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Article: COLUMN: Green Party represents future of U.S. politics
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- March 27, 2001
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Sarah Turner
University Wire
03-27-2001
(The Daily Cardinal) (U-WIRE) MADISON, Wis. -- In the last three months of the presidential election, the Democratic Party turned the majority of its attention away from the Republican Party and attacked the Green Party with a ferocity comparable to wild dogs. From the Democrats' tone, one would have thought the Green Party was advocating setting puppies on fire and other equally atrocious acts of deviance.
Democratic Party spin doctors made the bold assertions that they were the party that fought for "working families." They were going to "fight for you." Al Gore even went so far as to say the big oil companies wanted the public to vote Green. So, ...