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...Democrats, the recent trouncing at the polls has triggered a lot of soul-searching. Has the party been too centrist, too wimpy, too afraid to challenge President Bush? Some presidential hopefuls are now vying to move as far from Bush as possible: Al Gore uses words like horrible and immoral to characterize his policies...
...Democrats, the recent trouncing at the polls has triggered a lot of soul-searching. Has the party been too centrist, too wimpy, too afraid to challenge President Bush? Some presidential hopefuls are now vying to move as far from Bush as possible: Al Gore uses words like horrible and immoral to characterize his policies...
...from the entire Gaza Strip and evacuate the 7,000 Israeli settlers there. It's a sharp change from Ben-Eliezer, who as Sharon's Defense Minister oversaw massive military operations against the Palestinians. But it seems just as pointedly at odds with the Israeli mood. Instead of bringing centrist Israelis back to Labor, Mitzna appears likely to poach from other dovish parties in a shrinking pool of leftist voters. "Mitzna has vacated the center and Sharon is sliding in," says Dan Schueftan, a Haifa University professor and friend of Mitzna. Sharon's response to the Jerusalem bus bomb that...
...trying to capture centrist voters and remain immune from charges of lack of patriotism—defined as lack of support for the president’s agenda in wartime—Democrats have stifled the liberal ideas that once formed a clear, ideological platform strong enough to challenge conservative proposals. In this election, the Democrats presented no vision for America...
...like Cuba and the Florida Everglades, to help ensure Jeb will be seated in Tallahassee when the 2004 presidential race rolls around. The Bush camp had hoped to take on former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, whose liberal cachet might have alienated Florida's large mass of independent and centrist voters. But the more conservative McBride, 57, who once ran Florida's largest law firm, upset Reno and made a race of it by championing the youth issues where Jeb seemed vulnerable: the state's abysmal education and child welfare systems...