The future of American democracy, they said,depended on the success of the progressive movement.
VOA: special.2010.08.05
Former presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi, who came third in the first round of voting and was the favoured candidate of many in the protest movement, said the declaration was a "seizure ofthefutureof Egypt".
The finger-pointing among Republican operatives, and the infighting among conservative pundits about thefutureofthemovement, shows that even committed Republican partisans do not expect Mr McCain to win.