Word: populistic
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...opportunity, but it's become a colossal headache," Davis said. His friends and counterparts in the Clinton campaign and in student organizations are telling him they share his pain as they also take the heat. "Everyone is getting slammed," Davis said. "This is supposed to be a fair, transparent populist party...
...thing about the GOP race: For all the conservatives' complaints about the candidates, they've taken conservative positions on most issues. Conservatism can be in the eye of the beholder, but with the notable exceptions of Ron Paul's opposition to the Iraq war and some of Huckabee's populist economic rhetoric, the candidates haven't said much on the campaign trail to cross social conservatives, military conservatives, tax-cut conservatives or fiscal conservatives. "I promise you," McCain assured conservatives in his victory speech, "if I am so fortunate to win your nomination, I will work hard to ensure that...
...campaign failed from the beginning, losing out of the gate in Iowa to a populist upstart Mike Huckabee, then losing in New Hampshire and South Carolina to a war hero, John McCain, who had been written off as an also-ran months earlier. More disappointing results followed, and on Thursday, Romney announced that he would...
...Still, despite the apparent differences, the two rivals are essentially cut from the same political cloth. Unlike the plodding technocrats like Prodi who have often led Italy, both Berlusconi and Veltroni are persuasive orators with a populist touch and a nose for how to use the mass media. Berlusconi will be able to make the case that the center-left blew their chance to lead, stumbling and splintering into Italian politics-as-usual. He will ask for yet another chance to remake Italy in his image of success. Veltroni will respond that it is the center-right that is offering...
...That walkout was the culmination of a decade in which stand-up became the voice of the counterculture generation. Like George Carlin, Richard Pryor and other pioneers of those years, the new stand-up comics were not just anti-Establishment rabble rousers; they were intimate, populist artists who got their power by convincing us that they were ordinary folks, with the same gripes and anxieties as everyone else. They joked about furnishing their tiny apartments and riding the subways and trying to get girls. The strike against the Comedy Store, the leading comedy club in Los Angeles, reinforced their real...