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Hillary Clinton has indicated that she would like to be called “Presidential Partner” rather than “First Lady”—perhaps to avoid the stigma of being known as prima donna inter pares.

The election brought us a landslide, all right: term-limits proposals won in all 14 states where they were on the ballot. In 13 of those states—including California, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, and Florida—they took from 55 to 77 per cent of the vote, with the overall average a decisive 66 per cent. Term limits collected an aggregate of nearly 21 million votes, dwarfing Bill Clinton’s 14 million in those same states, and more than Ross Perot won nationwide. Here was the electorate speaking in a roar —yet the major news media, while hyping Mr. Clinton’s “mandate for change,” have said next to nothing about it. (They’re trying not to tell us something.) The only close vote was in Washington state, where Tom Foley campaigned hard to discourage the proposal, and it still won with 52 per cent. This was a tremendous victory. But we’ve been served notice that the Democrats and their media friends will do all they can to keep it from going further.

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Hillary Clinton has indicated that she would like to be called “Presidential Partner” rather than “First Lady”—perhaps to avoid the stigma of being known as prima donna inter pares.

The election brought us a landslide, all right: term-limits proposals won in all 14 states where they were on the ballot. In 13 of those states—including California, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, and Florida—they took from 55 to 77 per cent of the vote, with the overall average a decisive 66 per cent. Term limits collected an aggregate of nearly 21 million votes, dwarfing Bill Clinton’s 14 million in those same states, and more than Ross Perot won nationwide. Here was the electorate speaking in a roar —yet the major news media, while hyping Mr. Clinton’s “mandate for change,” have said next to nothing about it. (They’re trying not to tell us something.) The only close vote was in Washington state, where Tom Foley campaigned hard to discourage the proposal, and it still won with 52 per cent. This was a tremendous victory. But we’ve been served notice that the Democrats and their media friends will do all they can to keep it from going further.