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Article: The Liberal State: in Kerry's Massachusetts, established power meets the reform impulse.
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- The Nation
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- August 2, 2004
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Well, it's nice to be back, I must say, we liberals of the Commonwealth (God save it!). Nice of you all to have us back, too, since your last experience with one of us as a Democratic presidential candidate didn't work out that well. You'll be happy to know that Mike Dukakis is still doing fine, and staying out of armored vehicles whenever possible, and that Susan Estrich, the mastermind behind the 1988 Dukakis juggernaut, is comfortably ensconced in her new career as a wind-up Liberal in the Fox News Channel playroom--although, to those of us who are liberals here, watching Susan Estrich on television giving advice on how to run a national political ...