Word: establishmentism
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"It's hard to be a reformer and challenge the establishment," he said.
Bradley said his campaign failed because unions and the Democratic party establishment supported Gore and because he failed to communicate that his candidacy was not one of "self interest."
"He energized a lot of voters and a lot of people who wouldn't have voted," said Thomas R. Snider, a Harvard Law School student and a coordinator for Massachusetts Youth for McCain. "A lot of people were looking...for a non-establishment figure."
Additionally, McCain's attacks on the Republican establishment--particularly the Christian right--might compel the Republican Party to reform itself and go after a larger spectrum of voters.
"This news should be reassuring to nervous parents," says TIME medical writer Christine Gorman. Pediatricians may not need to be reassured: While some parents took last year's results very much to heart, effectively banishing light from their sleeping children's rooms, doctors had not been particularly impressed with the...