Pledge To America

Bill Clinton: Dems Should Present National Platform For Midterm (VIDEO)

Eric Kleefeld | September 23, 2010, 12:47PM

Former President Bill Clinton

Former President Bill Clinton is giving his advice to Democrats for the midterm elections: Come out with a coherent national agenda to counter the Republicans.

During an interview on Morning Joe, Clinton discussed the House Republicans' "Pledge to America" that was released today, modeled after Newt Gingrich's 1994 "Contract With America" that helped steamroll the Democrats during Clinton's first midterm election in 1994.

Clinton said that Gingrich had provided the country with a "political science gift": "Newt Gingrich proved with that Contract for America that you could nationalize the midterm elections. So, I think that the president and the Democrats -- even at this late date should do this as an opportunity and an obligation to say, alright, they've organized their national plan. Here's what ours is. If you hire us for two more years, here's what we're going to do."

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