But he rejects New Labour on substantive grounds too – contesting the decades spent, as he sees it, triangulating and compromising with the powerful in general and the rightwing press in particular.
The result is not just a change in tactics; it is altering the dialogue of the presidential contest in substantive ways.
It was one of the more substantive television events in the Republican contest so far, set up as a forum where candidates faced the panel solo and did not directly interact, leaving the intraparty politics largely out of it, with the exception of Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, who urged the television audience to give him "a second look".
Election enthusiasts who've been gleefully gossiping for months about the narratives that will frame November's midterm contests got their first substantive taste of the season this week, sparking a predictable, if misguided, assault on the young voters who defined the country's historic engagement levels in 2008.
The Democratic contest this year is both more substantive and more superficial than the Republican.
Policy!" With three months until the first votes are cast in the presidential nominating contest, the eight hopefuls aired substantive policy differences during the two-hour debate on the campus of Dartmouth College.
In a more substantive way, though, the lack of a United States Senate contest in Connecticut is allowing Mr. Lieberman to do actual work, like crisscrossing the state last week to visit schools and push for a major new education bill.
Consistent with this particular form of information-processing is that much of FOX's programming advances a highly simplified view of reality, one in which there is a clear contest between good and evil and in which any substantive discussions of policy differences take a backseat to framing political struggles in apocalyptic terms.
Petitioner reads the statute as if its text provided that all the substantive rules of decision by which a State makes its "final determination of any controversy or contest" must be set out in "laws enacted prior to the day fixed for the appointment of the electors".
Instead, you should help the candidates and the voters grapple with the substantive issues, so Americans, regardless of "class", make smart choices in the voting booth, whether in the contest for Pennsylvania, or on Election Day itself.
