Word: democrats
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...statehooder and a Democrat, but it wouldn't be fair to say I was here advocating for statehood. I was here advocating for the Young bill," he said...
Whitman also has party problems. New Jersey is increasingly Democratic turf. Clinton carried it by 18 percentage points in 1996, and Democrat Robert Torricelli won last year's Senate race by 10 points. Whitman is also learning how perilous life is these days for moderate, pro-choice, pro-gay rights Republicans like herself. Only 67% of New Jersey Republicans rated her favorably in a recent poll. Her veto of a partial-birth-abortion ban alienated many conservatives in this highly Roman Catholic state. The Christian Coalition plans to distribute 1 million election guides reminding voters of her stance. The beneficiary...
...most part, the rest of the old-time liberal coalition is not budging. Last month the N.A.A.C.P. joined with the liberal People for the American Way to organize an antivoucher demonstration in Philadelphia. "The N.A.A.C.P. is out of touch," says Congressman Floyd Flake, a New York Democrat. "The next wave of the civil rights movement will be demand for choice in schools." All the same, when the House voted earlier this month to approve a Republican proposal for a $7 million voucher plan for Washington--a basket-case system where by some calculations 40% of the kids drop out before...
Kennedy is the ranking Democrat on the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, which oversees the reauthorization in the Senate...
Indeed, there was little Republican left in me by 1992. Exposure to history in high school, to political philosophy through Lincoln-Douglas debate, to current events from the newspapers had all convinced me that I was a Democrat at heart. Pat Bacchanal's xenophobic and bitterly homophobic rhetoric at the 1992. Republican convention make me not just a Democrat, but a Democrat infuriated at and disgusted by much of the Republican party...