Word: democratator
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Democrats will not have a good idea who their candidate is at least until April 22, the day of the Pennsylvania Democratic primary, and even then, may still not know with certainty until late in the summer. Between now and then, the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have a responsibility to the millions of Democrats who have participated in the election to maintain a basic level of civility. This applies equally to the candidates and their staffers and advisors. The sort of personal animosity that motivated Obama’s advisor and Kennedy School professor Samantha Power?...
...after Hillary Clinton's victories over Barack Obama in the Ohio and Texas primaries made the race even tighter, Florida Governor Charlie Crist, a Republican, and Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, a Democrat, called upon the party to seat their delegates, saying to do otherwise would silence "the voices of 5,163,271 Americans" who voted in their primaries. In Florida, for instance, 1.75 million Democrats voted, which was the best Democratic turnout in state history. That sentiment has been echoed by Clinton supporter Florida senator Bill Nelson as well as the Clinton campaign itself, which won both crucial swing states...
...leaders? There aren't any politicians - Democrat or Republican - willing to speak truth on this. Instead, politicians compete to prove themselves more draconian than thou, to embrace America's most profound and enduring policy failure...
...Ohio governor had particularly harsh words for party leaders who suggest that Clinton should bow out tonight. Strickland blasted Senator Ted Kennedy, who took his own campaign against fellow Democrat Jimmy Carter all the way to the 1980 Democratic convention...
Calling his campaign an attempt to empower the American people, Democratic presidential candidate Mike Gravel spoke to the Harvard Democrats in Emerson Hall on Friday about his views on the 2008 election. Gravel, who represented Alaska in the U.S. Senate from 1969 to 1981, blasted the American media for refusing to take his campaign seriously and accused corporate America of backing candidates who would bend to its will. At this point, Gravel is the only other active candidate for the Democratic nomination besides Harvard Law School alumnus Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton—though...