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...NANCY PELOSI...
...first woman to be elected party leader in either house of Congress, Pelosi has practical experience in doing the impossible. She will need it for her next assignment: an unapologetic liberal, she must bring unity and direction to a Democratic Party still smarting from its midterm spanking. As the daughter of an old-school Baltimore, Md., ward boss, Pelosi might just be the woman...
...wonder if House Democrats will someday regret that they chose Nancy Pelosi instead of brash, young Harold Ford Jr., to lead them for the remainder of George W. Bush's first term. Unlike Pelosi, a savvy but utterly predictable liberal whom Republicans will delight in caricaturing as a "San Francisco Democrat," Ford would have been, in his own words, "hard to put in a box." Republicans would have had difficulty pigeonholing a black, 32-year-old, three-term Congressman who voted against Bush's tax cuts but in favor of such conservative perennials as the prayer-in-school and anti...
...Congress and elsewhere is not simply their willingness to take moderate or even conservative stands on issues such as school vouchers or capital gains taxes. Rather, it's the realism of their aspirations for winning higher offices that older black politicians could only dream of. Ford's challenge to Pelosi was premature, but his time - or the time of someone his age - is coming soon. The unprecedented number of African Americans who were nominated for statewide offices by both parties in this year's elections demonstrates that the era when the highest position most African American candidates could hope...
Gore has decided to break cover at a moment when his party is in full retreat, a leaderless army that in its disarray risks solidifying its status as a minority. Since the election, the Democrats have veered left with the selection of a San Francisco liberal, Nancy Pelosi, as their House leader. And they have veered right with a prompt post-election capitulation to the President on a homeland-security bill. It is a family feud over whether to sharpen or blur their differences with Bush...