Word: base
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Weatherl also drew criticism when he brought Bush campaign strategist Karl Rove to campus. Undergraduate Democrats saw Rove’s appearance as pandering to the GOP’s anti-intellectual evangelical base, and a far cry from Kwong’s manifesto of tolerance and inclusion...
...There’s nothing wrong with appealing to the base of the Republican Party,” says Weatherl, who lists pro-life policies, homeland security, and traditional family values as the keystones of the Republican platform. “I don’t think that that appeal to middle America is necessarily something that contrasts with intellectual debates. You can argue those issues that are important to the base in an intellectual...
...height of Nkunda's campaign, government troops were on the run. Goma, the eastern city that is home to countless aid groups and hundreds of thousands of refugees, stood open for the taking. U.N. peacekeepers were reportedly holed up and surrounded at one base 55 miles north of Goma, rationing food and running out of water. But as rumors spread that Goma's fall was imminent, Nkunda declared a cease-fire and halted his advance. By the end of the week, the havoc wreaked in Goma had been caused chiefly by Congolese government soldiers, who stole cars, looted businesses...
...Sarah Palin. John McCain's Veep passed from surprise (who is this woman?) to novelty (beauty queen who shoots moose) to scandal (her daughter's pregnant) to obituary (will McCain drop her?) to resurrection (she's a pit bull with lipstick) to skepticism (but can she appeal beyond the base?) at the speed of a snowmobile...
...defeated the bill, sending the stock market crashing and swinging the momentum to Obama. A steady parade of prominent Republicans jumped ship. McCain's aides and supporters began the ritual finger-pointing that is the political version of hospice care, while Palin and others dear to the gop base subtly started jockeying for advantage...