Word: path
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...demands are not undertaken by 2008, there is a third, definitely less palatable option, but desperate times call for desperate measures. Black voters could send a very strong message to the Democrats and do what evangelicals did in 2000—stay home until their agenda is represented. Whichever path black voters take, Democrats should know that revolt is in the air on the plantation, and the slaves are finally tired of working for free...
...carry as the only African American in the Senate," says Walters. Says Rush, who has not fully forgiven Obama's audacious run against him: "In my community, the basic desire is to get a black into the Senate. Once he gets in, we can nudge him along on the path that might be less comfortable...
...fate of Iraq may be determined by the answer to a larger question: Will the President continue on the abrasive, unilateral path of his first term, or will he seek, as he implied to Kofi Annan, a more ameliorative approach now that he has been re-elected. A key may be the fate of Donald Rumsfeld. He wants to stay on at the Pentagon, but the President may decide that a fresh start requires the sacking of the man who presided over the Abu Ghraib abuses, the no-bid Halliburton contracts and the post-Saddam planning disaster. The "legacy" Republicans...
Each historical juncture is unique; neither the middle-of-the-road nor the fringe is a sure path to electoral victory. What FDR, Reagan and Clinton shared was a willingness to think big and think new—to transform their parties and the country. The public respected their ambitious visions, and gave them each a mandate to lead...
...point, the bus redirected onto a dirt path when the road stopped...