Word: democratization
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...documentation of the Florida voting scandal. Leitch treats Gingrich’s comment as emblematic of a politician who understands the political system and, without resigning himself to views not his own, faces up to the reality of what some voters need to hear. On the other hand, Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank ’61 states what many may not want to hear when he frankly says, “The problem is people on the left don’t vote; the most successful organizations, like the NRA and AARP, don’t protest...
...political novice as Karl Rove. He was the political director in the Reagan White House and a Washington fixture for more than two decades as a lobbyist and TV talking head. Barbour is an iconic Republican, the same way Sen John Edwards, a trial lawyer, is the iconic Democrat...
...Democrats broke a 20-20 tie in the New Jersey senate, suggesting, perhaps, that the Northeast is still a Democratic stronghold. And in Philadelphia, a Republican challenge to Mayor John Street fell way short. In San Francisco, the most conservative Democrat, the sponsor of an initiative to reduce panhandlers, seemed poised to win - suggesting that Giuliani-style governance remains popular in liberal bastions. In New York City, mayor Mike Bloomberg?s effort to replace the city's primary system with the kind of non-partisan slates found in other cities got trounced. It does not bode well for his reelection...
...friendly rapport between interviewer and interviewee quickly disappeared, with Matthews berating Gephardt on his decision to vote in favor of the Iraq war, hardly allowing the Democrat to get a word in edgewise...
Thompson's research led him to Doug Ross, founder of University Preparatory Academy in Detroit. Ross is a prominent New Democrat policy wonk who served in Bill Clinton's Labor Department, then went home to Michigan and ran unsuccessfully for Governor in 1998. "I learned during the campaign there was one overpowering issue for inner-city parents: to get their kids a college education," Ross told me. "I was tired of theoretical policy junk; I wanted to do something that really mattered. It was clear that urban kids were not responding to the industrial-age assembly-line education model...