PolitiScope: Nancy vs. Nancy
November 10, 2006
| 12:31 PM
Call it the tale of two Nancys. One, Nancy Pelosi, is a San Francisco liberal who rode a fervent anti-Bush wave this week to achieve her dream of capturing the House and, presumably, the Speaker's gavel. The other, Nancy Boyda, is a moderate Dem who this week captured the same rural House district in KS that handed Pres. Bush a 20-point victory two years ago. Pelosi and Boyda will have to work together in the new Democratic-led House, their agendas both confluent and conflicting. And as John Mercurio writes, it's freshman Dems like Boyda, and Pelosi's response to them, that will largely determine whether their party's reign on Capitol Hill endures.
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