David Gergen actually said...

The interesting comparison, and I know people don't like to hear about foreign countries very much but there was in France, Sarkozy was running as the nominee of a very, very unpopular incumbent party and instead of attacking the incumbent party what he did was offer something -- he offered himself as a fresh kind of candidate and he won it.

10/22/2008

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