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F that’s not a winning message, then I don’t know politics.” Chris Kofinis is talking by cellphone from Salem, Ore., where his organization, Wake Up Wal-Mart, is conducting a rally against the nation’s largest retailer. Kofinis, a former political-science teacher at Cal State who left academia to join Wesley Clark’s run for the White House, believes campaigning against Wal Mart over its allegedly unfair labor practices will be a big winner for Democrats this November-and an even bigger winner in the 2008 presidential race. “The debate about Wal-Mart is a national debate about corporate responsibility, about health care, about the role of China,” Kofinis says. “This is the beginning of a debate that is going to hit a high point in ’07 and ’08.”

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Byron York

Byron York is a former White House correspondent for National Review.

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F that’s not a winning message, then I don’t know politics.” Chris Kofinis is talking by cellphone from Salem, Ore., where his organization, Wake Up Wal-Mart, is conducting a rally against the nation’s largest retailer. Kofinis, a former political-science teacher at Cal State who left academia to join Wesley Clark’s run for the White House, believes campaigning against Wal Mart over its allegedly unfair labor practices will be a big winner for Democrats this November-and an even bigger winner in the 2008 presidential race. “The debate about Wal-Mart is a national debate about corporate responsibility, about health care, about the role of China,” Kofinis says. “This is the beginning of a debate that is going to hit a high point in ’07 and ’08.”