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Claiming the Mantle

Dilemmas in American Politics

Series Editor: L. Sandy Maisel , Colby College

If the answers to the problems facing U.S. democracy were easy, politicians would solve them, accept credit, and move on. But certain dilemmas have confronted the American political system continuously. They defy solution; they are endemic to the system. Some can best be described as institutional dilemmas: How can the Congress be both a representative body and a national decision maker? How can the president communicate with more than 250 million citizens effectively? Why do we have a two-party system when many voters are disappointed with the choices presented to them? Others are policy dilemmas: How do we find compromises on issues that defy compromise, such as abortion policy? How do we incorporate racial and ethnic minorities or immigrant groups into American society, allowing them to reap the benefits of this land without sacrificing their identity? How do we fund health care for our poorest or oldest citizens?

Dilemmas such as these are what propel students toward an interest in the study of U.S. government. Each book in the Dilemmas in American Politics series addresses a "real-world" problem, raising the issues that are of most concern to students. Each is structured to cover the historical and theoretical aspects of the dilemma but also to explore the dilemma from a practical point of view and to speculate about the future. The books are designed as supplements to introductory courses in American politics or as case studies to be used in upper-level courses. The link among them is the desire to make the real issues confronting the political world come alive in students' eyes.

Editorial Board

Jeffrey M. Berry
Tufts University

John F. Bibby
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

David T. Canon
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Rodolfo O. de la Garza
University of Texas, Austin

Diana Evans
Trinity College

Linda L. Fowler
Dartmouth College

Paul Gronke
Reed College

Richard Herrera
Arizona State University

Ruth S. Jones
Arizona State University

Robin Kolodny
Temple University

Jay McCann
Purdue University

Paula D. McClain
Duke University

Karen O'Connor
American University

Samuel C. Patterson
Ohio State University

Ronald B. Rapoport
The College of William and Mary

Craig A. Rimmerman
Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Wendy Schiller
Brown University

David Shribman
The Boston Globe

Walter J. Stone
University of California, Davis

Books in This Series

Claiming the Mantle: How Presidential Nominations Are Won and Lost
Before the Votes Are Cast, R. Lawrence Butler

The New Citizenship: Unconventional Politics, Activism, and Service,
3rd ed., Craig A. Rimmerman

Voting for Women: How the Public Evaluates Women Candidates ,
Kathleen A. Dolan

Two PartiesOr More? The American Party System, 2nd ed.,
John F. Bibby and L. Sandy Maisel

"Can We All Get Along?" Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics, 3rd ed.,
Paula D. McClain and Joseph Stewart, Jr.

The Role of the Supreme Court in American Politics: The Least Dangerous Branch?
Richard L. Pacelle, Jr.

Onward Christian Soldiers? The Religious Right in American Politics, 2nd ed.,
Clyde Wilcox

To Serve God and Mammon; Church-State Relations in American Politics,
Ted Jelen

Money Rules: Financing Elections in America,
Anthony Gierzynski

The Dysfunctional Congress? The Individual Roots of an Institutional Dilemma,
Kenneth R. Mayer and David T. Canon

The Accidental System: Health Care Policy in America,
Michael D. Reagan

The Image-Is-Everything Presidency: Dilemma in American Leadership,
Richard W. Waterman, Robert Wright, and Gilbert St. Clair

The Angry American: How Voter Rage Is Changing the Nation, 2nd ed.,
Susan J. Tolchin

Remote and Controlled: Media Politics in a Cynical Age, 2nd ed.,
Matthew Robert Kerbel

Checks and Balances? How a Parliamentary System Could Change American Politics,
Paul Christopher Manuel and Anne Marie Cammisa

Making Americans, Remaking America: Immigration and Immigrant Policy,
Louis DeSipio and Rodolfo de la Garza

From Rhetoric to Reform? Welfare Policy in American Politics,
Anne Marie Cammisa

No Neutral Ground? Abortion Politics in an Age of Absolutes,
Karen O'Connor

Payment Due: A Nation in Debt, a Generation in Trouble,
Timothy J. Penny and Steven E. Schier

Bucking the Deficit: Economic Policymaking in the United States,
G. Calvin Mackenzie and Saranna Thornton

Claiming the Mantle

How Presidential Nominations Are Won and Lost Before the Votes Are Cast

R. Lawrence Butler
Assistant Professor of Political Science Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey

First published 2004 by Westview Press

Published 2019 by Routledge
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Butler, Roger Lawrence, 1963
Claiming the mantle: how presidential nominations are won and lost before the votes are
cast / R. Lawrence Butler.
p. cm. (Dilemmas in American politics)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8133-4208-2 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. PresidentsUnited StatesNomination. 2. PrimariesUnited States. I. Title. II. Series.
JK522.B88 2005
324.273'15dc22
2004020097

ISBN 13: 978-0-367-00760-7 (hbk)

For my wife Joannewho gave me the courage to be who I was meant to be

Contents

1. iii

Guide

The Sound of Bubbles Bursting

ON JANUARY 31, 2000, it seemed as if Christmas Eve had come again to Washington, D.C. Like a small child listening for the sound of Santa coming down the chimney with a bag full of toys, the chattering class in Washington was quivering with excitement. They had been waiting for this moment for a generation.

Not since the Democratic confab in 1980 had a presidential nominating convention opened in which there was the slightest doubt as to who the winner would be. Now, on the eve of the New Hampshire primary, both parties appeared headed for an extended showdown. On the Democratic side, the former New Jersey senator and basketball star Bill Bradley had been slugging it out with Vice President Al Gore for months. For the Republicans, Senator John McCain of Arizona, the war hero and media darling, had pulled even in some polls with Governor George W. Bush of Texas, the son of a former president. For candidates and pundits alike, hope seemed as fresh and expansive as the frozen surface of Lake Winnipesaukee after a snowfall.

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