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...June 2010 and Westminster is abuzz with rumors of a March poll - public concerns are fomenting splits among the parties. Labour and its chief opponents, the Conservatives, remain committed to the NATO mission, but are trading blows over the treatment of troops and future defense investment plans. The Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg suggested in an article this summer that troops' "lives are being thrown away because our politicians won't get their act together," while two smaller parties, the Greens and the far-right British National Party, are demanding the immediate withdrawal of British troops. (See pictures of Afghanistan...
Coleman—a former Democrat who was elected as a Republican senator from Minnesota in 2002 and lost a controversial 2008 reelection bid to Al Franken ’73—described center-right views as “moderate in tone” but “bold in scope and passion...
...Harvard Crimson: You were once an outspoken Democrat but switched to the Republican Party in 1996. What motivated you to switch parties...
...Boston Celtics basketball team is also partially owned by Stephen Pagliuca, a Democrat running for the open Massachusetts Senate seat and a managing director at Bain Capital...
...enthusiastic about compromise. When Obama finally reached out to Stupak in mid-September, after the White House was stunned to learn that the Capps amendment hadn't eliminated pro-life concerns, it was with an impatient message. "Look, try to get this thing worked out among the Democrats," Stupak said Obama told him, according to the New York Times. Others wish Obama had played the role of negotiator himself. "I wish the White House had stepped in," said one Catholic Democrat involved in negotiations. "The President is very good at getting people to talk to each other - we really could...