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...election, Nader undeniably moved Gore’s rhetoric to the left (remember Gore’s excited, populist-sounding convention speech?), something Nader told us was a unique advantage of running as a third-party challenger. But this year Dean??running as a Democrat—moved an entire field of candidates to the left, as Kerry and others struggled to bring their rhetoric in line to compete. Nader, evidently, was wrong: real change can come from within...
Moreover, Dean??s behavior after ending his run for office exhibits the opposite of Nader’s shameful post-2000 disappearance. Dean continues to push his causes, from a weblog updated regularly even post-campaign, to a massive effort to encourage progressives to run in local elections, to a promise to attend the convention and influence the Democratic platform. There’s even talk of Dean starting a Political Action Committee to use his formidable fundraising skills to push Democrats back left...
...labeling the liberals’ case against President Bush, editorial writers and commentators from across the punditocracy have stamped the epithet “populist” across the forehead of nearly every Democratic candidate. In the Washington Post last month, David S. Broder called former Vermont Governor Howard Dean??s fundraising appeals “internet-based populism.” In The New York Times the same day, Robin Toner mused about whether Americans can accept a “populist uprising” at a time of economic recovery. On CNN, Robert Novak questioned what...
Numerous studies by non-partisan media research groups have demonstrated that Dean received a disproportionate share of negative campaign coverage. According to the Center for Media and Public Affairs, he received twice as much coverage as Kerry in 2003. Forty-nine percent of Dean??s mentions were deemed positive, compared to a whopping 78 percent for the other Dems combined. It became even worse on the day of Iowa: before the caucuses, the Center reports that 98 percent of the network evening news coverage of Kerry and Edwards was positive, compared to 58 for Dean. Even more remarkable...
...parties run until 2,” he said. “They read The Crimson and thought that they’d try to have parties until 2 anyway, and then they were upset when someone came by at 1 to shut it down. I think the dean??s office could have been a little less vague about Masters’ discretion in extending party hours...