Word: reforms
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McCain braved the forces of his party leadership to defeat this anointed candidate, pledging to reform the political system if given the chance. I found his platform compelling for this reason alone, but his strategy of appealing to Democrats to win the Republican nomination seems tactically myopic, or at the very least, deserving of some other conjoined big words. And he lost...
...like a defeated Reagan in 1976--can achieve his ultimate goal of moving politics in general (but more specifically the Republican party) away from its clubby and exclusive structure, or whether this very structure, personified by the grey and plodding personality of Bush, will overwhelm his popular calls for reform...
...Minnesota residents hoped to find a better forum than the current two-party system and were attracted to the Reform Party...
While the party initially found appeal through its idiosyncratic founder, H. Ross Perot, and was later given new life by Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, its current torchbearer, Patrick J. Buchanan, is alienating voters like Davis and Hawkins. And so the Reform Party is still struggling to gain national credibility as it attempts to break the two-party hegemony...
...name-calling. OK, it is an election year, and older Americans do make up the most powerful voting bloc in the country, but all that aside, isn't it wonderful to see Democrats and Republicans working together, even if they can't agree on real Social Security reform...