Presidential Politics: Past as Prologue
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"Something was larger than politics."
After a long and bruising campaign where middle America was concerned that the country was in "deep trouble," voters elected a new president. It was a change election that saw the governing party swept from power. It was November 1992.
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Presidential Politics: Past as Prologue
Clip: Season 2016 | 3m 54sVideo has Closed Captions
After a long and bruising campaign where middle America was concerned that the country was in "deep trouble," voters elected a new president. It was a change election that saw the governing party swept from power. It was November 1992.
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