The Dole campaign accuses Sen. Gramm of using Jimmy Carter tactics. We don’t know what this is all about, but we know mud when we see it flung.
The end of the “revolution”? Not exactly. The results of the November 7 elections offer no signs of a Democratic resurgence. Democrats barely held onto the Kentucky governor’s mansion and the Virginia State Senate—both of which they have essentially owned since Reconstruction—by mobilizing their base with scare talk about Newt Gingrich and GOP budget cuts. Republican voters, meanwhile, appeared to suffer from complacency, an almost inevitable reaction to 1994. The GOP momentum has unquestionably slowed. But the inertia had set in months ago, especially in the U.S. Senate. A Republican Congress elected to reshape American politics has left its contours remarkably unaltered: so far, no tax cuts, no welfare reform, no end to affirmative action, no regulatory relief—in short, no tangible benefits for Middle America. So who needs more Republicans? If the elections are taken as proof that the GOP has gone “too far”—if they prompt Republicans to back off before any of their agenda has become law—voters will inevitably be asking the same question next year.
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