Word: factionalized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...party's energy -- in issues that voters viewed as peripheral. Bush captured two-thirds of those who considered "family values" critical, but only 15% of the electorate fell into that category. Similarly, the G.O.P. sought to hold its conservative base by giving a large megaphone to its antiabortion faction. Bush led among those who think that abortion should be illegal under all or most circumstances, but that group made up only one- third of the electorate. Clinton captured the larger pro-choice faction...
Because of their proximity to power, the hired guns in Bush's posse are the most controversial. Charles Black, the unpaid senior political adviser to the Bush campaign, is a partner in the public relations firm of Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly, which represents a rebel faction in Angola; the governments of Greece and Nigeria; and the Pacific Seafood Processors Association, which battled the Commerce Department earlier this year for the right to process a larger share of the $800 million Alaskan pollack catch. James Lake, Bush's unpaid deputy campaign manager, is a partner in the public relations firm...
...ultra-conservative faction exists, but I wouldn't put it at any more than 10 percent of the party." says Harry J. Wilson '93, the former president of the Harvard Republican Club...
...while the far right may be more vocal, the faction of the party led by Massachusetts Gov. William F. Weld '66, who takes a far more liberal position on social issues including gay rights and abortion, is also growing in prominence and size. Many predict that in 1996 the Republicans will be much more tolerant of the pro-abortion rights wing of the party...
Peterson also says the "slower, stodgy process" of making changes in the GOP establishment will discourage a takeover by any one faction...