James Ridgeway of the Village Voice posits that Kaine's success was due to his ties to Warner and the DLC. Warner of course was a big factor, but this is the first I've heard of a DLC connection. Anything to it?
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James Ridgeway says in a Village Voice article
"Centrist Democrats Notch Big Win"
A fiscal conservative Warner speaks for what he calls "sensible center'' in an October 21 article in Blueprint, the DLC magazine. He is a backer of hi-tech education and shows a tendency among other centrist Democrats to forge an opening toward the world of conservative lifestyle issues.
This should be good news for Hillary Clinton. Warner represents her end of the party, and the party's victory in Virginia is another indication she and the centrists are on the money. In this campaign, the Democrats used religion straight on. It is clearly a prelude of political battles to come in which the Democrats will take on the Christian right.
The diaries I've seen here on dKos take some pains to differentiate Kaine's attitudes from those of the DLC. So does this Ridgeway fella know what he's talking about?
Sorry, I'm going to go to bed pretty soon, so I'll probably see what you said in the morning.