Mark Rozell
Mark Rozell
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There was a flurry of legislative activity in the Roosevelt years and there were many factions in the Democratic Party which seldom spoke with one voice. So there was a lot of disagreement.
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I think Tom Davis is about as safe as an incumbent can be these days. Davis strikes a pretty good middle ground for his constituents.
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He doesn't want to fight battles unnecessarily and create a distance between himself and his party.
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I remember the conference director said words to the effect that Robertson is one more nutty comment away from becoming irrelevant. Since then, Robertson has made a number of such comments--on China's one-child policy, about wishing for a nuke to take out the State Department building in D.C., among others. It's as though he can't help himself. Oftentimes his comments anger his own supporters the most.