A ripe combination of optimism and nervousness was apparent at a DLC strategy session on winning the West. The roomful of county commissioners, state legislators and policy wonks agreed that a growing number of westerners are fed up with Republicans in Washington for “overreaching,” in Jent’s term, on everything from the assisted suicide of the brain-damaged Florida woman, Terri Schiavo, to the war in Iraq.
Raasch: Democrats’ narrowly cast strategies of the past may haunt them in ’06
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These same voters are upset at Mr. Lieberman's lecturing of Mr. Clinton for his personal behaviour in the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and for his support of Mr. Bush over the case of Terri Schiavo, the brain-dead Florida woman who was allowed to die last year despite opposition from right-to-life politicians.
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