Guardian article compares Clinton campaigning to that of John Major

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections08/hillaryclinton/story/0,,2236527,00.html


Back on the stump: Hillary faces fight to stay in presidential race


Martin Kettle in Manchester, New Hampshire
Monday January 7, 2008
The Guardian

If Hillary Clinton defies the pundits by overcoming Barack Obama and then the Republicans to become the next president of the United States, historians will be able to specify the time and the place where she started to turn the tide. At 10.15am yesterday, in the car park of the Puritan Backroom restaurant in Manchester, New Hampshire, in front of a couple of hundred unfashionably fervent Hillary supporters, Clinton chose to make what may turn out to be her last stand.

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She did it by taking a page out of the campaign playbook of one of the most improbable role-models for any American politician - our very own former Conservative prime minister John Major. It was in March 1992 that Major climbed on to a soapbox in Luton market, took a loudhailer in his hand, and began to regain control of the 1992 general election campaign from Labour's Neil Kinnock and go on to victory. Yesterday, in the Manchester car park, Hillary Clinton tried to do exactly the same thing. Millions of dollars have been spent by the Clinton campaign on the most high-faluting image consultants, ad strategists and pollsters that money can buy. Nothing that Clinton says or does is ever knowingly underprepared or untested on the market.

But on this cold New Hampshire morning, her aides put out a sturdy grey soapbox for her to stand on, handed her a Hillary-for-President loudhailer and positively willed her to turn things round the old-fashioned way.

Unfortunately for the spinners of political legends, Clinton took a quick look at the loudhailer, or bull-horn as they say here, brandished it in the air to a volley of hollering from her supporters and chose instead to use a microphone, which promptly proceeded to crackle and falter.-snip-

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1. would that be the Caryle Groups John Major ?

Last year, George Bush Sr and John Major travelled to Riyadh to talk with senior Saudi businessmen. In September 2000, Carlyle hired speakers including Colin Powell and AOL Time Warner chair Steve Case to address an extravagant party at Washington's Monarch Hotel. Months later, Major joined James Baker for a function at the Lanesborough Hotel in London, to explain the Florida election controversy to the wealthy attendees.

We can assume that Carlyle pays well. Neither Major's office nor Carlyle will confirm the details of his salary as European chairman - an appointment announced shortly before he left the House of Commons after the election

http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,583869,00.html

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2. Can you imagine the Tories having Primaries in 1997?