Word: democratization
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...grounds for mocking the “backwardness” of Americans who have never been to the big city when they themselves have never been to a small town. (Nantucket does not count.) Liberals may jostle, hoping to win back the heartland vote with a hypothetical Messianic, charismatic Democrat. But for many land-locked liberals like myself, it is still heartland conservatives who are more in touch with the sentiments of most Americans—even if they are not the people who would be best in office. I am constantly amazed by Harvard students?...
...have missed it, but that dull, thudding sound in the political background over the weekend was Republicans pummeling Democrats on, of all things, corruption.That's because last Friday, the top-ranking Democrat on the House ethics committee, West Virginia's Alan Mollohan, was forced to step down temporarily from that post over charges of - what else? - unethical behavior. And Republicans didn't miss this golden opportunity to pile...
...Democrat, go and march on the White House...
However, those kind of cheesy tricks actually helped make Democrat Mark Warner the governor of conservative Virginia in 2001. The authors know because they both worked on Warner’s campaign...
...Towey, the President's director of faith-based initiatives, isn't a typical Bush appointee. First of all, he's a Democrat. Second, his career trajectory never took him anywhere near the state of Texas. He worked on Capitol Hill for former Sen. Mark Hatfield, the Oregon Republican, and for Lawton Chiles, the former Democratic governor of Florida. He also had the distinction of being the late Mother Teresa's lawyer, and serving in her Calcutta mission. On Monday, seated under a picture of President Bush at prayer, Towey told a handful of reporters that he was leaving the White...