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With her audience of eager graduate students and baby boomers cozily nestled between parted stacks, Cohen braved last Friday’s snowstorm to speak about her latest book, A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America. Even C-SPAN was undeterred by the weather, arriving in full force with cameras and boom microphones to hear Cohen kick off the Harvard Book Store’s spring “Friday Forum” series...
...room, jammed with well-wishers, a handful of reporters and one of those ever present C-SPAN cameras, went silent for a moment. And so did the rest of Washington, for a few days. But Lott had set off a time bomb. During the 1948 race Lott was referring to, Thurmond had broken with the Democratic Party over President Truman's expansion of civil rights for black Americans. Thurmond ran for President as the nominee of the States' Rights Party, also known as the Dixiecrats. Its platform was built almost entirely around a pledge to uphold "the segregation...
National elections were completed last month, and Uncle Sam just now finished his housing rearrangement—he swept a couple Republicans under the rug, moved a lot of nondescript Democrats back into storage, and reclined in his White House. He must have laughed at the C-Span junkies yelling something indecipherable about Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) express train heading back to Arizona. Yet as amusing as this good old American election drama is, there is something sinister and insidious lurking beneath Uncle Sam’s contented conservative front. It is the same unsettling force...
...that event, C-SPAN brought camera crews and reporters from the Associated Press and The New York Times attended...
...Mondale for Wellstone's Minnesota Senate seat. And a private poll by Bill Clinton's former pollster, Mark Penn, suggests the service backfired on Democrats nationally as well. Penn found that 68% of voters knew about the service--a high awareness of an event broadcast live nationally only on C-SPAN. What's more, 49% of voters said the service made them less likely to vote for a Democrat--and 67% of independents said they felt that way. One Democrat who quickly sensed that the service was a political disaster was Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, a possible 2004 presidential...