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...while the Democrats were managing that rare feat: selecting a nominee without destroying him in the process. By focusing their fire on Bush more than on one another, Democrats were succeeding in making the nomination process one long, free commercial attacking the President from every direction in one swing state after another. Dean's broadsides, in which he called the Bush White House not just a failure but "the most dangerous Administration in my lifetime," served the dual purpose of channeling the anger of the Democratic base while letting the other candidates sound almost measured in comparison...
...wiped out the day before. Someone hollered out three names, including mine, to stay behind. The colonel in charge, who had heard me play, wanted me to form a band that would play for the men returning from the front. Called the Wolf Pack Band, we would play mostly swing tunes. We probably entertained more frontline troops than any other military band...
...final score would swing in the other direction on Saturday as the team lost a painfully close match...
...initial momentum appeared to swing in Harvard’s favor, as the team jumped on its traveling partner early and often. The Crimson outshot Brown by six in the first period and won 23 of 28 faceoffs...
Whoever winds up with the Democratic nomination will have to vie with President Bush not just in turning out the party faithful but also in wooing swing voters. In nearly every election, pollsters and pundits settle on at least one demographic du jour--the voting bloc that could (and sometimes does) turn the election. A look at the target voters in presidential elections over the years...