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The DLC flunks politics 101: why Democrats need their base--as well as swing voters. (Gazette).(Democratic Leadership Council )
American Prospect, The, January, 2003 by Borosage, Robert L.
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> DEMOCRATS HAVE A PENCHANT for circular firing squads, particularly in the wake of electoral defeat. Once more, a first salvo has come from the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), which has made its name sniping at other Democrats. In a confidential memorandum on the "Road Ahead," the DLC's Al From and Bruce Reed surveyed the 2002 election and decided--why does this not surprise?--that the party's problems are being "too liberal" and focusing too much on its base at the expense of the "forgotten middle class." Its salvation can only come by lurching to ...
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