Word: electabilityã
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Race-based politics are nothing new, of course—you can trace the effect of racial issues on government all the way from the civil rights movement to the debate over Barack Obama’s “electability?? raging today. Whether or not the Indian vote actually affected the election, however (the magnitude of Jindal’s victory makes it unlikely), it’s a pity that so many influential members of the Indian community unquestioningly followed the lead of a man with whom they shared only superficial similarities...
...elected. Political ideology, personality, campaign experience, and characteristics like race, gender, and religion have all been cited as potential deciding factors in the upcoming presidential race. With such disagreement on which of these factors will prove most important, national polls seem the only true way to gauge electability??but as we’ve seen, the polls show no clear trends...
Kerry kite-surfed the mystical wave “Electability?? to the Democratic presidential prize—persuading jittery Deaniacs, and Washington-based party wiseguys, that an elite Massachusetts liberal (but an elite Massachusetts liberal with medals!) would be the strongest candidate against the most sophisticated, most impressively well-constructed GOP campaign in American history...
...issues were just intellectual disputes where reasonable people would naturally disagree. He portrayed policy issues as moral crusades, and he asked his audiences to join him in fighting these battles. The “anger” that led some to question Dean’s “electability?? convinced Denise, and many others like her, that these causes were worth fighting...
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