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Back to the Future with the DLC.(Democratic Leadership Council)

American Prospect, The,  May, 2001  by MOLYNEUX, GUY

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The analysis of the 2000 election offered by the Democratic Leadership Council inevitably brings to mind Yogi Berra's great expression "It's deja vu all over again." For the past eight years, the DLC has stepped forward eagerly to take credit for every Democratic success, and just as eagerly to blame other Democrats for any setbacks.

Whenever Bill Clinton was up in the polls, he was being a New Democrat; when he was down, it was because he wasn't enough of a New Democrat. Mark Penn's analysis of the post-election survey he conducted on behalf of the DLC, unfortunately, ...

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