Differences in how Bill Clinton and Joe Biden approached campaigning and governing, despite their similar ideologies, reflect a massive shift in the U.S. electorate. ed_kilgore writes on the evolution of America’s political culture
Former president Bill Clinton and then-Vice-President Joe Biden. Photo: Brooks Kraft/Corbis via Getty Images As part of a series marking MSNBC’s 25th anniversary, Steve Kornacki recently discussed the differences between the 1996 and 2020 presidential elections, and the shift during the intervening years toward a nationalized political culture “defined by the clash of red and blue”:
In 1996, Bill Clinton easily crushed Bob Dole, just two years after Republicans won a famous landslide midterm election and recaptured control of Congress for the first time in decades. He pulled off this feat by dominating the political center, appealing to “swing voters” and even ticket-splitters as no presidential candidate has done since then.
So while rank-and-file Democrats were largely pleased with their newly reelected president, Clinton’s standing with congressional Democrats, and with progressive activists generally, was low as he prepared for his second term. At the time I worked at the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, and accompanied DLC president Al From to a private retreat of the House Democratic Caucus at Gallaudet University.
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