THE Democratic contender faced
serious problems: He was down in the polls, scoffed at, unable to get traction. Then came the transfiguration: The candidate-a Washington pro, a total insider, all too at home with the big-money interests-was remade overnight as the compleat populist, wholly at war with all that was powerful. His clothes changed. His speech changed. With the help of Bob Shrum, his media guru, this ex-moderate, ex-technocrat, ex-insider was soon pounding the table in paroxysms of fury at what the interests he had always done business with had been inflicting on “the little man.” It’s the people against the powerful; my fight is yours.
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