<![CDATA[RealClearPolitics - Articles by Douglas Belkin, Tamara Audi & Danny Yadron]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/?id=23562Author <![CDATA[Protests Present Dilemma for Democrats]]> Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500 The dozens of protesters arrested in Chicago this past weekend and a looming showdown with demonstrators in Providence, R.I., are the latest red flags for Democrats as they weigh whether to embrace the five-week-old Occupy Wall Street movement.

When Democrats talk about harnessing the anger and energy of the protesters, they hope the face of the movement will be people like Jason Dean: a clean-cut, bespectacled, 32-year-old freelance Web designer from Brooklyn, N.Y., who said he goes to Manhattan's Zuccotti Park in his free time to join the demonstrators. "We need to get our country back on track ourselves because our politicians have totally failed us," he said Monday.

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