Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bachrach, as expected, described himself as a "progressive Democrat" despite the fact that "a frustrated public" currently wants Democratic leaders "to be more like the Republicans...
...this year and turned down an appointment to the Supreme Court in order to push for health reform. Mitchell remains committed to fight for any helpful reform he can get, as does a shrinking band of moderate Republicans led by Rhode Island Senator John Chafee. Ted Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat, is one of the diehards. He told TIME, "I've never thought the best should be the enemy of the good." And Ira Magaziner, chief architect of the now abandoned Clinton plan, is gamely working with Senator Harris Wofford of Pennsylvania and other Senate liberals on a "Kids First" plan...
...other ad, Barrett describes himself as "a maverick Democrat" in the tradition of Paul Tsongas, whose Democratic "human instincts" combine with "the fiscal responsibility of the other party." The "third way," as Barrett calls it, is a combination of liberal social policy and conservative economic policy. To the untrained ear, that might sound remarkably like the approach that led incumbent Republican William F. Weld '66 to victory in the last gubernatorial race...
Meanwhile, Republicans are happily doing just the opposite by playing up the Washington angle and national themes. "Democrats are running from Clinton like scalded dogs," chuckles G.O.P. chairman Barbour. So the Republicans' constant theme for November, he promises, will be that Democrat incumbents have consistently "voted for Clinton's bad ideas...
...rights, conservative Christian activists can provide candidates with a base of enthusiastic supporters. In Virginia's fractious Senate race, a four-way contest in which the winner will not need 50% of the vote, they have helped give Oliver North a real shot at the seat held by Democrat Charles Robb. "North is constructing a coalition of the pious and the poff," says political scientist Robert Holsworth of Virginia Commonwealth University. "He's much more effective at it than anyone thought he would...