Democratic Unity is More Important then Yesterday’s Debates

October 8, 2004
Donkey Rising
Strategy Notes:
John Belisarius
Democratic Unity is More Important then Yesterday’s Debates
An opinion piece in Tuesday’s Washington Post -- written by Mark Penn, the leading pollster of the “new Democratic” or centrist wing of the Democratic Party -- raises a critical long-term issue – one that must be faced now, even in the midst of the presidential campaign.
The question is whether, after the election, the Dems are going to fall back into the bitter internal warfare that divided the party from 2000-2003 or whether they will be able to preserve the remarkable level of unity that has been achieved during this election. Penn’s article does not directly address this question, but it inescapably arises from the ideas he presents....

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