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...crowd, in a clip Karl Rove surely downloaded for future use. "Al Gore proved he could have been President of the United States without winning one Southern state, including his own." But Gore didn't become President. And Kerry didn't mention Edwards' favorite bit of presidential trivia: no Democrat has been elected without winning at least five Southern states. "What I give [Democrats] is a candidate who can win everywhere in America," Edwards said last week...
Whatever his accomplishments on Vietnam issues, they had not given Kerry much of a record to parade before voters looking for reasons to re-elect him. "It's hard to say what John Kerry really cares about, other than the Vietnam stuff," says a Capitol Hill Democrat. That opened him to a fierce challenge in 1996 from the popular Republican William Weld, who had been elected Governor with 71% of the vote in a historically Democratic state. Weld's attacks on Kerry provide the playbook for the G.O.P. opposition-research elves, who even now are busy rummaging through every speech...
...then there is Kerry's record on deficits and spending. Conservative Democrat Fritz Hollings says he will never forget when he was collecting votes in 1985 for the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings budget-balancing legislation and practically every senior Democrat in the Senate shut him down. So he started trying the youngsters, including the new Senator from Massachusetts, who shocked him by responding, "We're in trouble; this budget has gotten out of hand." Kerry's support opened the door for other Democrats to vote for the measure. "Here I was--I couldn't even get conservative friends on this bill...
TIME: What kind of Democrat...
KERRY: A thinking Democrat. You can call me an old-fashioned New Deal Democrat on X or Y. I'm not going to break faith on Social Security. I'm not going to abandon people who are struggling to earn a decent wage. But call me a New Democrat when it comes to creating jobs and being entrepreneurial and understanding the bottom line of business...