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When politics is a battle to earn votes, the Democrats can ill afford to turn away a large percentage of the American electorate. Over thirty House of Representatives Democrats representing seventeen different states consistently vote against abortion. On any given life issue, as many as 70 House Democrats will vote against abortion. According to a June 2002 Gallup poll, only 25 percent of Americans support the Democratic Party’s plank that abortion should be available on demand. The Senate’s refusal to bring the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act for a vote before the election brought...
Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), expected to become the new House minority leader tomorrow, is the perfect cure for an ailing and ill-defined Democratic Party. Blaming the Democrats’ election shortfalls on the terrorism issue belies a greater problem: that, presently, the Democratic Party has no clear agenda or message. There is no political leader currently demonstrating how the party differs from its adversaries across the aisle. Now that the Republicans control both houses and the presidency, Democratic success in 2004 relies on how the party defines its own political agenda...
After allowing the goal, Dartmouth (1-3-0, 0-2-0) seemed to lose some composure, icing the puck several times with ill-advised passes. This only served to awaken the Harvard attack...
Democrats were divided on Bush’s massive tax cut; a quarter of Senate Democrats voted in favor of the ill-conceived plan. Instead of disagreeing outright with Bush’s idea of a Department of Homeland Security, the Democrats let the plan languish while they bickered about a minor labor dispute. Republicans have adopted the idea of subsidized prescription drugs, leaving the Democrats with no proposals that match the sweeping innovation of Bill Clinton’s 1992 proposal to extend health care to all people who are uninsured...
Harvard showed no ill effects from its struggles against Brown with a convincing three-game victory over the Elis...