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Socialist Leads U.S. Senate Race in Vt.
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ May 30, 2005 01:54pm |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Sunday, May 29, 2005 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | AP article on Yahoo.com
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"For half of those years, though, Sanders has been part of the Washington he loves to attack.
In his eighth term in the U.S. House, the independent socialist has carved out a career in Congress as a Congress-basher. Now he is setting his sights on the Senate, and everyone agrees he is the man to beat for the seat now held by the retiring Jim Jeffords.
"He is the front-runner. Absolutely," said Del Ali of Research 2000 of Rockville, Md., which has conducted political polls in Vermont for many years. "He has high favorability ratings, high name recognition and lots of money."
This is an astonishing position for a man who spent the 1970s as a political gadfly and the 1980s as the independent mayor of Burlington, a man who seemed destined for disaster when he first arrived in Congress in 1991.
He was the odd man out: an independent in an institution that revolves around the two-party system; a socialist in a chamber dominated by moderates and conservatives; a freshman in a world that favors seniority. His style was abrasive in an institution that rewards collegiality.
Yet somehow — after some bumps at the beginning — he has made it work." |
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