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Townhall
The 2016
Political Environment Has Shifted
Michael Barone
Feb 24, 2015
Like it or not, the 2016 presidential race is now well under way.
Republican candidates are flocking to Iowa, New Hampshire and South
Carolina, while Hillary Clinton, in-between $200,000 speeches at
universities, is reported to be in seclusion developing her economic
policies.
It's easy to get overwhelmed by minutiae, but sometimes a twist of
events turns out to be important, even 12 months away from the first
caucuses and primaries. And of course, always keep in mind that most
minutiae turn out to be trivial.
Amid all this, it's important to keep in mind changes in the broader
political environment -- changes which could make this electoral cycle
different in some non-trivial way from the small number of electoral
cycles in the recent past. I see two broad developments which could
make 2016 different.
One is the increasing salience of foreign policy and the increasing
discontent with the foreign policies of the Obama administration. This
was not the case in the first Obama term, when the president got
negative marks on most domestic issues but passing grades on foreign
policy...
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