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from www.atrios.blogspot.com See a common thread?????
Why would any Democrat in Washington talk to Nagourney?
Incompetent.
Nagourney flashback:
Searching the New York Times website for Nagourney's byline from early 2003 to today produced the following results related to overall Democratic prospects (as opposed to the ins and outs of primary results, individual candidates' pre-primary strategies, etc.):
May 27, 2004 Democrats Wonder if Kerry Should Stay on Careful Path By ADAM NAGOURNEY
May 2, 2004 KERRY STRUGGLING TO FIND A THEME, DEMOCRATS FEAR By ADAM NAGOURNEY
April 8, 2004, Battles in Iraq Bring Problems for Bush And Kerry as Well By ADAM NAGOURNEY and CARL HULSE
April 1, 2004 Political Memo; Bad Timing as Kerry Slips Out of Picture By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JODI WILGOREN
March 21, 2004 Political Memo; Some Democrats Say Kerry Must Get Back on the Trail By DAVID M. HALBFINGER and ADAM NAGOURNEY
March 13, 2004 Political Memo; Testing, Testing. Shrewd Politics or Kerry Foot-in-Mouth Syndrome? By ADAM NAGOURNEY
These were preceded by a brief two-week "honeymoon" as Kerry swept the primaries:
February 9, 2004 Democrats See Unified Party For November By ADAM NAGOURNEY
January 29, 2004 THE 2004 CAMPAIGN: DEMOCRATS; Party Leaders Express Relief at the Emergence of Kerry By ADAM NAGOURNEY
Before that, though? For the most part, nothing but trouble:
January 9, 2004 THE 2004 CAMPAIGN: IOWA; Tide of Second Thoughts Rises Among Democrats By ADAM NAGOURNEY and CARL HULSE; Michael McElroy contributed reporting for this article.
January 1, 2004 THE 2004 CAMPAIGN: THE DEMOCRATS; Democrats' Plan for Early Nominee May Be Costly By ADAM NAGOURNEY
December 29, 2003 THE 2004 CAMPAIGN: POLITICAL MEMO; Stumping Gamely, the Democrats Fight Against Most Voters' Holiday Indifference By ADAM NAGOURNEY
December 18, 2003 Candidates in Presidential Contest Are Failing to Move Democratic Primary Voters, Poll Shows By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JANET ELDER
December 10, 2003 Democrats Wrestle With the Gore Factor By ADAM NAGOURNEY and EDWARD WYATT
August 31, 2003 THE 2004 CAMPAIGN; Worried Democrats See Daunting '04 Hurdles By ADAM NAGOURNEY
July 29, 2003 Centrist Democrats Warn Party Not to Present Itself as 'Far Left' By ADAM NAGOURNEY
July 18, 2003 Political Memo; Tug of Constituencies Strains Democrats By ADAM NAGOURNEY
July 9, 2003 Campaign Memo; Tricky Question for Democrats: When Is Open Season on One Another? By ADAM NAGOURNEY
June 15, 2003 A Fund-Raising Sprint by Bush Will Put His Rivals Far Behind By RICHARD W. STEVENSON and ADAM NAGOURNEY
May 25, 2003 THE DEMOCRATS ARE RUNNING, BUT WHO'S WATCHING? By Adam Nagourney
May 17, 2003 Kerry Introduces Health Plan, Pointing Up Divisions Among Democratic Contenders By ADAM NAGOURNEY
May 4, 2003 Democrats' First Presidential Debate Shows Party Fissures By ADAM NAGOURNEY
May 4, 2003 Listen Up, Democrats: Why 2004 Isn't 1992 By ADAM NAGOURNEY
April 16, 2003 Looking at Postwar Bush, Glum Democrats Ponder How to Win in 2004 By ADAM NAGOURNEY
March 19, 2003 Divided Democrats Concerned About 2004 By ADAM NAGOURNEY
-Atrios 10:23 PM
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