"Southern voters are interested in solutions," said Harold Ford Jr. in 2003. "They can spot a fake." Perhaps this explains Ford's subsequent decision to decamp from the South in search of a more gullible electorate.
--Jonathan Chait, Nowhere Man, The vain search for Harold Ford's principles.
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Ford's candidacy is an epiphenomenon of Wall Street's retreat into a fantasy world. In this alternate reality, the titans of finance are innocent victims of a freakish accident, the Democrats' struggles result from their hostility to these victims, and the people are clamoring for a leader who will openly cater to their demands. The notion that Democratic primary voters in New York will embrace Ford may be more fantastical than the wildest investment scheme that predated the crash.
pretty much. TODAY is day one. It always is.
TNR will go all out for Bloomberg's Plan C -- fellow Manhattan billionaire Mortimer Zuckerman.
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