Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Second, the 12 new Republican seats in the Senate gave the Republicans direct control of at least part of the Congress and the White House for the first time in more than 25 years. One need only talk with the officials in the Reagan Administration who also experienced the partisan divisions of the Nixon and Ford years to understand what a Republican Senate meant for Presidential success...
...constituency service. Over the course of the past three decades personal staffs have multiplied, district office operations have burgeoned, and members have expanded their personal presence in their districts. Providing assistance to constituents, interest groups and local government units in their dealings with the federal bureaucracy is a non-partisan, non-ideological and largely non-controversial activity that enables modern representatives to convert some who would otherwise oppose them on partisan or ideological grounds...
This development and the general deterioration of partisan ties in the electorate have combined to insulate House elections from national forces. Presidential coattails have weakened greatly since the 1930s. Moreover, the state of the economy and other national conditions no longer affect House elections as strongly as in earlier eras. Consider that in the recession year of 1938 Roosevelt's Democrats lost 71 seats, in the recession year of 1958 Eisenhower's Republicans lost 48 seats, and in the recession year of 1982 Reagan's Republicans lost 26 seats. The five seat Republican loss of 1986 epitomizes the modern pattern...
POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS against judges have no place in a society that values the rule of law. The California constitution, by requiring judges to stand for election, makes the Court vulnerable to partisan attack, crippling its independence and compromising its jurisprudence...
...appalled by the partisan presentation and display of ignorance in the October 23 article concerning the creation of a Women's Studies Concentration. Both the quotations of the professors and the structure of the article itself were obviously biased. Almost all the comments on the front page were negative and were made by male professors not on the Women's Studies Committee. The quotations by professors who are involved in the committee--and thus are well-informed on the subject--are relegated to page nine of the 10-page paper. This makes me wonder about the integrity and objectivity...