Capital Games - David Corn - The Nation

[Cassandra]

http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=1207

"There is the Angry Populist, the Calm Populist, the Polite Populist, the Executive Populist, and the Radical Populist. That's who racing across New Hampshire chasing Democratic and independent voters in the days before the first presidential primary of 2004. Oh, there's also Joe Lieberman.
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Kerry is, by nature, cautiously passionate. A little anger is not a bad idea for him; it allows him to emote, which has not been his strong suit as a candidate.
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Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean is now the calm one. He is more interesting to watch than Kerry, for he has the more difficult challenge. He has had to rejigger his approach. That has entailed burnishing his image as a responsible and straight-talking governor of many accomplishments while also maintaining his insurgent take-back-America message.
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Will Edwards' kinder, gentler populism play? He does have one heckuva pleasant and persuasive manner. New Hampshire voters--and Democrats elsewhere--looking for populism with a smile and a down-home drawl will be tempted."

etc. Lots more in an enjoyable editorial.

[kentuck]

1. Very complimentary to Dean and Kucinich.....

Kucinich's ideas are what our nation needs. Unfortunately, they pay little attention to the messenger.

[dsc]

3. I think Kucinich blew it when he changed his position on abortion

I have no idea if Dean could have won the primaries had he run as a pro life, pro worker candidate but he sure could have done quite well. Close to 1 in 4 Democratic voters are pro life and many of them are economic leftists like he is. After all they are voting against their position on a pretty important issue so on the other issues they must be quite strong. I wish Kucinich had run that race instead of the one he ran.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. I found this humorous:

Then Edwards left in his campaign bus, dubbed the "Real Solutions Express"--which is not to be confused with Kerry's bus, "The Real Deal Express."