Well, yeah, but more in some years, less in others. Why more in 1994 than in 1990 or 1998? That’s the question.
Trust me: in Nov. 94, they remembered it as if it had been last week.
Certainly true - but for all but a handful of very well-off Americans who were going to vote Republican anyway, the tax increase didn’t affect said pocketbooks. Now maybe in certain districts (up your way, for instance), ads were run which made voters think the tax increase would hit them, but that’s another story. Again, judging by the letters in the Bristol Herald-Courier, such ads didn’t run in SW VA/NE TN.
Again, you come on back to Nixon running the country in the black. Again, he only did so for one year, and that his administration, overall, ran in the red.
Sorry you put so much faith in Clinton in '92. I must admit I was pretty skeptical at the time, and have voted for him only as being preferable to Bush or Dole. I don’t think history will be kind to him. Of course, I haven’t seen many candidates get very far in presidential politics that I wish had become president. RFK in '68, Bradley this year, and maybe Dole in '88 (but not in '96). That’s my list in the post-JFK era.