>If Kerry wins by a slim margin the left (its electoral votes)
>becomes a key player.
Kerry voters have not organized themselves into a single bloc (with lateral as well as vertical channels of communication) independent of the Democratic Party's apparatuses of top-down political mobilization, so they can't be a player, let alone "a key player," whether Kerry or Bush wins.
>The QUESTION is not about which candidate will give more goodies to
>the left, but rather, which President will pay a higher price for
>acting bellicose towards the left.
The president who paid the highest political price for "acting bellicose towards the left" in US history is Richard Nixon, a Republican. Yoshie
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