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Ever since Kerry??s defeat Democrats have been waiting for a reprise, but so far intra-party fighting has been kept on the backburner. There have been a couple spats over the past week. Michael Tomasky, executive editor of the American Prospect, posted a column on Monday titled “It’s Started,” that points to a pair of Democrats, David Sirota of the Center for American Progress, and Ed Kilgore of the DLC, who have been having a heated exchange over economic populism, free trade and the relationship between Democrats...
...decides to participate in an illicit affair with the secretary of a member of the opposition party, Mrs. Jane Worthington (Tracy A. Bjelland ’08). Oliver translates, “it’s like someone from the Bush cabinet hooking up with John Kerry??s secretary.” And so scandal ensues...
These simplistic ideologies frequently graced the campaign trail. Despite Kerry??s plan to cut taxes for 98 percent of Americans, Bush was able to use the senator’s tax increase on the top 2 percent to incite clichéd right-wing fears of Washington Democrats “raising your taxes!” And instead of challenging the Democratic base’s comfort zone by talking about the potential benefits of the World Trade Organization, Kerry ranted against “Benedict Arnold CEOs...
...first glance, a moral America is bad for Democrats. If Americans voted their pocketbooks, Democrats would win every time. Kerry??s tax plan was better for 98 percent of Americans. It’s not tough to convince people that they’ll benefit under the Kerry plan. Anybody with the Internet can do that. That’s why Democrats focus on economic issues: they’re easy. What’s tough is convincing people that civil liberties, equal rights and support for the poor are all moral values...
During the campaign this fall, the College Democrats organized weekly trips to canvass in New Hampshire, phone banks to call voters in New Mexico and trips to Sen. John F. Kerry??s Presidential campaign headquarters in Boston...