Word: centrist
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...published a book, “It’s My Party, Too: The Battle for the Heart of the GOP and the Future of America,” criticizing the rightward turn of the Republican party and blaming “social fundamentalists” for marginalizing centrist voters. Whitman’s book was “very brave and an attempt to recenter her party,” said Harvard Law School Professor Jody Freeman. Whitman said yesterday that she anticipates the issues raised in her book to still be relevant come December...
With Sandra Day O'Connor retired and his colleagues evenly divided, centrist Kennedy is the likely swing vote in tight cases. He began to play the role last term--with characteristic moderation. He sided with conservatives to limit the reach of the Clean Water Act but voted with the liberals to declare unconstitutional the Bush Administration plan to try alleged terrorists before military tribunals...
...members to send a message to Washington and President Bush? Pryce is well-liked in the district and won 62% of the vote there in 2004, even while Bush and Kerry were split about evenly. And over the last few months, she's tried to reassure voters of her centrist views, by voting for and bragging about her support of embryonic stem cell research and raising the minimum wage, which most of the House Republican leadership opposed. Of course, on almost all the big issues, starting with the Iraq War, Pryce has supported Bush, and that's what Kilroy...
...House, it will be on the strength of moderate candidates in places like Indiana, many of whom don't support one of MoveOn's top priorities, a timetable for withdrawal of troops from Iraq. And the bloggers are actively supporting and giving money to many of these more centrist candidates. Virginia Senate candidate Jim Webb was encouraged to run and has received more than $280,000 from the Netroots, even though he served in the Reagan Administration as Navy Secretary and was a Republican until recently...
...state that Clinton has a "centrist vision." Are you kidding? She's no centrist, although she wants everyone to believe she is. If she makes it to the White House, the mask will come...