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...liberal, Kerry told the New York Times in an interview published on Dec. 9 that “labels are silly in modern American politics.” Perhaps he is right about that; certainly it’s hard to take the traditional labels seriously when the Democrats?? best attempt to win this year’s elections was to pretend they were all staunch Bush Republicans and hope no one would notice...
College Dems President R. Gerard McGeary ’04 says Kerry’s prospects are helped by his career accomplishment and by the Democrats?? national convention being close to home. The party recently named Boston its host city...
McGeary said it is important for the College Dems to stay involved in politics on the national level, especially after the Democrats?? loss of the Senate and the Massachusetts governor’s office...
Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), expected to become the new House minority leader tomorrow, is the perfect cure for an ailing and ill-defined Democratic Party. Blaming the Democrats?? election shortfalls on the terrorism issue belies a greater problem: that, presently, the Democratic Party has no clear agenda or message. There is no political leader currently demonstrating how the party differs from its adversaries across the aisle. Now that the Republicans control both houses and the presidency, Democratic success in 2004 relies on how the party defines its own political agenda...
This election was a referendum on the direction of the Democratic Party, and the voters were clearly disappointed by the Democrats?? lack of vision. Frustrated by the absence of a compelling Democratic agenda, voters refused to support candidates whose only message was that their opponents were wrong. Democrats must now heed the voters’ demands for a new definition of what the party stands for—a new set of independent Democratic ideas. No longer can the Democrats be the negative image of a Republican agenda, standing only for criticism of conservative positions. Democrats must have...