The popular outpouring he has set off has inevitably drawn comparisons with the democratic uprisings of the Arab Spring.
He argued that it was an outpouring of democratic decision-making, a statement of Scottish popular sovereignty.
Mr. Kerry, who has raised $79 million, is taking advantage of an outpouring of Democratic support after emerging as his party's presumptive nominee.
At one point, Dr. Dean predicted that if he were elected, an outpouring of new Democratic voters would also give the party back a majority in Congress, sending Tom DeLay, the Republican leader who was once an exterminator, "back to exterminating cockroaches where he belongs".
The advocates, who wore black suits, white shirts and black ties, were not actually insane; they just seemed that way because they were so overcome with excitement at greeting the mastermind of Pakistan's lawyers' movement, perhaps the most consequential outpouring of liberal, democratic energy in the Islamic world in recent years.
"This is indeed a sad occasion," Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said in his eulogy, "one to be repeated thousands of times by our fellow citizens across the country". In the Democrats' weekly radio address, New York Democratic Sens. Charles E. Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed deep gratitude for the nation's outpouring of grief and support in the wake of Tuesday's tragedies.
The outpouring of money on the Democratic side has caused some prominent Republicans to respond with a slightly panicked tone.
This past weekend, buttressed by an incredible outpouring of support from LGBT and Democratic activists, OFA supporters, and other progressive volunteers, the United States Senate voted to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell".
"I'm hoping this additional outpouring of interest," he said, will "restore democratic processes to this town".
The impunity granted to Israel is completely at odds with the democratic will of the people, as the current international outpouring of solidarity with Gaza shows.
