Word: partisans
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...attended by 180 people and five months in the making, boasted appearances from local politicians and speeches from former New Hampshire Governor Jeanne Shaheen, former Florida Senator Bob Graham, and Warner, a 1980 graduate of Harvard Law School. The three politicians did their share of Bush-bashing at the partisan gala. Graham criticized Bush for a lack of “competence” and “candor” before sharing his vision for the success of their party. “I am very happy to be here with these governors tonight. Within these two, we have...
Talk about cold feet. Less than 24 hours after the leaders of the Senate?s Democratic and Republican families had announced a marriage of convenience on immigration reform, Minority Leader Harry Reid ditched his Republican counterpart Bill Frist at the altar Friday, blocking the bi-partisan bill he had backed the day before. Stunned Senators headed to their home states for a two-week Easter recess, furious over the break-up. ?It's a war,? said Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter. Even members of Reid's own party, most notably Senator Ted Kennedy, who had worked for five years...
...Republicans and Democrats - or between conservatives and liberals - have gone beyond the not-very-surprising lifestyle cataloging of traditional surveys, which showed things like the correlation between conservatism and churchgoing, or Democrats' fondness for going to the movies. Rather, the field of social psychology has attempted to peer into partisan souls - looking not at what people do, but at who they...
...Blendon said. “I think most people will see this as a turning point, in a sense that for the last 10 years, there was a sense that nothing could be done in this country in terms of coverage,” Blendon said. Partisan politics didn’t derail the proposal, even though the state’s governor, Mitt Romney, who earned law and business degrees from Harvard in 1974, is a Republican, and the legislature is controlled by Democrats. Unanimously approved in the Senate and passed on a 154-2 vote in the House...
...Poll's partisan breakdown is as follows: 32% Democrat 28% Republican 25% Independent...