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Hope for our ‘more perfect Union’

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The first time I covered an incumbent president running for reelection was in 1996. That August, right after the Democratic National Convention, the Clintons and Gores boarded buses and embarked on a heartland tour through Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee. I

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