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...With reporting by Simon Crittle/New York; Viveca Novak, Mark Thompson and Douglas Waller/Washington; and Nathan Thornburgh/Hyndman...
...Enter the New Democrat Network, which began life in 1996 as a political action committee-that is, a group able to raise money and donate it to candidates. It was led by a From and Joe Lieberman protege named Simon Rosenberg who, at age 40, is a generation younger than From and markedly less combative. Until this year, the ndn was regarded, accurately, as a DLC clone. But a serious rift has opened between the two groups. "There's a debate in the New Democratic world about where we are going," Rosenberg told me diplomatically. "And if it's true...
...Rosenberg says the rift is more style than substance. From says it's about Howard Dean. "Simon jumped on the Dean bandwagon and abandoned the New Democratic movement because he wanted to be a player," From says, making the dispute public for the first time. "Dean didn't work out and now I guess he's trying the next thing...
...Simon W. Vozick-Levinson...
...Staff writer Simon W. Vozick-Levinson can be reached at vozick@fas.harvard.edu...