In a conversation with the NewsHour’s Steve Goldbloom on Friday, NewsHour senior correspondent Judy Woodruff discussed likely Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama’s most recent statements on Iraq, the Democratic Party’s strategy to play in all 50 states and the death of Republican Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina.
“If they can make subtle changes in their position…and they can do it in a way that is easily understandable to most of the electorate, they can get away with that, no matter how much the other political party comes down on their heads,” Woodruff said.
On Helms, Woodruff said he left his stamp on American politics and emerged as “a firebrand conservative politician, driven largely by his opposition to communism and to what he viewed as just the Liberal takeover of American political thought.”
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