Word: democratator
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Like Clay, “The Great Compromiser,” McCain will be remembered for his efforts to reach across party lines in the spirit of doing what is best for the nation, such as when he worked alongside Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-56 towards immigration reform and wrote the legislation that created the 9/11 Commission with then-Democrat Joe Lieberman...
...post-election forum held in the Tsai auditorium yesterday. At the event, which was moderated by Government Professor Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. ’53 and co-sponsored by the Center for American Political Studies and the Program on Constitutional Government, Kristol attributed this year’s Democratic success to a favorable political atmosphere for the left, not a permanent Republican decline. He began by saying that because of the recent Democratic victory, he imagined that he would receive “special sympathy, empathy, and condolence” on the notoriously liberal Harvard campus, drawing laughter from...
...spoilers”—like Nader—tipped the scales in favor of a less popular candidate. His examples include not only five presidential campaigns, but also a Louisiana gubernatorial race in which spoilers led to a final vote between an egregiously corrupt Democrat and a former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. In exhaustive detail, Poundstone describes the machinations of political camps as they seek to exploit minor parties for their own gains.Poundstone’s central argument boils down to a repudiation of the plurality voting method. Although plurality voting is widely accepted...
...everyone in Congress, or in Washington, particularly likes Emanuel, 49, the former senior Clinton White House official who just won his fourth term in Congress representing a portion of Chicago and who serves as the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House. Even some members of his own party (including members of the black and Latino caucuses) bear no affection for him, especially those who feel he has run roughshod over their prerogatives in pursuit of some greater goal - like wresting control of the House from the Republicans in 2006, a project Emanuel spearheaded. Others simply fear him. But few people...
...which explains why the caricature of Emanuel in Congress as a hyperpartisan Democrat is both true and beside the point. He is a partisan, in the sense that he is a tireless advocate - but he is that way whether he's advocating for the Democratic Party in congressional races or for legislation on behalf of his President that many Democrats oppose. (Read "Congressional Races to Watch...