Word: democratic
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...Just how willing they're going to be remains to be seen. "I've never seen the Guard and Reserve in a more dispirited state than they are right now," Rep. Dave Obey, a Wisconsin Democrat, told Defense Secretary Robert Gates when he appeared before the House Appropriations defense subcommittee March 29. "They are a crucial asset to this country and right now they are in big trouble." Gates responded that one of his biggest concerns before he took on the job of defense chief was "that we were stressing the National Guard too much." A key goal for Gates...
...passed - that's why they've been in deep discussions on the issue since the start this year. The positions each is taking now are less oriented toward coercing the other side than toward securing maximum support from within their own party. By giving the appearance of a deep Democrat-Republican divide, they increase the chances of winning their skeptics over to a compromise. Bush and Kennedy will have more leeway to make small concessions on fines or family reunification if each has the extremes of his own party on board...
Instead of demanding apologies every time a Democrat is treated unfairly, the Democratic Party should take a stand and boycott all Fox-sponsored events for the 2008 presidential cycle...
Even campus conservatives Julius D. Krein and Caleb L. Weatherl ’10, affiliated with the Harvard Salient and the Harvard Republican Club respectively, said that they were looking forward to listening to Clinton—arguably the most prominent Democrat in America today...
...hard to know exactly why respondents who are generally unhappy towards - and in many cases fed up with - the G.O.P. might still prefer a Republican for President over a Democrat. Much of it has to do with the individual candidates involved. In Clinton's case, as TIME pollster Mark Schulman points out, "with Hillary the Democratic front-runner, most voters have made up their minds about her, both pro and con. She may have limited upward potential against Republicans. The emerging anti-Hillarys, Obama and Edwards, suffer from low awareness at this point...