Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Malcolm Matheson. "Both of them were small men and tough and scrappy. This man can do no other than that." His campaigns were less about issues and ideas than about hard work and grit. For him, the political is personal. He didn't much care whether you were a Democrat or a Republican, only whether you were with him or against him. His first tutor in politics, in fact, was Arizona's Democratic Senator Morris Udall. And with a prisoner's hungry reflex, McCain always had an eye for an opportunity. "I see an opening," he says...
...well in the real world I'm a democrat, and I mean my family is one of the biggest Irish democrat political machine families...
...year after Barrios, a young Democrat from Cambridge, won his State Representative seat, he is showing that Barrios also means results...
Indeed, Bush's success so far comes in part from nourishing political yearnings on both sides of his party. He sounds almost like a Democrat when he says saving Social Security is a high priority, but he makes like a conservative Republican when he adds that privatizing part of the system is the way to do it. In his Meet the Press interview, Bush broke with his party by endorsing the right of patients to sue their HMOs, but he burnished his social-conservative credentials by declining to meet with the leading group of gay Republicans. He's against hate...
...mainstream environmental groups that Clinton in 1982 would have counted among his natural allies are now moved to mount the biggest protests America has seen since the Vietnam War speaks volumes about the politics of the Clinton era. The centerpiece of the President's "Third Way" or "New Democrat" ideology was to challenge the Republicans' traditional monopoly on being the party of business. The Clinton administration may have have blown hot and then cold on its liberal advocates over the past seven years, but its bottom line has consistently been the bottom line of America...