Volume 35, Number 19 · December 8, 1988
The Morning After
By Murray Kempton
The Democrats dodged the bullet and could wake up after the election heartened and surprised to discover that they may not need to wait for some disaster to the nation to restore their chance to inaugurate a president of their own. The one embarrassment that might have disabled their future all but permanently would have been a November like 1972's, when George McGovern carried no state but Massachusetts, or 1984's, when Walter Mondale carried no state but Minnesota and when the District of Columbia was the only sure refuge for the Democrats.
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