Volume 51, Number 2 · February 12, 2004
Hung Up in Washington
By Elizabeth Drew
Like No Other Time: The 107th Congress and the Two Years That Changed America Forever
by Tom Daschle, with Michael D'Orso
Crown, 292 pp., $25.00
As the nation heads toward the November elections, it is now equally divided between the parties just as it was in 2000, but there are some important differences. George W. Bush's radical presidency has united the Democratic Party more closely than at any time since the end of World War II. True, Democrats solidly opposed Barry Goldwater, but not with the same animus. And Goldwater wasn't an incumbent president. Bush in 2000 convinced many Americans, including most of the pundits, that he would govern moderately. (Those who had talked to leaders of the right knew differently.) In recent elections, environmentalists and those favoring abortion rights mainly supported the Democrats but perhaps as many as a third of them voted Republican. In 2004 such 'swing voters' are more likely to turn out for the Democratic nominee—although that of course depends on who that person is.
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