secularism and values

But as the newest face in the party's constellation of leaders, Dean symbolizes two of the major challenges Democrats have in regrouping after Bush's victory. He represents the antiwar wing of a party debating where it should stand on national security issues, and he offers a secular vision of the world at a time when Democrats worry that they have ceded the values of faith and spirituality to Republicans.
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Democrats should become more moderate and reach out to swing voters but should not compromise with President Bush (news - web sites), members of the Democratic National Committee (news - web sites) say in a new USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll...The seeming contradictions are embodied in Howard Dean
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Former President Jimmy Carter, who predicted that elections in Iraq would fail and in the past year described the Bush administration's policy there as a quagmire, this week ended 10 days of silence to declare the historic Iraqi vote "a very successful effort."
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