>In the contemporary context, this would place him closer to groups
>like the Committees of Correspondence and Progressive Democrats of
>America and to fellow radicals like Michael Moore, Howard Zinn, Noam
>Chomsky, and others who have held their noses and supported
>Democratic candidates at one time or another,
Not if by contemporary you mean right now. Michael Moore speaking yesterday about the Dems:
>They're disgusting. I'm embarrassed. I want really nothing to do with them.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/26/michael_moore_on_haiti_the_supreme