How To Use Democrat In A Sentence
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If you interview a lot of conservative Democrats, even in states like Texas, you know, New Mexico, they are very concerned that Hillary Clinton on the top of the ticket would really kind of depress voter turnout and ultimately affect a lot of down ballot races.
CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2008
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The Liberal Democrats are also being coy and modest.
Times, Sunday Times
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But what of the emails, text messages and other private communications between government officials which aren't published online -- will Twitter and Facebook help "democratize" that information as well?
Is Social Media Helping or Hurting California Politics?
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And maybe she used to be a Democrat (though my experience is that the coverted are always the most rabid).
Hilary Rosen: Harriet and her Friend
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I'm not sure what Laurie from Manly Dorm might be referring to as hate mongering (although I see that talking about secession is divisive), but I'd like to point out it's not hateful to say the Bush administration is antidemocratic, plutocratic and militarily adventuristic.
American Coastopia!
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Gadafy's striking non-endorsement of the Democratic candidate focused in part on Obama's pledge of "unshakeable" support for Israel, which caused dismay, if not surprise, across the Arab and Muslim worlds last week.
Obama Taking Over Democratic National Committee Partly To Avoid Kerry's Fate
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Uzbekistan reaffirms its commitment to implement democratic reforms.
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All democratic associations or groups were outlawed.
Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
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If the Democrats manage to lose the seat in November, they might consider blaming an election system that is quite literally designed to stimy "majority rule" save in races where there are only two candidates.
Balkinization
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Democratic individuals, who in any case are likely to have similar beliefs and opinions because they are similarly situated, easily fall under the hegemonic sway of public opinion.
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Its political culture, once fiercely democratic, is being eroded by a manipulated, bureaucratic legalism that identifies dissent as disloyalty.
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In Iowa, he didn't just win over the Democrats, the college-educated over $55K under 60 crowd, he won overjust about everybody that wasn't a die-hard Republican.
Hillary's NH Lead In Suffolk Tracking Poll Cut By Nearly Half
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Just ahead, the Democratic ticket is official, and the game is underway.
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I also think that Edwards took certain positions in his 1998 Senate campaign which won't work well in national Democratic politics - particularly, if I remember correctly, supporting right-to-work laws.
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So, while not disavowing the memo should your Democratic staff on the select committee be taking that as a straightforward admonition?
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Democrats believe in all those things too but if you choose not to, we don't lable you un-American or un-qualified to be in any political party.
RNC resolution won't 'handcuff' Steele, co-sponsor says
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He noted that there is currently no democratic way of allowing the release of synbio technology, to which Dr. Gutmann retorted that there is no democratic way of banning it either.
Michael Rugnetta: The Presidential Commission and Synthetic Biology
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Liberal Democrat canvass returns looked great.
Times, Sunday Times
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By June of this year the whirligig of politics had kicked the Conservatives out and put the Liberal Democrats in.
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On a more encouraging note, the Democratic front-runner is out-earning her.
Think Progress » Bachmann Accuses The Media Of ‘Treason,’ Claims Use Of ‘Deem And Pass’ Warrants ‘Impeachment’
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And even though Democrat Bev Perdue is governor, she has little say in redistricting.
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And I don't believe it's right for the Democrats to kind of overreact to the last election.
President In Photo Op During Congressional Meeting
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India benefits from democratic politics, but suffers from overly bureaucratized government.
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All the polls had pointed to a clean sweep for the Democrats.
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A typical write-up of last August's vote in the New York Times, for example, focused on the way the president had "outmaneuvered" the Democrats.
Why Obama's Support For FISA Cave-In Is Such A Downer
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We need to turf the Democratic party out.
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In a truly participatory democratic society, an educated and skilled population is essential to its continuance.
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Yet doctrinaire democrats don't seem to give a tinker's toss about placing limits on what a legislature (local or global) can divvy or decide.
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The sad fact is that if the Democrats had tried to make a big issue of the matter the press would have criticized them unmercifully for spoiling the 100th birthday celebrations of a great man with their petty partisan politics.
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The hotel is owned by well-known Democratic activist Joe Cesare.
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We call for the immediate return to democratic institutions, to convoke an extraordinary session of the General Assembly (GA), to defend institutions in Honduras.
Laura Carlsen: Live Blog: OAS Session on Honduran Coup
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Thus was imposed on nationalist people an undemocratic arrangement destined never to yield a nationalist majority for perhaps hundreds of years.
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Grayson is one of the most progressive politicians the Democrats have and, thankfully, he does what is necessary to remain in office.
Christopher Sprinkle: Alan Grayson Is a Street Fighting Man
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The recorder, prosecutor and coroner are Republicans, while the auditor, treasurer and sheriff are Democrats.
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Stanley M.. Brand, a Democratic former House general counsel, said the penalty seemed personal rather than political.
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The only way to break such impasses is not through some kind of plausibly democratic process -- e.g.,
Balkinization
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Now you could dismiss this as "silly season" rumor-mongering, because Dougherty ran as a Democrat and Brewer is a Republican.
Francine Hardaway: Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Too Sick to Complete a Second Term?
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Sure, Loughner babbled about favorite right-wing pet causes and hallucinated that his "enemies" were Democrats, but if his enemies hadn't been Democrats, they would have been other kids at school, or mean bosses at work, or the IRS or any of the other targets that crazy people tend to obsess about.
