TNF is 100 percent right on all counts. I wouldnt blame the Democrats for chasing wall street, but they did lose a huge part of their base.
Gore also forgot about a little thing we call math. Had he won New Hampshire, he would've won the election. He should have spent more time there, because he had 266 without it.
Completely agreed on Dukakis and the 1980s.
On a note, in regards to New Liberalism and McGovern and all, the Democras can't win with a limousine liberal. Since the inception of the modern limousine liberal in 1968 (not saying Humphrey was one because that would be mental, but the hippies and all), the Democrats have won a single election with one of those candidates: 2008. They also would have been quite awful opposition if they lost that one. This year, we see a more populist, more labor liberal Obama, and it's no surprise he's doing well in the polls despite a shitty economy. When the Democrats stay true to their roots as the New Deal party, they win. If they try to become the liberal elite party, they get killed. We can unite ivory tower intellectualism and rust belt populism, they most certainly aren't mutually exclusive.
Gore also forgot about a little thing we call math. Had he won New Hampshire, he would've won the election. He should have spent more time there, because he had 266 without it.
Completely agreed on Dukakis and the 1980s.
On a note, in regards to New Liberalism and McGovern and all, the Democras can't win with a limousine liberal. Since the inception of the modern limousine liberal in 1968 (not saying Humphrey was one because that would be mental, but the hippies and all), the Democrats have won a single election with one of those candidates: 2008. They also would have been quite awful opposition if they lost that one. This year, we see a more populist, more labor liberal Obama, and it's no surprise he's doing well in the polls despite a shitty economy. When the Democrats stay true to their roots as the New Deal party, they win. If they try to become the liberal elite party, they get killed. We can unite ivory tower intellectualism and rust belt populism, they most certainly aren't mutually exclusive.