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South Carolina may not be home ground for Kerry, but he figures it is alien territory for someone else. "I'm prepared to campaign in the South," says Kerry, "and elsewhere in the country where it's viewed as being harder." Harder, that is, for Democrats--and especially for one particular Democrat from Vermont who has become the darling of the party's angry antiwar, mostly northeastern left...
They started a separate, privately financed campaign organization called Sweden in Europe. The yes side refuses to provide figures about its budget, but Sören Wibe, leader of the Social Democrat faction that opposes joining the euro, estimates that it is 10 times the amount received from the government - an astounding sum to spend on an election in this country. With that bankroll, they have shouted yes slogans in every legal form. Though political TV advertising is outlawed, the country is awash in debate. On Stockholm street corners, workers dutifully dispense yes or no pins from little huts...
...Democrat Phil Bredesen, a self-made millionaire, won the seat telling voters they?d never hear a peep out of him about an income tax to balance the budget. But Bredesen quickly realized the one-cent sale tax hike wouldn?t be nearly enough to cover the budget shortfall. ?The problems were more severe than I thought they would be,? he says. So Bredesen, who?s refusing a salary, took a meat cleaver to the budget, slashing $400 million and 847 state jobs. State officials may even repossess library books - including Dr. Seuss - from rural schools that haven?t paid...
...obvious solution to the problem is simply to add more troops. Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed, a Democrat and West Point graduate who served with the 82nd Airborne, argues that the Pentagon needs to convert seven National Guard brigades--some 20,000 troops--into active-duty forces. Reed, an increasingly influential player in Congress on defense matters, thinks that would give the military the margin it now lacks in case North Korea or some other nation acts up. Another approach would be to create a new division from the ground up--not the kind that seizes ground and flanks...
...Last week the President restated the obvious: retreat is not an option. Iraq cannot be left an anarchic, terrorist state. Every major Democrat running for President, including Howard Dean, agrees-and most go further than Bush, asserting that more money and manpower are needed to secure the peace. But the President has stubbornly resisted sharing with the American people a detailed assessment of the situation in Iraq: the fact that we may still be there a decade from now at a cost of hundreds of billions. The Pentagon-the civilian leadership of the Pentagon, that is-stubbornly insists that...