WASHINGTON (AP) — Sensing a Republican tidal wave, President Bill Clinton worried in the summer of 1994 that Republicans were energized heading into the midterm elections while his Democratic base was deflated. “There’s no organization, there’s no energy, there’s no anything out there,” Clinton said of his own party.
“They’re organized and they’re working,” the president observed of conservative activists, according to an August, 1994 transcript. “And our cultural base. … They walked off.”
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