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Article: Anti-Bush anger has energized voters, but ire could backfire.
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- September 11, 2003
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Byline: Craig Gilbert
WASHINGTON _ The rise of presidential prospect Howard Dean has made vivid the depth of anger over the Bush presidency among hard-core Democratic voters.
It has also posed this question:
Is that anger healthy or unhealthy for Democrats?
Some political experts and some strategists on both sides think it's fundamentally self-defeating that "Bush hatred" will pull the Democratic Party to the shrill left, embodied by a candidate (Dean) they see as too liberal and too harsh a Bush-basher to appeal to voters in the middle.
"Ultimately, it's counterproductive," said political scientist Gary Jacobson of the ...