Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sure sign that true answers aren't easy to come by when the far right and the far left agree. This, though, doesn't excuse the Democrat's failure to provide alternatives to the Republican agenda...
...three days of acrimonious debate, the Senate took a vote that Bork himself had requested to cut off the vituperation. Result: 58-42 against confirmation, the largest negative vote in history for a Supreme Court nominee. Joining the 54 Senators who had declared their opposition to Bork were Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire and three surprises: Virginia Republican John Warner, Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn and Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, the Senate's conservative senior member...
Total Republican Independent Democrat...
While 41% of those questioned think it would be better to have a Democrat as the next President, 28% want a Republican, and 22% said it makes no difference. Nevertheless, 65% said last week they want a President who will follow different policies from the Reagan Administration's (up from 57% in a TIME survey last August...
...sleepy high school class in Sioux City, Iowa, on the global economy, complete with chalk diagrams. Gore jettisoned his standard text and went after the President with lines like "What crashed on Monday was not only the stock market but Reaganomics as well." Still, Bruce Babbitt remains the only Democrat to confront the deficit boldly, especially with his underdog challenge to middle-class entitlement programs...