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...presidential election almost seems to have taken on the quality of the World Series or the Super Bowl. We each have a favorite, but after the winner has been determined, we can go back to our regular lives. Charles K. Stein Coram, New York, U.S. I am the sole Democrat where I work. All of us are devoutly Christian and love one another. As Oregonians, we were able to cast our mail-in ballots before Election Day, and since then my friends and I have quietly sought to heal the wounds inflicted by this heated campaign. We've asked...
...depends on which Democrat you ask. "In the 1980s, we got hit by a political 2-by-4," says Bruce Reed, president of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, which helped launch Clinton on his way to the White House in 1992. "This election was a whole lot more complicated. It was so close that it's unlikely to be a learning experience for Democrats. I suspect there'll be more finger pointing than soul searching. And that's a shame." For Reed and other so-called New Democrats who struggle to keep the party from veering...
...there's a battle for the soul of the Democratic Party, predicts Simon Rosenberg, president of the New Democrat Network, a moderate advocacy group, it won't be the usual skirmish between the liberals and moderates of the professional political class in Washington but one between the Washington insiders on one side and the rank-and-file activists spread out across the country on the other. "What's changed over the past two years is that activist Democrats believe that Republicans are venal people," says Rosenberg. These activists "are going to be very intolerant of Democrats in Washington who cooperate...
...know now, he would have supported going into Iraq." The next day at the Bush team's weekly session held in Rove's dining room, advisers planned to put the question in each of Bush's speeches. Some privately feared that Kerry might not take the bait. The Democrat was looking stronger. His vice-presidential selection and convention had been managed smoothly. "We weren't sure he would do it," says Bush adviser Mary Matalin. "We thought we might be seeing the strong closer everyone had talked about." Then Kerry bit. Standing at the edge of the Grand Canyon three...
...Kerry was smart enough to know something else. "You're the only Democrat who's been elected twice since F.D.R.," he told the ex-President. No one had been so tested as Clinton's team when it came to digging themselves out of a crater, and Kerry had already recruited some of the most combat-hardened of them out of retirement--former White House press secretaries Joe Lockhart and Mike McCurry, ex-Clinton aides Joel Johnson and Doug Sosnik, and Hillary's old chief of staff Howard Wolfson. Almost from the moment they arrived, Kerry's operation showed...