Word: democratizer
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Being asked, "What are your politics?" has been a rite of passage for prospective editors of The Crimson since 1973. Over the last twenty-five years, however, the range of acceptable, and therefore most common, responses has changed--from "radical" in the '70s to "left" in the '80s to "Democrat," "centrist," and even the occasional "Republican...
Nevertheless, after having been the only newspaper in the country to support Commoner in 1980, The Crimson endorsed the mainstream Democrat Walter Mondale against Reagan...
...Encouragingly for the President, an ABC poll found that no more women than men expressed reservations over his possible dalliances. "If he did it, so what?" Kansas City resident Sherri Ford told the AP. At the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Meredith Oakley merely shrugs. This, she says, is why Clinton's home state called him Slick Willie all along...
...Eighty percent of what was in my [1995] bill was in the Barbara Jordan report," he said, referring to the commission on immigration chaired by the late Democrat from Texas, the first black woman to serve in the House of Representatives from the deep South...
...abortions and promotes instead the more conservative underdog, state assemblyman Tom Bordonaro. (The ads created a stir when local network affiliates refused to run them, saying they described the procedure too graphically.) The Firestone-Bordonaro infighting has been so damaging that some Republicans fear that Lois Capps, the sole Democrat in Tuesday's open primary, could top 50% in the three-way race and take the once safe G.O.P. seat outright. To charges that he is spoiling the G.O.P.'s chances, Bauer rebuts, "Should Lincoln have supported a pro-slavery Republican in order to win a House seat...