The Washington Post, November 5th, 1998
The light bulb flashed over my head when the second senator -- this one of the opposing party -- used the same metaphor to explain the dynamics and consequences of the midterm election. The first was Connecticut Democrat Joseph Lieberman, a friend of President Clinton and the man who had most effectively expressed many people's moral outrage at Clinton's efforts to conceal his tawdry relationship with a White House intern. "The country is in such a good mood," he said, "the people are so optimistic, they didn't want to rock the boat." That economic optimism certainly explains why Tuesday's vot...
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