Is Kerry a compromise candidate because Dean made people nervous?
Kerry is this untested, mystery candidate. I can’t think of a candidate who emerged so quickly, almost from nowhere, despite the fact that he’s been a senator for 18 years. He’s got a long public record, but Americans don’t know him. From the Democratic perspective, the danger is that he’s untested in battle. He’s had too many easy victories, and it would be helpful for him and the Democratic Party if he had gone a couple of rounds in which someone had hit him a few times and the press had turned on him. Reporters build someone up, then start knocking them down. It would be helpful to see how he survives that knocking down process. I don’t see him so much as a compromise candidate, although this notion of Kerry being the “electable one” suggests that there was a kind of panic in the wake of the Howard Dean episode. Will Ralph Nader’s candidacy be damaging for the Democrats? There’s no doubt that Ralph Nader was incredibly damaging to the Democrats last time. In Florida and probably in
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