Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many of the new districts, created with the help of computers, looked strange but possessed some geographic integrity. Not so the North Carolina 12th. The meandering serpent represents not just an attempt to concentrate black voters but also a bit of traditional gerrymandering, as the Democratic state legislature strove to avoid siphoning away too many black Democrats from incumbents in adjoining districts. The resulting line segment cleaves so closely to the Interstate that state representative Mickey Michaux, who is black, jokes, "You could drive down I-85 with both doors open and kill everybody in the district." Alive and voting...
...world was ready for a Bill Clinton leadership, but Bill Clinton wasn't ready. Our President has a capacity to lead, but he started out falling flat on his face." Eugene Rostow, an Under Secretary of State in Lyndon Johnson's presidency, had similar high hopes for fellow Democrat Clinton; he now finds himself "puzzled, startled, disappointed...
Reno ran five times, and kept winning by vast margins. That she managed to do so running as a liberal-minded, pro-choice Democrat in a deeply conservative county without hiding her principles, carries a lot of weight in the city of perpetual pandering...
...liberals are that way because they believe," says her sister. "You weren't a liberal because it was a fad or because you were supposed to. You weren't supposed to. So you did it from profound conviction." The real irony here is that Reno may be the New Democrat that Clinton both avoids and aspires to be. Her heart is big but her solutions are sound; she cares more for results than for labels, for ideas over ideology. If the White House is worried about taking the country in a new direction, perhaps it should send Reno on ahead...
Basically a Democrat, Kinsley is enough of an independent thinker that he occasionally argues with himself. Last fall, as an intellectual exercise, he set out to make a case for voting for George Bush. He produced some cogent arguments, then pronounced a one-word verdict on them: "Nawwwwww . . ." Now, bucking journalistic fashion, Kinsley describes himself as still "one of the bigger Clinton enthusiasts around." The President has made mistakes, he says, but "the center of his trouble is that he is seriously addressing problems that the past two Presidents have ignored," notably the deficit (Mike is a confirmed deficit hawk...