Word: platformization
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...Moreover, supporting Israel is not just a Republican value. As the sole democracy in the Middle East—and also the only country in the region to protect gay rights and equality for women—Israel shares much in common with the Democratic platform. Furthermore, Obama’s unwavering support for Israel may convince those left of center who have their doubts to reconsider their points of view...
...Adams—who had left the presidency in 1829 but was a congressman from Massachusetts for much of the 1830s and 1840s—“a venerable but deluded old man” with a “very unreasonable and unfair” anti-slavery platform...
...club’s membership director, Kwong had overseen changes to the HRC constitution that tied the club’s mission more closely to promoting the national GOP platform. As president, he took a “big tent” approach to Republicanism, expanding women and minority outreach efforts and seeking publicity to promote his club’s more open-minded and mainstream message...
Thirty-two years ago, the photographer William Eggleston leaped from obscurity to notoriety with an art-world debut that the New York Times called "the most hated show of the year." It was a fancy dive from the most visible platform there could be, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. "William Eggleston's Guide," it was called, as though he were taking you on a tour, but one prone to dwell on the sketchiest roadside attractions. In a photo by Eggleston there might be a sunbeam that sweetly anoints a full dish rack on a white sink...
There was a similar unveiling in 1992. Like Obama, Bill Clinton campaigned for the White House on a platform of middle-class tax cuts and a free-market-friendly approach to public policy. The government doesn't "spend" tax money in the New Democrats' lexicon. It "invests" in the future. And like Obama, Clinton saw another version of himself painted by the opposition: a pot-smoking, war-protesting, bureaucrat-loving, income-redistributing radical...