"At risk of being taken over by the far left"Who said this of the Democratic Party? Not a Republican operative or writer. It's from Evan Bayh, Democratic Senator from Indiana and chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council. This comes from a story in the Washington Post: DLC leaders have criticized former Vermont governor Howard Dean, whose antiwar rhetoric fueled his rise to prominence in the Democratic presidential race, and today, Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), the DLC chairman, warned that the party is "at risk of being taken over by the far left." The choice for Democrats, Bayh said, is, "Do we want to vent or do we want to govern?"A DLC poll shows that while Bush is vulnerable, the Democrats might not be able to capitalize: But [pollster Mark] Penn said Democrats must make a concerted effort to appeal to white voters, particularly men and married women, to make the 2004 race competitive. He said just 22 percent of white men identified with the Democratic Party in his poll, and he said younger men are even more strongly Republican in their leanings. |
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