Barack Obama is a different kind of Democrat. He is one who actually intends to win.

I don't know if he will or not, but I do know that he has made a key decision: He has decided to run as a candidate for president and not as the leader of a movement.

Movement candidates often fail when the demands of the movement come in conflict with the demands of politics.

The most recent example was Howard Dean's (short-lived) campaign for president in 2004.

Dean was supposed ...

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