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Occasional\u00a0visitor of our comboxes Kevin Jones offers a review<\/a> of Why The Democrats are Blue <\/em>(Link to book web site<\/a>).\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em>He echoes a near universal frustration, the loss of the Democratic Party as an embraceable choice.\u00a0 One of the excerpts from the book follows:<\/p>\n

The differences between the leaders of the McGovern Commission and those in charge of the Chicago convention were stark. In 1968, the chairman o fthe DNC(John Bailey), the chairman of the Platform Committee(Rep. Hale Boggs), the chairman of the Credentials Committee(Gov Richard Hughes of New Jersey) and the kingmaker at the convention(Mayor Daley of Chicago) were all Roman Catholic; were professional politicians; were based either in the big cities or in state houses; and had a cross-racial, Catholic, and working-class constituency. In 1969, the chairman of the commission(McGovern), the general counsel to the commission(Segal), the chief of communication consultants(Wexler), the director of research(Bode), and the most active commissioner(Dutton) were all either mainline Protestants or non-Orthodox Jews; were predominantly activists or political aides; were based in the universities; and had a largely suburban, upper-class, white constiutency. The leadership of the party was about to change. ( p. 92)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Occasional\u00a0visitor of our comboxes Kevin Jones offers a review of Why The Democrats are Blue (Link to book web site).\u00a0 He echoes a near universal frustration, the loss of the Democratic Party as an embraceable choice.\u00a0 One of the excerpts from the book follows: The differences between the leaders of the McGovern Commission and those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,30,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-mz","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\nWhy the Democrats Are Blue<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Occasional\u00a0visitor of our comboxes Kevin Jones offers a review of Why The Democrats are Blue (Link to book web site).\u00a0 He echoes a near universal\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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