Word: nonpartisan
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...object to Saudi backing of the Sunnis might retaliate inside the kingdom - or Sunnis might take the fight into Iran. "We will have sectarian violence on a level that would likely trigger regional war," says Michèle Flournoy, president of the Center for a New American Security, a nonpartisan think tank. "At that point, you are looking at a path you don't want to go down...
...beginning, as they say, religion in America was a decidedly nonpartisan affair. Presidents of all political stripes sprinkled their speeches with references to the Almighty. Religious Americans led political movements to battle communism and poverty, to promote temperance and civil rights. If anything, the contours of the religious landscape favored Democrats: their voters were evangelical Southerners and ethnic Catholics, while Republicans appealed to Northeasterners who were more private about their faith...
...Smith has almost a decade of experience with grassroots organizing and with young voters in particular. Prior to starting YVS, she worked as the national field director for the Student PIRGs New Voters Project, a nonpartisan group that launched in 2003 and has since registered 600,000 young adults to vote. Since November, she and her team of five have met with the campaign staffs of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Rudy Giuliani and John McCain. Smith has also given presentations to the Democratic and Republican national committees and leaders of both parties in the House and the Senate...
Partisan politics certainly benefit the country in many ways. Nonpartisan problems, however, and they beg for comparably nonpartisan answers from politicians...
...auto executives say to me, ?We're health-care companies that happen to make cars,'" says Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon. As it happens, Wyden has put an elegant and entirely radical health-care plan on the table. According to an independent assessment by the Lewin Group, a nonpartisan health-care consulting firm, it would save $1.48 trillion over the next 10 years...