Word: vermonters
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...campaign: Kerryland appears to be arranged not for speed but for consultation. The Kerry campaign at times resembles a floating five-ring circus of longtime Democratic operatives who have all sorts of views, allegiances and ambitions. That worked fine when it was up against Howard Dean's homespun Vermont militia. Against Bush-Cheney '04, a disciplined hierarchy run by Karl Rove and manned by fervent Bush loyalists who take no prisoners, it could be a recipe for a landslide. Second-guessing is taboo under Rove, chiefly because Bush trusts him completely. But it's more like a privilege of membership...
...year ago, I was a field organizer for the highly successful, people-powered campaign of the next President of the United States, former Vermont Governor Howard Dean. What a difference a year makes...
Despite the combined appeal of former Vermont Gov. Howard B. Dean and former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich, controversial filmmaker Michael Moore—the director of the box-office hit Fahrenheit 9/11, which casts a sharply critical eye on President Bush and his policies—upstaged them as the main attraction at Tuesday’s “Take America Back” events, sponsored by the Campaign for America’s Future...
Reich—who spoke immediately after former Vermont Gov. Howard B. Dean at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge—said adults experiencing difficulty finding jobs with benefits mistakenly believe that the problem lies only with themselves. Rather, Reich said, the economy has lost one million jobs over the course of Bush’s presidency—a problem compounded by the need to create 125,000 jobs a month just to keep up with current population growth rates, he said...
...former Vermont Gov. Howard B. Dean, yes, and no amount of convention committee vetting could entirely dampen the sincere righteousness that made him such a compelling candidate way back when. But there’s no denying that this was a different Dean than we knew in January, a firebrand muted. Even Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, D-Mass., seemed more restrained than usual, earning applause that must have been more for his sterling record as the Senate’s proud liberal leader than anything he said Tuesday night...