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...transcends the partisan line. We need to address this issue,” said Andrew J. Martell ’06, one of the few undergraduates in attendance...
...More subtle campaigning is being done by other Senators. In early 2004, the non-partisan Washington magazine National Journal found Indiana's Evan Bayh to be notably more conservative than other Democratic Presidential hopefuls, with a 62 liberal rating, compared with 80 for Feingold, 81 for Hillary Clinton and 86 for John Kerry. But in the last year and half, as he has courted fundraisers around the country for a possible presidential bid, he?s changed his voting pattern a bit. He joined with only 12 of his colleagues (nearly all among the most liberal members of the Senate...
...campaigned for the ruling parties. Schools, hospitals and other government building carry portraits of the respective party leaders, and access to education, jobs and career advancement is often determined by party affiliation. Demonstrations are banned unless they are party-sponsored. "Kurdistan isn't a civil society, it's a partisan society," says Rebwar Ali, head of the Kurdistan Student's Development Organization. "The presidents of the universities, the university council, the deans and the heads of the departments should all be members of one of the main parties, KDP or PUK. Admissions aren't based on merit, they are based...
...media in Kurdistan is extremely partisan and prone to propaganda. There are no independent television stations in the region, and the future is grim for independent radio news, according to Kurda Jamal, head of US-funded Radio Nawa. "Kurdistan isn't suitable ground for a free media," he said. "If America wasn't here and if America wasn't funding us, the parties would move to shut us down...
...However, preemption differs from other ideological underpinnings because it doesn’t as neatly cut across the partisan divide—John Kerry did originally support the invasion, and Democrats generally support humanitarian preemption...