Please click this and help my rating:

July 12, 2003

Among Democrats, The Energy Seems To Be on the Left

Among Democrats, The Energy Seems To Be on the Left

By David Von Drehle
The Washington Post

Thursday 10 July 2003

Ten years after Bill Clinton proclaimed a centrist "New Democrat" revolution, the left is once again a driving force in the party.

They do not call themselves "liberals" anymore; the preferred term today is "progressives." But in other ways, they are much the same slice of the electorate that dominated the Democratic Party from 1972 to the late 1980s: antiwar, pro-environment, suspicious of corporations and supportive of federal social services.

In recent weeks, the progressive left has: lifted a one-time dark-horse presidential candidate, former Vermont governor Howard Dean, into near-front-runner status; dominated the first serious Internet "primary"; and convened the largest gathering of liberal activists in decades.

Washington Post original

Read It Rating: 6
Left/Right Rating: 0
Freedom Rating: 1
Learning Percentage: 50%

Posted by Lance Brown at July 12, 2003 08:26 AM | TrackBack
Comments
Post a comment









Remember personal info?






Email this entry to:

Your email address:

Message (optional):

All contents of this site Copyright © 1996-2003 by Lance Brown for President in 2008. 
Please distribute and link freely; and please let us know by e-mailing editor@freedom2008.com.

Thank you very much for your visit.



Ring of Freedom & Liberty
[Previous 5] [Previous] [Skip 1] [Next] [Next 5] [List] [Join]