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AMERICA
Democrats Will Overreach
DISPATCHES
IN THE DAYS BEFORE THE NOVEMBER KEENE
election, with most polls showing
OBSERVATION
Barack Obama poised to win the White
The ACU’s
House, Dave Keene, president of the
president
emphasizes
American Conservative Union, visited columnist
that popular
Robert Novak at his home. His longtime friend reports of
was chuckling, and Keene asked him why.
the GOP’s
“Well, my Democratic friends think they’ve died
demise
are greatly
and gone to heaven,” Novak told him. “If they’d
exaggerated.
been around as long as I have, they’d realize that
it isn’t heaven, and they don’t have a permanent
invitation to stay, anyway.”
In fact, Keene says, Obama did not win for the
reasons the president-elect thinks he did, and he whether to have union representation. If that
can be counted on to overreach, ultimately helping legislation passes, unions will have a resurgence,
.
Republicans return to power. and Democrats will garner more contributions.
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When it comes to astute political observers, The Democrats also want to restore the Fairness
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Keene has few peers. Doctrine, which would require broadcasters to
A bulwark of the conservative give equal time to both conservatives and liberals. , GREENCAS
movement, Keene has headed To date, few, if any, liberal talk shows have been
the American Conservative commercially successful.
Union since 1984. With 1 million “A fairness doctrine will help shut up
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members, the ACU is the country’s their opponents and cut off conservative
oldest and largest conservative communication,” Keene says. “I think they’ve
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grass-roots lobbying group. It runs concluded they can’t necessarily win a debate on
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the Conservative Political Action issues. What they have to do is shut up the enemy
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Committee’s annual conference because their arguments too often prevail.” KEENE/
in Washington and publishes
its annual Rating of Congress,
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the gold standard for ideological
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assessments of senators and
If you’ve ever wondered
spider on the face of a frightened
representatives. why liberals seem so blasé about
person or a dazed individual with
KESSLER’S
Keene notes that, whenever
the need to protect the country
an open wound. The researchers
Republicans lose, the mainstream
from terrorist attacks while
also measured the intensity of the
WASHINGTON
conservatives are for a strong
participants’ eye blinks in response
press runs stories proclaiming the
national defense, a study at the
to sudden, jarring noises.
death of the party.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln may
Those who showed more
“This is only the third time in a half century hold the answer. The study found
anxiety supported strong defense
that a Democratic presidential candidate has gotten
that physiology plays a role in
measures. Those who did not
50 percent of the vote,” Keene says. “The last two
people’s outlook on these issues.
respond as strongly to perceived
Those who are startled
threats did not.
times were 1964 and 1976. And following those
quickly by threats are more likely
John Hibbing, a political
Democratic victories, there was, in each case, more
to support a tough protective
scientist who conducted the
than a spate of stories and analyses saying the approach, including more
research, says those who become
Republican Party was a thing of the past and that
spending on the m litary and
frustrated because the other side
conservatism was dead.”
support for the death penalty,
doesn’t “see the light” on political
and the Iraq war. For the study, 48
issues might consider that such
Each time, Keene says, Republicans have picked
Nebraska residents were recruited
beliefs are, in effect, biologically
themselves up and won major victories. This time,
and sorted by political belief. As
hard-wired.
it will be more diffi cult because Democrats will a gauge of stress and anxiety,
try to rejigger the playing fi eld. They are intent on
their levels of skin moisture Since 9/11, the CIA has
passing so-called card-check legislation, doing away
were measured as they viewed more than doubled the number
threatening images — a large
with the secret ballot in which employees decide
of science and technology offi cers
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