Word: democratic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...panel member said that a third party race would not be necessary if the parties nominated candidates who appealed to the middle and faced the nation's problems squarely. "The more successful the two-party candidates are at engaging independent voters," said former Colorado Senator Gary Hart, a Democrat, "the less reason there is to have an independent candidacy...
...quickly is now shaping up as an exercise in harvesting convention delegates one grueling state at a time. The rules under which delegates are allocated - divided proportionally in each state, rather than the winner-take-all system that the Republicans use in many states - make it hard for any Democrat to deliver a knockout blow in just a few contests. But her victory in New Hampshire has staved off a mass defection of fund raisers and prominent endorsing Democrats, as well as the more than 150 "superdelegates" - elected officials, party leaders and others who are delegates by virtue...
...surprising win tonight may cause Romney to switch, again, to framing his candidacy as an anti-Hillary one. He can even keep his "Europe of old" line: Early on, his strategists contemplated bumper stickers reading "Hillary=France." Says Madden: "We're going to continue to draw contrasts with the Democrat front-runner, whether it's Hillary or Obama...
...closure on that." He was also concerned about Iraq: "We've turned that country into hell." Though he was addressing McCain, he told me later that he had wanted to present these thoughts to both of the candidates he was considering supporting in the primary on Tuesday - McCain and Democrat Barack Obama...
...just as fascinating, and potentially significant. While an Obama adviser described those split between the two as "a small sliver of the universe," the campaign is paying attention to it, as "everybody is very conscious of what happened to Bill Bradley in 2000" - when independents abandoned the moderate Democrat and helped give McCain a victory. Amy Pellerin, 38, a speech pathologist from Boscawen, N.H., was one of them. In 2004, she liked McCain so much that she wrote his name in. But this year, Obama attracts her more. "It sounds silly but I like the hopefulness and the genuine quality...