Word: blocs
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...current election, the main political parties are the Liberals--the ruling party, led by current Prime Minister Jean Chretien and leading in the polls with 44 percent of the decided vote; the Alliance, led by Stockwell Day, with 25 percent; the Bloc Quebecois, under Gilles Duceppe, with 10 percent; the Conservatives, guided by former Prime Minister Joe Clark, with 10 percent; and the New Democratic Party (NDP) with nine percent of popular support...
...Alliance and Bloc Quebecois may be classified as regionalist parties. The Alliance is a new party; its full name is the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance. Its membership is drawn partially from what used to be the Reform Party--currently Canada's official opposition--and partially from disillusioned Conservatives. Like the Bloc Quebecois, which advocates Quebec's separation from Canada, its appeal is largely regional. West of Ontario, the Alliance shows healthy (for Day, at least; most Canadians, however, pale at the prospect) leads in the polls. East of the Manitoba-Ontario divide, responsible citizens balk at Stockwell "Doris" Day, insisting...
...effectively presents conceptualism as a global phenomenon, emerging independently throughout the world in response to local social, political and economic issues. While North American conceptual artists, like Allan Kaprow, started sending small pieces of art through the mail as a critique of the gallery system, artists in the Communist bloc used similar techniques as a way to get past the oppressive censors...
Overall, Democrats increased their previous 46-person voting bloc in the Senate by at least three seats, but not by enough seats to take control of the Senate...
...used to be thought of as a homogenous Democratic white and black vote, and a growing Republican white and Cuban-American vote. But today there are many more independents. And the turnout of black voters was much higher than usual. Also, besides Cuban-Americans there's also a growing bloc of more liberal non-Cuban Hispanics. The elderly vote has become much more of a factor, and the Tampa vote much more heterogeneous. The demographic tapestry in Florida now is so much more complicated than it was 10 years ago, and neither the candidates nor the media took enough account...