Word: democratator
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...changed since then. In the '70s and '80s, beer Democrats were easy pickings for Republicans. In 1972 they detested McGovern's amnesty plan for Vietnam draft dodgers and his support for forced busing. After McGovern won the nomination, the Teamsters, longshoremen and construction-workers unions refused to back him. Something similar happened in 1988, when white working-class Democrats couldn't stomach Dukakis' opposition to the death penalty. In both years, the primaries exposed bitter ideological divisions that came back to haunt the party in November. In 1972 Democrat Henry (Scoop) Jackson, in his bid for blue-collar primary votes...
This year, by contrast, the issues that once split the Democrats along race and class lines--the death penalty, welfare and affirmative action--have virtually disappeared. On foreign policy, blue-collar Dems have grown as tired of the Iraq war as have their upscale counterparts. And downscale white Democrats simply aren't as conservative as they were in the Archie Bunker days. During Vietnam, Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley--the quintessential lunch-pail Democrat--sent cops to bust the heads of hippie protesters. Today his son, Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, opposes the Iraq war, promotes environmentalism and marches...
Never mind all those maps of red and blue America, a nation polarized between Democrat and Republican, city and country, with entire elections teetering on the last-minute decisions of a few Ohio soccer moms. Forget what you know about the inaccessible general-election candidate, hidden behind layers of Secret Service and stage-managed pomp. Scratch those notions of a Republican Party that sidles up to pharmaceutical companies and oil giants, never ruffling the paymasters' feathers...
...holders to provide some or all of the rights to their work online for free. Last summer, Lessig surprised many of his longtime admirers by announcing that he would shift his scholarly focus from copyright and cyber law to the issue of political corruption. He cited the influence of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and former Vice President Al Gore ’69 for inspiring him to shift his focus “for at least the next 10 years.” Lessig said that his run for Congress would be part of a larger movement, dubbed...
...terrain is not what it was back then. Clinton is an organization Democrat where Democratic organization is a shambles. Nearly 2 million people turned out to vote in the 1988 Democratic primary in Texas; four years ago, the number was less than a million. It's almost impossible for a Democrat to be elected statewide...