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Muscovites had gathered not just to hear Sakharov speak (an event that would have been unthinkable only three years ago) but also to nominate the respected dissident as their candidate for the Congress of People's Deputies, a new 2,250-member legislative body that will convene in April. "Never...
At a gathering called two weeks ago to nominate Vitali Korotich, editor of the pro-glasnost weekly Ogonyok, the candidate's backers fell into a fistfight with members of the ultra-right nationalist group Pamyat. Arriving at the rescheduled meeting last week, supporters of the Ogonyok editor found that militiamen...
Democratic moderates counter that the voters have resoundingly rejected "traditional" liberalism and that the party must nominate a candidate acceptable to Southern conservatives if they ever hope to break the Republican lock on the electoral college.
In a sense, both groups long for the same unattainable goal--resurrecting some variant of the New Deal coalition. The left wing deludes itself to think that the Democrats can nominate a traditional liberal and still appeal to "middle America." The last three elections show that they can't. Similarly...
By any reasonable account, Dukakis was the ideal Democratic nominee, even for the party's more liberal elements. After the 1984 election, pundits and strategists consistently called on the Democrats to nominate one of their young, pragmatic, popular, technocratic governors, and to shy away from the tired liberalism of older...