[Mb-civic] Democrats In Need Of Stances - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

Democrats In Need Of Stances

By David S. Broder
Sunday, July 10, 2005; Page B07

The Democracy Corps -- run by three veteran political consultants, James 
Carville, Robert Shrum and Stan Greenberg -- offered a mixture of good 
and bad news for the Democratic Party last week.

In essence, their interpretation of their own latest polling data is 
that the Republicans are ripe for the taking -- but the vagueness of the 
Democratic alternative is limiting the prospects for a major comeback.

<>Although they do not make the point, their findings illuminate the 
most striking failure of the Democratic National Committee under the 
chairmanship of Howard Dean -- the reluctance to create the kind of 
policy arm that has rescued the party from similar doldrums past.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/08/AR2005070801691.html?nav=hcmodule 

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