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best way to win candidate centered elections is big early primary (and
iowa caucus) wins forcing other candidates to drop out and jump on
board, no differences at convention, pick vp running mate from second
largest faction...
for what little it's worth,
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On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
Dean
would certainly be
a great improvement over Bush, but that's a low standard.
But a necessary one, IMHO. There is no point is asking the present-day
Dems to deliver what they haven't. That's a long term
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
Dean is a lot like Clinton, programmatically speaking. I see little
trace of pro-working class politics, with the exception of a reasonable
stab at health care and his criticism of the war. He would certainly be
a great improvement over Bush, but
The Howard Dean phenomenon in the USA just mirrors the Pim Fortuyn saga in
the Netherlands. The official bourgeois parties no longer do anything much
to improve the lot of the people, their themes no longer appeal, and they
are too rich and intellectually too lazy to worry about it. On the other
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Subject: [PEN-L] Howard Dean and the future of blogger politics - a
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The Howard Dean phenomenon in the USA just mirrors the Pim
Fortuyn saga in
the Netherlands. The official bourgeois parties no longer do
anything much
to improve the lot of the people, their themes
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James
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whatever one says about Howard Dean, he does not seem like Pym Fortuyn at
all
Well, this shows you the problem-fraught nature of genuine internationalism,
I start making comparisons which don't really hold up. In which case, I
shouldn't really be commenting on American politics and economics.
Of course I am vitally interested in America, it has an enormous influence
on the
