Results of 1994 Election
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E.J. Dionne is a fellow of the Brookings Institution and a columnist and political analyst for the Washington Post. His most recent book is entitled they Only Look Dead and can be seen as a response to the results of the 1994 election in particular, an election which was hailed by many as evidence of a new conservative majority in the United States, based on the rise to power of Newt Gingrich in the House of Representatives and the republican majority he was credited with engineering. While Bill Clinton was reelected handily, the trend overall was seen as a Republican surge in House, Senate, and gubernatorial races. Many analysts took this as a sign that liberals had not only lost ground but were no longer viable in national politics, but Dionne believes that many of the forces which brought about the conservative surge actually presage the possibility of a progressive era to come. Only time will tell if he is correct. He makes a good argument, but he is not entirely convincing. Dionne gives a number of reasons why he believes the current Republican majority will not hold. He said earlier in his book Why Americans Hate Politics that both parties are
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