Just a quick note as we end this primary season:
Whatever happens from here on out, this is a primary that truly tested the nominee and left him and the party far stronger than they were when the process started up.
Too many times over the last several years, it’s felt like the Democratic Party was a bunch of well intentioned fumblers. Sabotaging themselves and each other. Misreading the public. Misplaying the media.
It could all easily come crashing down again before November, but today at least, the party and its major candidates strike me by and large as smart, serious, disciplined, mature politicians, playing to win.
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Primary’s end
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The “well intentioned fumblers” were well represented (Dean, Clark, Leiberman). Immature had only one vote (Sharpton), though he was, for a change, disciplined. Mosley Braun came off as much less smart than I thought she was.
It’s a sign of weakness for the Dems that the only national recognition they could dredge up was from the Senate. Since Watergate, Americans have preferred governors in presidential elections (the exception, Dukakis, losing to Reagan’s perceived continuation). The Dems have few good politicians in that category (perhaps Gary Locke and James McGreevey)–none with long tenures–and the only Democratic governors with any national face at all are Bill Richardson and Mark Warner–bit players and semi-Republicans.