The AP’s Ron Fournier suggests in his latest piece that the Democratic presidential field is “snub[bing] party moderates.” Not a single one of
July 25, 2007

The AP’s Ron Fournier suggests in his latest piece that the Democratic presidential field is “snub[bing] party moderates.”

Not a single one of the eight presidential candidates plans to attend the Democratic Leadership Council’s summer meeting, a snub that says less about the centrist DLC than it does about a nomination process that rewards candidates who pander to their parties’ hardened cores while ignoring everybody else.

“They have tunnel vision,” DLC founder Al From said of his fellow Democrats.

Unfortuntely, Al From has it backwards.

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