Politics

How Obama and the Democrats Could Win on Gun Control—by Losing

TICKET TO 2014

Obama may fail to get his bill passed. But Eleanor Clift says the issue could lift his party in 2014.

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Bill Clinton got an assault-weapons ban passed in 1994, and Democrats went on to lose both houses of Congress that year. The betting is that President

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