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...Both seem chastened, if not by the voters' refusal to choose between the two, then by the daunting tasks of governance ahead...
...Clinton's ability to deflect the old, so-called "wedge" issues of crime, patriotism, and coded racial appeals suggests the national agenda is shifting...
...Neither, however, seems eager to claim a mandate...
...Dionne of the Washington Post (and occasionally of Commonweal) argues that this very dullness indicated how the divisive issues that dominated presidential politics for nearly three decades have lost their saliency...
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...Clinton deftly co-opted traditional Republican issues by advocating a balanced budget, the death penalty, welfare reform, and by articulating middle-class cultural concerns...
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...In the most expensive ($800 million) election in American history and possibly the most corrupt (depending on how you read federal law or what you think big money does to the democratic process), both President Bill Clinton and the Republican Congress have been returned to office...
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...But he also went beyond such tired polemics by focusing the country's attention, at least rhetorically, on the future and on such pressing worries as balancing work and family and securing medical care for the elderly...
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...For the short term, Clinton will continue to check the excesses of House Speaker Newt Gingrich and his "revolutionary" cohorts while the penny-pinching Republican Senate and House will readily stifle any of the Democrats' more expansive appetites for taxes and federal activism...
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