Word: republican
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...biggest setback for conservatives came in a special election for the upstate seat, won by a Democrat for the first time in generations. The Republican in the race bowed out after being deemed too liberal by national figures like Sarah Palin, who backed Hoffman. His loss may complicate conservatives' 2010 electoral strategy...
...ticket’s equally neon green web site, designed by Punit N. Shah ’12, expresses the success of the candidates’ campaign thus far. Both the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard Republican Club currently endorse Bowman and Hysen, along with a handful of other organizations including the Alaska Klub...
...only one who has stated flat-out that he would join a GOP filibuster of the bill to prevent it from getting an up-or-down vote. And unlike his other moderate Democratic colleagues, he has claimed he's not even open to the compromise proposal that Republican Senator Olympia Snowe has been pushing - a so-called trigger mechanism whereby a state would be able to access a national public option only when the private sector was not providing enough affordable plans of its own. At a time when Senate Democrats are trying to avoid the mistake their House colleagues...
...inner circle since the early days of his presidential campaign. Among other things, he is credited with seizing on John McCain's comment in the midst of last year's financial crisis that the "fundamentals of the economy are strong" - a line of attack that proved devastating to the Republican. The role of communications director has received unusual attention in recent weeks, with Dunn leading a sharp campaign against the Fox News Channel for being "part of the Republican party." Pfeiffer is widely expected to maintain that combative stance on the Administration's behalf. (Read "How They Did It: David...
...into the reporter at cocktail parties, and they keep asking for the candidate's time. We could laugh every time our opponents would do them." - Citing an advantage of headquartering the Obama campaign in Chicago rather than Washington. (New York Times, Dec. 17, 2008) (Read "The Rebirth of the Republican Middle...