1.Candidates try to project a strong leadership image. (para.4)
2.Whether voters accept this image, however, depends more on external factors than on a candidate‘s personal characteristics. (para. 4)
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3.A year later, with the nation‘s economy in trouble, Bush’s approval rating dropped below 40 percent.
4.Candidates are particularly concerned with winning the states which have the largest population.
5.Clinton received only 43 percent of the popular vote in 1992, compared with Bush‘s 38 percent and Perot’s 19 percent.
6.In deciding whether to pursue a course of action, they try to estimate its likely impact on the voters.
7.Warren G. Harding accepted the 1920 Republican nomination at his Ohio home, stayed there throughout most of the campaign, and won a full victory simply because most of the voters of his time were Republicans.
8.“The Economy, Stupid.”The slogan was the idea of James Carville, Clinton‘s chief strategist, and was meant as a reminder to the candidate and the staff to keep the campaign focused on the nation’s slow-moving economy, which ultimately was the issue that defeated Bush.