicles in Virginia - have never been spearheading the States ” of politics. The fact that the main concerns as such, after investigations Voters polls, underscores two realities on the current state of American politics: voters are relatively content, so that elections in these days, they do are not major issues such as unemployment. The space left for issues that are rarely talked about, a few months before the election to mount the head of the political discourse.
The success of the small scholarship issues is a perfect head of the strategy of President Clinton last year, the choice, when he seized a small but highly symbolic issues such as school. It also corresponds to the withdrawal of ideology in the current policy, it is one hour, if both parties are struggling for issues of definition.
”If the economy in difficulty, I do not think we are almost as these issues because they were dominant on Tuesday,’’said Vin Weber, former representative of Minnesota, a prominent conservative. ”The population is very happy at this moment, people can afford it, with these subjects.”
James S. Councillor Gilmore 3d, the Republican, was elected governor of Virginia, said she believes he won by a wide margin unexpectedly on Lieut. Dir Donald S. Beyer Jr., because he actually captured on a subject, with many powerful Virginians: he promised the elimination of the State infamous annual tax on cars and trucks.
In New Jersey, Dir adviser Christine Todd Whitman said Senator James E. Land McGreevey, his Democratic rival, came so close to moving the popular incumbent, because he is also a problem of the anger of ordinary voters: the state, auto insurance rates high.
Politicians and strategists across the country, even the Republicans and Democrats, said yesterday in interviews that if the economy of prisoners and there were no other new hot topics, hunting small hole in question could become a trademark of next year for races Congress and the Governor.
”You have the free choice of a backbone in the saddle,’’said Dir Howard Dean of Vermont, chairman of the Democratic Governors Association. ”And I think Gilmore and McGreevey has done very effectively.”
Mr. Dean said he would consult with the Democratic candidate next year, looking for issues that affect voters.
It est”en be different in different countries,”he said. ”It could be rules in Iowa pig farm, an illegal act reform Alabama and Konföderierten flag in South Carolina.
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