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Populists have been doing it for years--telling the common man that politicians are against them or that the political process is a farce. The difference today is that politicians no longer need to broaden their appeal beyond a committed, activist base. And they know more precisely than ever what the base wants. The soapbox, which became the sound bite, thanks to radio and television, has gone interactive. If you say it today, the audience will come to you. "There is an interactive element to this. I spend enough time online to figure out what people are thinking," explains Grayson...
...Hoffman, but he has successfully governed a Midwestern state that has a strong liberal tradition. Sarah Palin, on the other hand, has been playing to the base and has the low poll numbers with moderates to prove it. But she was not a particularly doctrinaire governor and could yet broaden her appeal by returning to her reformist past. None of these candidates, interestingly, hail from the South...
Seeing an opportunity to conquer a challenge and broaden his horizons, Munoz could not resist, and left his home in London in December 2007 for a nine-and-a-half-month trip that ended in New York...
...music to the ears of many Tories, straight and gay, who have been trying for years to modernize their party. In 2000 Christina Dykes launched Absolutely Equal, a conference event that ran for a number of years and was supported by several minority-rights organizations, in an attempt to broaden her colleagues' focus. "After the bad defeats in 1997 and 2001, the party closed in on itself," she says. "We were just talking to ourselves." Matthew Parris, now a prominent writer and broadcaster, served as a Tory Parliament member during the Thatcher era and remembers when organizers of his party...
Since assuming the governorship in 2003, Granholm has moved to broaden Michigan's industrial base into such areas as energy and robotic technology - an effort that aims to tap into the skills of the state's sizeable population of scientists and engineers. "For 100 years, we've been focused on the automobile," says Granholm. "So we have an identity crisis." (See pictures of the remains of Detroit...