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...Instead, the membership followed the trend of the party's voters, and then some: Royal's 60.62% share of the vote among the card-carriers bested her recent poll results among the party's voter base by more than five percentage points. Former finance minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn, whose lieutenants had been peddling the competence-not-populism line, received a humiliating 20.83%, just a nose ahead of former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius's 18.54%. "Now we know that the party membership doesn't deform the will of the party's broader electorate," said party official and National Assembly deputy Bruno...
...alone. According to Paul Clark, the managing partner of the Putnam Ave. location, people still come from all over Massachusetts to look for Cremaldi’s famous pasta sauce. Luckily Petsi kept the sauce, and has managed to absorb a lot of the Cremaldi’s customer base, won over, no doubt, by the smiley staff and best damn pie around. Petsi pie is the only pie around, as far as I am concerned. I went first on a Thursday afternoon and found it suffused with the genial hum of satisfied customers. Think the coziness of Darwin?...
...MYTH: Republicans lost their base. REALITY: The base turned out, they just got beat...
...minority leader with a statement that posits, "I believe that we did not just lose our Majority - we lost our way. We are in the wilderness because we walked away from the limited government principles." But, says the White House's political director Sara Taylor, the difference between base turnout in 2002 and 2006 is within the margin of error. And independent exit polls show the same percentages of voters who called themselves "evangelicals," "white born-again Christians," "weekly church-goers," "Republicans" and "conservatives" as in 2006 as in 2004. "The base turned out," says Taylor, "but independents made...
...opposite party will come and help them out either. After all, if a group consistently votes for the other side, it’s pretty much a lost cause, and the party’s time would be better spent trying to ensure the high turnout of its base...