If voters decided to reward the GOP for planning to impeach Clinton, would Gingrich have stayed Speaker?
The 2000 election might have a different GOP nominee and different downballot effects if Gingrich is still Speaker.If the Republican party had picked up even a small number of seats, there would have been no basis to remove Gingrich in 1998, regardless of his personal popularity. However, the Republican party also lost two seats in 2000, which might have provided the impetus for Republicans dissatisfied with Gingrich's leadership style to force him out.
If voters decided to reward the GOP for planning to impeach Clinton, would Gingrich have stayed Speaker?
Perhaps, as Bush was largely a response to 1998. He did extremely well in his re-election that year against the national swing and seemed to get that Gingrich's style, while it had its fans, was ineffective at winning more broadly, and he talked a lot about this in the debates in late '99.The 2000 election might have a different GOP nominee and different downballot effects if Gingrich is still Speaker.