dolstein
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Sun Oct-12-03 11:01 PM
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If he hadn't screwed around with Monica Lewinsky, Gore would likely have won the 2000 election by a comfortable margin.
Yes, I know that Clinton continued to enjoy high job approval ratings in the polls up through the 2000 election. But his personal approvals went straight into the gutter. And I'm sure that that if you looked at the people who voted for Clinton in 1996 and then voted for Bush in 2000, the Lewinsky scandal played a big role.
If nothing else, the Lewinsky scandal united and energized the Republican Party.
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