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...Democratic Party has become more moderate since the Clinton years, and in the past two presidential elections the G.O.P. has attacked Al Gore and John Kerry less as ideological radicals than as soulless opportunists, weather vanes willing to say whatever it took to win. As pollster Ruy Teixeira has noted, surveys in recent years show Democrats trailing the G.O.P. by more than 20 points when it comes to "know[ing] what they stand...
Amidst widespread criticism of its failure to provide security in Haiti, the morale of the 9,000-strong United Nations Stabilization Mission (MINUSTAH) took another blow Saturday with the death of its Brazilian commander, 58-year-old Lieutenant General Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar. The shooting - an unconfirmed suicide according to Haitian news radio reports - occurred early Saturday on the patio of his apartment in the luxurious mountainside Montana Hotel, where many connected with the UN mission have taken up part-time residence...
...while the name Clinton may send Democratic true believers into states of political rapture, both husband and wife remain highly polarizing figures among the broader electorate. "Democrats have a problem with middle-to-low-income voters who are culturally conservative," says Teixeira. "I think Hillary still annoys them." Few things could excite the passions of the "vast right-wing conspiracy"--as Clinton once called her husband's enemies--or motivate the Republican base more than the prospect of a President Hillary Clinton. "I'm one of the few in the semi--inner circle who don't think...
...instead of harping on what Ruy Teixeira, co-author of The Emerging Democratic Majority, calls "the same debate Democrats have been having for 20 years--should we be more populist or more centrist?"--activists from various factions may focus on working together against a common enemy. "Just because they lost, these people are not going to be any more disposed toward the Republican Party," says Teixeira. "We're seeing the emergence of a new Democratic Party. It's more pragmatic and less ideological. And it's unified in its desire to defeat a Republican Party that's widely viewed...
...sports, television, movies and the rest of our selfish interests. The media cover only as much as we want to watch. The death of 50,000 people is no more important to us during this election season than are the ties the candidates wear during the debates. Joseph T. Teixeira Jr. Bristol...