Democratic base stakes out election-friendly issue« Thread Started on Apr 21, 2007, 6:55pm » --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Democratic base stakes out election-friendly issues 4/21/2007 7:16:25 AM PAUL KRUGMANread at source> http://www.postbulletin.com/newsmanager ... 12Normally, politicians face a difficult tradeoff between taking positions that satisfy their party's base and appealing to the broader public. You can see that happening right now to the Republicans: to have a chance of winning the party's nomination, Republican presidential hopefuls have to take far-right positions on Iraq and social issues that will cost them a lot of votes in the general election.