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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2002

"I’m in the midst of an epiphany. Watching the election returns on November 5, I realized that fear has become a primary motivation in my politics. The political outcome I feared has become reality. The Democrats lost the Congress, and they lost it because they decided to use fear as their platform. And for this decision, they deserved to lose.

How does all this affect Indian people and Indian tribes? Probably not much, really. As dismal as the Bush Administration’s performance on Indian affairs has been, I can’t honestly say that a Democratic Congress would make things much better right now. The reason I can’t say is that the Democrats never told us what their vision for Indian country is. Instead, they told us only that things will be really bad if the Republicans control the Congress. . ."

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Kevin Gover: Why the Democrats lost the Congress (Indian Country Today 11/7)