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Only in the Reform party could Buchanan's be a big tent. His would-be candidacy has already won the support of New York far-leftie Lenora Fulani, who is militantly pro-choice and pro-gay rights but told CNN she thinks she can come to terms with Buchanan, the man who is currently embroiled in a war of words with fellow Reform flirter Donald Trump over whether the U.S. should have gotten involved in World War II (Pat seems more than a little against it). According to Fulani, Buchanan "can play a role as a unifier, bring everybody together...
...moved into action, directing relief where it is needed, working to forestall a second-wave tragedy of infectious disease. Survivors, many of them at first unwilling to budge from outside their fallen homes, hoping to salvage something--if not a loved one, perhaps some hoarded savings--are drifting into tent cities. Amid the uncertainty, both the leaders and the governed seem clear on one thing: the Turkey that emerges from this detritus must not be the same place that crumbled...
...persuaded the pair four years ago to give up their beloved Vineyard because polling found it insufficiently American? Enough with the sailboats and James Taylor crooning You've Got a Friend, he told them. The swing voter wanted to see the family on a horse, if not in a tent, and nowhere near a Kennedy--so it was off to Wyoming...
...that race with the help of a young South Carolina operative named Lee Atwater, who went on to become the take-no-prisoners strategist behind George Bush's winning presidential campaign in 1988. When he became chairman of the Republican National Committee in 1989, Atwater advocated a "big tent" philosophy for the party. Rove pushed the same philosophy after he opened a political-consulting business in 1981 in Texas, where Republicans laud him as the key player in the Lone Star State's final metamorphosis from a Democratic stronghold to a Republican...
...they would leave notes in a box for each actor; they gave general instructions--clues, really--on what to do. If Mike were to confess he'd jettisoned the map, the others wouldn't know until he said it. And at night, when the actors were in their tent, says Sanchez, "we'd go out on our raids and scare them--wake them up, leave things behind. We basically played the Blair Witch...