The American presidential election: the strategy and political choices of the Democratic party
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In this article we review the 2004 American presidential election, highilighting two major points: (a) the discussions in the Democratic Party after the election of George W. Bush at the presidency in 2000, namely their nature and their backdrop; and (b) the course of the democratic nominee’s electoral strategy, from ‘super Tuesday’ until Election Day. We present the debate between ‘traditionalist’ (alias ‘liberal’) and ‘centrist’ democrats, and the choices -in issues and style- that John Kerry’s campaign had to make in order to depose the incumbent president. We conclude with a discussion about the future of American politics and the Democratic Party, after the astonishing re-election of George W. Bush.
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Ράπτης Ν. (2015). The American presidential election: the strategy and political choices of the Democratic party. Science and Society: Journal of Political and Moral Theory, 13, 204–224. https://doi.org/10.12681/sas.582
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