What's new: White House says Dems have turned radical on war

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What's new: White House says Dems have turned radical on war« Thread Started on Sept 28, 2007, 5:46pm » --------------------------------------------------------------------------------What's new: White House says Dems have turned radical on warSome of the campaign and political news making headlinesread at source> http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/20 ... 15.htmlThe Examiner -- White House says the presidential campaign has turned Democrats radical: The newspaper continues its series of excerpts from reporter Bill Sammon's new book. "President Bush's chief of staff says White House officials misjudged how much the presidential campaign would radicalize the Democratic Party against the Iraq war. In an interview for the new book, The Evangelical President, White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten said he and other administration officials did not expect the Democratic presidential candidates to pull their party so sharply to the left. 'A lot of us probably underestimated the potency of presidential politics in all of this,' Bolten told The Examiner in his West Wing office. 'The need of every candidate to remain in good stead with the Democratic Party’s left wing has pretty dramatically dragged not just the candidates, but the whole party to the left.' Bolten said the phenomenon has been accelerated by the fact that primary elections and caucuses for the 2008 presidential cycle are scheduled earlier than ever before, creating pressure on the candidates to pacify the party's liberal base."