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Pollitt, Katha | April 17, 2000 issue

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Left-liberals may think they are building a movement by focusing on the highly visible presidential election. In the Democratic Party, the progressive who had the closest thing to a real organization and a popular constituency was Democrat Jesse Jackson. As critics charged and supporters hotly denied, it turned out to be all about Jesse Jackson himself and faded away when his candidacy did; today Jackson is a devoted Clintonite whose main preoccupation is getting Wall Street firms to hire more black stockbrokers.

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POLITICAL parties; JACKSON, Jesse, 1941-; ELECTIONS; PRESIDENTS -- Election; PRESIDENTIAL candidates; NEW York Stock Exchange
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