Word: democratizing
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...find just ONE Democrat who's won something significant, who can be our standard bearer and move our agenda forward...
...turn 40 this winter, and I've been covering elections since 1980. Every few years the Democrats wake up with a hangover--'80, '84, '88, '94, '00 and now this one. Just like being a Boston Red Sox fan, there's a certain heartache in being a Democrat. But, as both parties have proven over the years, each loss contains the seeds of renewal...
...During the holiday from history that was the 1990s, that fundamental question--Do you feel safe entrusting the national security to this person?--lost its urgency. Not until 1992 could a Bill Clinton win the presidency. It was not just that he was untested but that he was a Democrat. After the Vietnam debacle, the Democratic Party was perceived as uncertain and unreliable on national security. Which is why in the last quarter-century of the cold war, between the late '60s and the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, Democrats were denied the presidency in every election (with...
...memorial service for Paul Wellstone cost Democrats the election? A backlash against the politically charged service almost certainly helped Norm Coleman beat Walter Mondale for Wellstone's Minnesota Senate seat. And a private poll by Bill Clinton's former pollster, Mark Penn, suggests the service backfired on Democrats nationally as well. Penn found that 68% of voters knew about the service--a high awareness of an event broadcast live nationally only on C-SPAN. What's more, 49% of voters said the service made them less likely to vote for a Democrat--and 67% of independents said they felt that...
...private some Republicans just couldn't resist. At 2 a.m. on election night, shortly after incumbent Missouri Democrat Jean Carnahan conceded defeat, an aide to Trent Lott sneaked into his empty Capitol office and placed a bronze plaque engraved with the words MAJORITY LEADER on Lott's desk. The plaque had been stowed in the bottom drawer of the desk since the Republicans lost control of the Senate 18 months ago, when Vermont's Jim Jeffords abandoned the G.O.P., but Lott never threw it away, just in case he returned to the Senate's top job. "I just feel exhilarated...