The populist persuasion: the incoming Senate Democrats may differ on cultural issues, but they all like unions and alternative energy, and can't stand drug companies and free trade.(2006 ELECTION SPECIAL)(Column)

NEARLY FOUR DECADES AFTER IT HAPPENED, the assassination of Robert Kennedy still presents us with the greatest might-have-been of the past half-century of American politics. In the months before his murder, campaigning across the country in 1968's tumultuous presidential primaries, Kennedy did something that no Democrat after him has been able to do: He won primary majorities among both African-Americans and working-class whites, even though the white backlash against black militants and against the urban riots of that time was reaching fever pitch.

With Kennedy's murder, however, ...

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