Word: democratator
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...conscious decision to say 'Iowa should be first,'" says Redlawsk. "I'm not sure anyone would have invented this process." Yet Iowans have risen to the occasion, becoming "the most politically knowledgeable and aware voters in the country," argues Redlawsk, a New Jersey native and an active Iowa Democrat. "The system actually works quite well, despite its oddities and limitations. It's an accident that's panned out very well...
Iowans are reveling in the influx of thousands of media, staffers, volunteers and others, who are planning to usher in 2008 in Iowa. "We expect a lot more activity this year," said Des Moines Mayor T. M. Franklin Cownie, a Democrat who has endorsed Obama. "All the restaurants in the downtown area are hopping. It's going to be exciting...
...TIME: If you were a Democrat, and I posted this, would [Republicans] put out a press release saying you were engaging in class warfare right now? It's not class warfare. It's absolutely irresponsible if the Republicans do not recognize all of the people of this country and the struggles that they have. What I am saying is that our party needs to change, and understand that it can be - it should be, it will be - the party of every American. But it can't be if it only assumes that the real problems only exist inside a certain...
...some of these events, if you close your eyes, you would think a Democrat was speaking - Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton turned Southern Baptist. "I really think that a lot of people who are elected to government forget," Huckabee will say. "They are not elected to the ruling class but to the servant class." But the trick with Huckabee is that his populist rhetoric is only rarely matched with progressive proposals. He supports continuing President Bush's tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans in the short term, and advocates the so-called Fair Tax, which would replace the progressive income...
...convincing as it appears: it falls far short of the landslide victory Thaksin himself scored in a 2005 election, and the popular vote was much closer than the number of seats in parliament won by the two leading parties would indicate (The PPP won 229 seats; the second-place Democrat Party, 164). Despite the PPP's strong showing, its leaders spent Monday bargaining with smaller parties to forge the legislative coalition it will need to form a government - a task the Democrats will try to make as hard as possible for them. Reports Monday suggested that some smaller parties...