Word: populistic
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Gore renewed a populist theme that was successful for him at the Democratic Convention this summer, repeating his support for senior prescription drug benefits...
...other hand, populist though you be, you don't entrust your life savings to a friendly guy named Bud whom you met this morning at the bus depot. You prefer men named Calvin who work in buildings with pillars...
...Mileur said, there is a fundamental hole in Nader's populist strategy...
...Bill Clinton's agenda of the '90s," said founder Will Marshall, who quickly added that "Al Gore has been pushing the New Democrat initiatives that helped produce today's prosperity." But Bush is hoping to get Gore coming and going. If the veep is his "own man," and a populist to boot, that's fine - he's his own man on the economy...
...both funny and not made entirely in jest. Vidal is anything but a gadfly in his preoccupation with U.S. public affairs. He brings to the topic a mixture of nostalgia and estrangement. He inherited strong political yearnings; he idolized his blind maternal grandfather, Senator Thomas P. Gore, a populist Democrat from Oklahoma (who makes a cameo appearance in The Golden Age). But the young Vidal's firsthand glimpses of power as he accompanied his grandfather around Washington were eventually succeeded by the realization that he lacked the temperament to achieve such power himself. That is why his sympathy...