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Brisk Primary Season Leaves Voters Out in the Cold
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| Contributor | Berserkeley |
| Last Edited | Berserkeley Feb 10, 2004 12:23pm |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Newspaper - Los Angeles Times |
| News Date | Monday, February 9, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kerry may well prove the Democrats' strongest nominee against President Bush. But there's no way to tell from the hurried and shallow primary campaign that the Democrats have fallen into.
The nomination season's compressed calendar and the choices made by the candidates themselves have combined since the Iowa caucuses last month to drain almost all deliberation and debate from the Democratic contest.
Because the schedule is so condensed, voters in each new state are being denied the time to make independent judgments on the candidates. Because the leading contenders have failed to effectively engage Kerry, voters are being denied even a clear sense of the choices available to them.
The result is a campaign that suddenly isn't about much of anything, except, perhaps, itself. |
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