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Politics : Those Damned Democrat's

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To: sandintoes who wrote (1366)8/13/2003 6:13:05 AM
From: Zoltan!  Read Replies (1) of 1604
 
This story is curious. It totally avoids the salient point.

It should be "Dem Party is the new third party, weaker now than at any time since the 1920's:



....The poll, conducted for the New Democratic Network, found that slightly more than 40 percent identify themselves as independents, 32 percent called themselves Republicans and 27 percent said they were Democrats .

But these so-called "swing voters" were more than twice as likely not to vote than people who consider themselves Republican or Democrat, a factor for the candidates running in the 2004 election.

"They have to be appealed to in a nonpartisan way in order to overcome their hesitance of politics itself," said Mark Penn, who did the poll for the centrist organization.

Penn is the former pollster for President Clinton (news - web sites) and currently is working for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Lieberman (news - web sites), one of the more conservative contenders in the nine-candidate field. ....

story.news.yahoo.com
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