Podgy the Bear
mollybecky
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« on: August 11, 2020, 06:31:46 AM » |
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Clinton hurt himself as well--his push of increasing the tax for auto registration was unpopular, and in the primary, he gave up more than 30 percent of the vote to a nonentity. He knew he was in some trouble. And the Hillary effect played a role as well--not very popular with the conservative Arkansas crod. The Clinton reinvented themselves (and would continue to do so) to win again in Arkansas for the rest of the 1980s.
But no doubt the Cuban refugee issue and their placement at Fort Chaffee contributed significantly to the major decline of the Democrats in 1980 in Arkansas.
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