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THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEFEAT There was a certain purity to John Kerry's failure in 2004: when it came to religious voters, as the saying goes, he never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
The reception warmed only slightly when she graduated to the Kerry campaign. "I got my first insight into how behind the Democrats were," she recalls. Not long after she joined the campaign, a handful of Catholic bishops who denounced Kerry's position on abortion publicly suggested that he should be...
Additionally, many of the independents who switched their party vote in the last two presidential elections voted Democrat when Kerry was running in 2004, but not when Al Gore '69 was the party's nominee in 2000.
The findings of the study bode well for Democrats entering the run-up to the 2008 election. Though independents were divided between John Kerry and George W. Bush in the 2004 election, they proved invaluable in helping Democrats win both the House and the Senate in the 2006 midterm election...
Such youth outreach this early on in an election season is unprecedented by Democrats, says Alexandra Acker, executive director of Young Democrats of America. Acker served as the youth outreach coordinator for John Kerry in 2004, but she wasn't brought on staff until after the primaries. "The biggest difference...