Word: bases
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...staggering thing about the Democratic Party's sense of entitlement--as in, "We own your vote"--is that it has made so little effort to hold on to its base. Labor, for example. Would there have been any worry about union members' defecting to Nader if the Clinton Administration had spent even half as much time fighting to raise the minimum wage as it spent on pushing free trade with China...
...says Senator Chuck Hagel, the independent-minded Republican from Nebraska. For Bush or Gore, the only possible path to legislative success will be right down the center aisle. "The next President should call 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans to the White House and say, 'You're gonna be my base,'" says Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, a Democrat. "He has to make a decision--work the middle or get nothing done." In separate interviews with TIME, more than two dozen legislators from both parties insisted they are ready to work not just with the President but with one another...
President Gore would face a mirror image of all the problems President Bush would have--including anger from his base if he cuts too many deals with moderates on the other side. And so the first bills Gore would send to Congress would be broad-consensus initiatives the public has been demanding. "He needs to show that this can work, so the idea is to put some points on the board early," says a Gore adviser. "Not get bogged down in big, ponderous packages." The patients' bill of rights is a prime candidate, since it failed last time...
...points with pride to his work from the past term. He has obtained funding for a reuse plan of the closed Fort Devens army base, passed campaign finance reform in the House, added parts of the Sudbury, Assabet and Concord Rivers to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System and been recognized by the Concord Coalition seven years in a row for fiscal...
...resultant disc is a reliable indicator, the reply is...maybe. The latest release from a group whose influences range range from the California hard-core scene to heavy metal tries to be both an album that doesn't alienate their dedicated fan base but still garners commercial success. From the outset, raunchy guitars and charging drums assault the eardrums on "Come Out Swinging", underpinning Holland's atonal shout as he reminds you that even though the Offspring have become mainstream mainstays, their roots still lie in punk. But even as the band seems poised and ready once again to pierce...