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And so for a night in the sagging middle of this Clinton-Gore-Lieberman convention, the liberal lions were let out of their New Democrat cage. It was an indulgence the Republicans hadn't dared risk, but it was one these Democrats couldn't well avoid. Not with star-power...
Tuesday night at the Democratic convention was a case in point. Look at the roster that straitened circumstances forced the Gore campaign to put on. Union bosses. Jesse Jackson. Bill Bradley. Big ol' red-meat, rabble-rousin', poverty-fightin', national-election-losin' Democrats - the same kind of people Bill Clinton...
The hope for such alchemical results may originate in an anti-elitist assumption and an impulse to stick a thumb in the eye of power--the underlying reason, for example, for Jesse Ventura's election as governor of Minnesota or, again, for Truman's victory over the smug little man...
That way, around the corner in the Performing Arts theater, was the group now led by John Hagelin, a nuclear physicist who believes wind power and transcendental meditation are the way to start solving the country's problems. Hagelin, a soft-spoken professor at Maharishi University who is getting his...
"The best-case scenario for my campaign now," says Hagelin, "is that we get those federal matching funds, we conduct a high-profile and dynamic campaign, and we get swept into office the same way Jesse Ventura did. We have three months, and a brush fire is already building. There...