On this slate, no simple platform for Democrats
by Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times
Apr 15, 2019
4 minutes
In 1992, Bill Clinton won the White House focused on a message so elegantly simple the slogan became campaign legend: It's the economy, stupid.
In this presidential race, it's a lot of things.
Abolishing the Electoral College. Ending the Senate filibuster. Refashioning the Supreme Court. Paying reparations for slavery.
A whole raft of issues that were little noted, if not wholly overlooked, in previous presidential campaigns have assumed a significant role in this early phase of the Democratic nominating contest, reflecting the party's leftward shift, the power of social media and, perhaps above all, a field of contenders the size of a small platoon.
"The pressure on all
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