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...there is a radical heart to Latham's pitch. Like anti-politician Howard Dean in the U.S., he acknowledges that there is something rotten at the core of politics. Latham, who wants more grass-roots participation in the process, committed himself to the great national purpose of "reinventing and revitalizing our democracy." That he did so before the supreme policymaking body of his party was incongruous, given that Labor's power bloc is far from ready to relinquish its traditional role. He identified too much campaign spinning and stage management as a contributor to public cynicism, but did not include...
...opinion is, why bring someone into the league if they can’t enhance the league?” Mazzoleni asked. “We have to be very smart, and allow people to make their pitch. We have to listen to what they have...
Clark has a similar pitch. In his stump speech, quartered into Southern-friendly themes--patriotism, faith, family, leadership--he mentions Arkansas as many as a dozen times. He does not say that after he graduated from Little Rock's Hall High School, he moved away--for 34 years...
...Edwards' pitch to voters--that there are two Americas, "one for those who have everything they need and another for everybody else, folks who struggle every day just to get by"--works only if he can claim to know what it's like to live in the latter nation. And he can. His father Wallace, who couldn't afford college, worked in a string of mills across the South. (He eventually became a manager, something his son doesn't mention in his stump speech...
...template for the attack. Sixteen years ago this winter, the earnest Governor of Massachusetts was favored to be elected President. But Bush pere prevailed, of course, by portraying Dukakis as soft on defense, out of touch on values and lenient on crime. Look for a similar though not identical pitch this time. "There's a lot to mine in the Dukakis-Kerry record," says Ron Kaufman, a Boston-based Republican political consultant who served as political director in the first Bush White House. Republican National Committee researchers have already dug up Kerry's 1988 defense of the Dukakis furlough program...