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...attended by 180 people and five months in the making, boasted appearances from local politicians and speeches from former New Hampshire Governor Jeanne Shaheen, former Florida Senator Bob Graham, and Warner, a 1980 graduate of Harvard Law School. The three politicians did their share of Bush-bashing at the partisan gala. Graham criticized Bush for a lack of “competence” and “candor” before sharing his vision for the success of their party. “I am very happy to be here with these governors tonight. Within these two, we have...
...Republicans and Democrats - or between conservatives and liberals - have gone beyond the not-very-surprising lifestyle cataloging of traditional surveys, which showed things like the correlation between conservatism and churchgoing, or Democrats' fondness for going to the movies. Rather, the field of social psychology has attempted to peer into partisan souls - looking not at what people do, but at who they...
...Blendon said. “I think most people will see this as a turning point, in a sense that for the last 10 years, there was a sense that nothing could be done in this country in terms of coverage,” Blendon said. Partisan politics didn’t derail the proposal, even though the state’s governor, Mitt Romney, who earned law and business degrees from Harvard in 1974, is a Republican, and the legislature is controlled by Democrats. Unanimously approved in the Senate and passed on a 154-2 vote in the House...
...Poll's partisan breakdown is as follows: 32% Democrat 28% Republican 25% Independent...
...Partisanship and Geography Differences Partisan differences complicate the issue further. However, these are mainly differences in degree: Republicans more than Democrats believe illegal immigration is a very serious problem (79%-64%), as do white, born-again Christians (76%). Republicans are more in favor than Democrats of providing and enforcing major penalties for employers convicted of hiring illegals (77%-66%), stopping illegals at the border from entering the U.S. by whatever steps necessary (71%-54%) and deporting all illegals back to their home countries...