Perspective: Why Democrats are thinking about electability all wrong
President Bill Clinton is applauded by Al From, chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council, left, and Sen. Joseph Lieberman before addressing the council in Washington on Nov. 13, 1995. By Jeremy C. Young Jeremy C. Young is an assistant professor of history at Dixie State University, director of the DSU Institute of Politics and Public Affairs and the author of “The Age of Charisma: Leaders, Followers, and Emotions in American Society, 1870-1940.
The median voter theorem became popular among Democrats reeling from the electoral losses of the 1970s and 1980s. With the exception of Southern moderate Jimmy Carter, who was the Democratic nominee in 1976 and 1980, every Democratic presidential candidate of the 1970s and 1980s was a liberal — and every one of them was defeated by crushing margins.
During the 1990s, From’s centrist approach seemed to have struck electoral gold. Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, a former DLC chairman, won the presidency in 1992 and romped to reelection in 1996. As president, Clinton applied adviser Dick Morris’s strategy of “triangulation,” adopting some Republican policies in an effort to win moderate voters. Clinton worked with Republicans in Congress to curtail welfare, deregulate the telecommunications industry and repeal Depression-era restrictions on banks.
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