Word: democratizer
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George W. Bush is less popular than poison ivy; the economy is in worse shape than Homer Simpson; if the Republican Party were a bank, it would need a bailout. But none of that can explain why Democrat Travis Childers won a startling special election to represent Mississippi's First Congressional District in May or why he's expected to keep his seat in November...
...Childers has not focused his campaign on Bush or on a House Republican caucus that has usually marched in lockstep with Bush or even on Davis; Childers' speeches make it sound as if he's running against a Washington resident named Partisan Bickering. He may be a Democrat, but he's a pro-gun, pro-life, pro-drilling Blue Dog Democrat who rarely mentions House Speaker Nancy Pelosi except to assure voters that she doesn't tell him what to do. And for all his folksy chatter, he won't even say whether he's voting for Obama, shifting...
...Childers, the common thread tying together Democrats is government concern for working families. As a teenager, he went to work in a convenience store after his father died, while his mother worked two minimum-wage jobs; he remembers borrowing $1,100 to get himself through Ole Miss. He's appalled by the $10 trillion national debt, but he's an economic populist who doesn't assume government spending is bad. He believes that Republicans convinced many Southerners that Democrats don't share their values because of hot-button culture issues like guns--he doesn't mention race...
...current economic meltdown by coddling Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. "I believe in God, I believe in the war in Iraq, and I don't have a lot of use for Nancy Pelosi," he says. "But Travis, well, I think he's his own man. He's a Democrat...
...truth is that in most elections, this clash of the monsters usually boils down to a pair of elderly women poll watchers--the one in the patterned sweater and sneakers is the Democrat, and the one with the rhinestone red-white-and-blue elephant pin and the sensible flats is the Republican--arguing over a few smudgy ballots in a couple of thousand precincts across America. Relax--our democracy will survive...