Word: partisanship
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...entire U.S. Congressional delegation - he acknowledges the party needs to revitalize its approach. "The old Republican campaign strategy - run as a Republican and turn out your base to get elected - no longer holds. You have to be talking to voters about issues rather than just appealing to partisanship...
...Getting things done is a priority for Specter, a moderate Republican willing to deal with Democrats in search of compromises that produce results. But in a Washington increasingly paralyzed by partisanship, his kind of independence is a rare commodity...
...walk down Main Street in another small New Hampshire town chanting "Oooooooo Bama” and furiously waving a banner with corresponding typeface, I wait expectantly for the one question that will puncture my adrenalin-induced, partisanship-fueled high...
...existed at the time, equally as bad as today's, Kennedy reached across party lines and appointed Republicans C. Douglas Dillon as Secretary of the Treasury and Robert McNamara as Secretary of Defense. If the Democrats capture the presidency in 2008, they must reject the current Administration's extreme partisanship and adopt J.F.K.'s bipartisan approach...
...autobiography, Michael Bloomberg had a blunt response to people who griped about partisanship: "They're wrong!" Party allegiance, he wrote, is "as important as the individual who's running." The billionaire media and finance mogul actually started one sentence with the words: "As a wealthy Democrat who has given consistently to my party." He then complained about all the candidates - "from those running for dog catcher on up" - who kept bugging him for campaign cash...