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Long Thompson, who served three terms in the House and as Under Secretary of Agriculture in the Clinton Administration, has countered the avalanche of G.O.P. cash by going populist. She walked the 100-mile length of the district from Kokomo to South Bend shaking hands, wearing a baseball cap and sending out her message that her opponent is a wealthy ceo out of touch with the grass roots. Chocola, a political neophyte, doesn't try to hide his pinstripes. He motors between campaign stops in a red humvee and usually wears a suit and power tie. His message is that...
Luiz In?cio Lula da Silva couldn't have picked a worse time to launch a presidential campaign. That was back in 1989, his first bid for Brazil's presidency, when he was still a radical, left-wing populist yammering for Brazil to default on its foreign debt even as Brazil - and the rest of Latin America - were embarking on a decade of free-market reforms and fiscal austerity. Lula still finished second in 1989, as he would in 1994 and '98; but nightmares of the region's "Lost Decade" of the 1980s - when Latin American socialism had produced inflation rates...
...Populist historian and Boston University professor Howard Zinn endorsed the Massachusetts Green Party’s gubernatorial candidate on Saturday in Cambridge’s First Parish Church...
...Long Thompson, who served three terms in the House and as Under Secretary of Agriculture in the Clinton Administration, has countered the avalanche of g.o.p. cash by going populist. She walked the 100-mile length of the district from Kokomo to South Bend shaking hands, wearing a baseball cap and sending out her message that her opponent is a wealthy ceo out of touch with the grass roots. Chocola, a political neophyte, doesn't try to hide his pinstripes. He motors between campaign stops in a red humvee and usually wears a suit and power tie. His message is that...
Success in populist politics depends on the party leader's jugular instinct for voter discontent. But can a populist party succeed without its leader? That's the dilemma facing List Pim Fortuyn (LPF), the second-largest party in the Dutch government, which formally presented its legislative program last week. Pim Fortuyn, the party's charismatic founder, shattered the comfortable consensus of Dutch politics with his critique of the mainstream parties and his tough talk on immigration. Since he was slain just days before last May's election, the LPF has been trying to plumb a line through rough leadership battles...