Word: gop
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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During the first 100 hours of the new House, Pelosi has pledged, according to Newsweek, to “drain the swamp” of GOP muck by enacting all of the 9/11 Commission’s recommendations (why weren’t they enacted earlier?), raising the minimum wage, and promoting stem cell research...
...this talk about change has made the Republicans queasy. GOP candidates spent millions of campaign dollars on ad hominem attacks—not only against Democratic challengers but also against Pelosi, even though two-thirds of Americans (by her own estimate) had no idea what she stood for. Nevertheless, she was portrayed as a dangerous liberal extremist who would “cut and run” from Iraq and raise taxes wildly if the Democrats captured the House...
...ATTENDEES PREDICTED GOP LOSSES...
...Burns' concession coincides with the GOP's expected acknowledgment in Virginia that the Democrat there had won, giving Democrats now a 51-49 advantage of the Senate...
...their back. And it was not only increasing opposition to the Iraq war, which voters had all along told pollsters was their biggest concern and which ranked as an important issue to two-thirds of voters. An even greater factor may have been the backwash from a series of GOP scandals, with three-fourths of voters citing corruption as an important factor in deciding their votes. Democrats also appeared to be winning back the constituencies that had so contributed to Republican victories over the past few cycles: suburban women, independents and moderates. Even on the issue of terrorism - which...