Word: partisanship
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...campaign, and in tiny Georgetown, the Thursday after the election, the losing candidate rides alongside the winner in the "Return Day" parade. This intimacy may explain why the major statewide offices are evenly split between the parties. It seems Delaware, the First State, pays more attention to personality than partisanship...
...moderate with appeal to the district's Democratic majority, Brown seems to have made good on his pledge to put leadership above partisanship. He founded food, a local charity that gets fresh produce to 70,000 people each month, and organized aid for victims of the 1989 earthquake and 1994 floods. His "less government" message appeals to his Bay Area business supporters. On drugs, Brown is less moderate: death to pushers...
...unbalanced speaker ratio of five Democrats to two Republicans, as well as the notable absence of alternative perspectives such as Socialist and Libertarian, is something that should not have been overlooked in planning HYPE, which claimed to be a non-partisan rally. The partisanship which was evident by negligible anyhow. Politics is about strong opinions, and it is played out through parties. To ignore this reality and supply trite blather about voting obligations--rather than strong campaign endorsements and policy contestations--will not encourage anyone to vote...
...imagination that Americans can so distrust an individual and yet prepare themselves to cast their vote for him. To be sure, Dole is partly responsible for a poorly-run campaign. But it is my hope that America has not sacrificed its moral fortitude in the selfish hope that partisanship and political efficiency--and here, Clinton's administration hardly is at home--ought to be given greater importance than a candidate's core integrity. Trust has formed the core of our nation since its inception and we must not allow it to fall to the wayside in favor of hypocrisy...
...American politics, there are few more powerful factors than the your-own-man-says-so rule. Genuinely undecided voters are often so taken with a break from partisanship that they pay such dissidents special attention. When the New York Herald Tribune, which had helped found the modern G.O.P., picked L.B.J. in 1964, it was a stunning symbol of moderate-liberal disaffection. When AFL-CIO President George Meany refused to back George McGovern in 1972, it signaled the disaffection of blue-collar Democrats. In 1980 I became convinced that Reagan would win big--not by the polls, which were then showing...