Word: partisans
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...most closely watched electoral contests last week was not between partisan rivals but over the future of affirmative action programs in California. Proposition 209 on the California state ballot gave voters the opportunity to ban preferences based on race and gender in public education and in state business dealings such as hiring and business contracts. It passed by a healthy majority--54 percent of the California electorate supported...
...likely result of the elections is that the kind of sweeping change and partisan bickering that followed the 1994 elections will give way to slow, incremental change reached by bipartisan compromise, Brownstein said...
Back in 1960, though, Kennedy and Nixon were scorned as the plastic products of professional packaging, exemplars of what one journalist labeled "the Smooth Deal," so much alike that Democratic partisan Arthur Schlesinger Jr. rushed into print a pamphlet titled Kennedy or Nixon: Does It Make Any Difference...
...will be debating and discussing campaign finance reform and other non-partisan issues that young people can come together on," he said
...College Democrats will be focusing on many bi-partisan topics this year, Hanlon said...