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As in previous campaigns, it's the economy stupid. We'll be looking at that this morning.

First though, it's the news, stupid.

It is the economy stupid.

It's not the economy stupid.

It's the hair stupid, not the economy stupid. It's national security stupid. It's the hair stupid, not the economy

stupid, it's the hair.

Hello. Hello and this is the first installment of our mini-series-Truk and this is the first

installment of our mini-series campaign throwback.

Across three episodes today and the next two Wednesdays, we're going to take a look back at campaign

tropes from past elections, like it's the economy stupid, or soccer moms, or that question about which

candidate you'd rather have a beer with?

We'll ask where those tropes came from, whether they were actually true at the time, and if they still hold up today.

In our first installment, it's the economy stupid.

New Hampshire, nine days before the first primary in our 1992 election of a president of the

United States. It is said here that people are angry. You're tired of recession and layoffs.

The year was 1992. An incumbent George H.W. Bush was running for re-election and for a fourth consecutive Republican term in the White House.

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