Henry Blodget: Are Wackos With Guns Just a Fact Of Life in America?
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He said McCain has been critical of so-called 527 groups — named for the tax code section under which they operate — and argued that "virtually every attack-style 527 group on the airwaves" is aiding Democrat Barack Obama.
Price of Power: McCain accepts ex-Swift Boaters' donations
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Smith who was against the League and Jones who was against Article X, and Brown who was against Mr. Wilson and all his works, each for his own reason, all in the name of more or less the same symbolic phrase, register a vote _against_ the Democrats by voting for the
Public Opinion
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Congress and Sanate (not that you would thind so from the last two and a half years) and they have a say in what he is going to do on the other hand with a Democratic majority in the houses and a Democratic President I can see where we are haded NO WHERE!!!!!!!
Schneider: Voters say Clinton is more caring
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More alarming -- not to mention revolting -- than any revelation, which has come out thus far about Bachmann, Kennedy once commented to Democratic political adviser Bobby Baker, "You know, I get a migraine headache if I don't get a strange piece of ass every day" see endnote 54.
Lara M. Brown, Ph.D.: Michele Bachmann and Migraines: Presidential Disqualifier or Sexism?
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The Social Economy Network Cooperative Basel is a democratic network in which each member organization has one vote.
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Many of the pictures and symbols were helpful to the Democrats 'cause: a family that clearly was from the real America -- Wallace and Bobby, his parents; a wife, Elizabeth, who looks like the kind of unpretentious person who doesn't mind celebrating her anniversary at Wendy's; a demure daughter and two towheaded tots.
Digital Dispatches
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In the past, the Democrats combined their anti-communism with liberal reformist policies.
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It is thus not a mere truism that all democratic countries stand with Norway in its adversity and suffering.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fossilized distrust indicates failure at this key democratic task of holding majorities and minorities together.
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The bonus issue brought Democrats and Republicans together in a way unseen all year. Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Barney Frank suggested the executives should be fired.
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The Southern Democrats were factionalized into two groups: conservatives and liberals.
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Some cheered at the decision, but the president's decision is unpopular among some parties who priorly bid coalition with Yudhoyono's Democratic Party (Partai Demokrat - PD [id]).
Global Voices in English » Indonesia: Central Bank Chief, the next VP?
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The fact is that any Democrat's heroic war record functions mostly as superficial innoculation against charges of sissiness during campaigns, and it's the reason you see so many more Republican chickenhawks than anti-war Dems in public office these days.
Hullabaloo
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Is it more truly democratic to hold a referendum?
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Fred ♪ ♫ ♪ says: hey cappy, how much have democrats spent off the books?
Think Progress » ThinkFast: February 1, 2010
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There is a growing perception that the decision-making is remote, opaque, and even undemocratic.
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At the end of the draft, the platform spells out the traditional Democratic support for fighting discrimination and protecting civil rights.
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These comments provide a glimpse into the thinking of a layer of extremely wealthy Hollywood liberals or erstwhile liberals, whose commitment to democratic rights is increasingly tenuous.
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We need them as part the system, " said Senator Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat who serves on the foreign and environment and public works committees.
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Florida's Democratic candidate for governor, Alex Sink, said Monday she will begin airing a rare two-minute-long TV ad attacking Republican opponent Rick Scott for the massive fraud scandal that occurred on his watch at his former hospital company.
Alex Sink Attack Ad RIPS Rick Scott Over Massive Medicare Fraud (VIDEO)
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Appears Maliki is learning some very undemocratic behavior from our very own “overreacher.”
Think Progress » Hadley Ducks Question Over Whether Rumsfeld Suggestion Is ‘Cutting And Running’
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These are excellent results for the Christian Democratic Party.
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WASHINGTON (RNS) As Democrats conduct a grim postmortem on Tuesday's (Nov. 2) elections, some liberal leaders say one diagnosis is already clear: the party's outreach to religious voters was lifeless from the start.
Have Democrats Lost Faith In Faith-Based Outreach?
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Greg, Could you post a list of the Democrat-cowards who were frighted off by the Decider's "you are helping terrorists" crap and voted for that legislation so that they could join the Iraqi legislature on vacation?
Poll: Bush Approval Soars All The Way Up To 36%
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His success enfeebled the national democratic process, plunging Cambodia back into turmoil that continues to plague it today.
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The Democratic leadership in Congress, which was noticeably absent at the signing ceremony, fought the measure.
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Rachel Maddow mocked a Democratic senator on her Thursday show for what she called his "inexplicable" opposition to President Obama's jobs bill.
Rachel Maddow Mocks Sen. Bob Casey's Opposition To Obama Jobs Plan (VIDEO)
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Did the Conservatives win courtesy of the division of the opposition vote between Labour and the Liberal Democrats?
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Prosecutors and judges will have no difficulty in differentiating between cases, however inventive are those determined to break a democratically enacted law.
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There is skepticism about the impact and the unrestraint spending they're seeing out of this democratic Congress.
CNN Transcript Jul 10, 2009
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Willis also skips over the secular and leftist politics that led Catholic ethnics and working-class voters to take their distance from liberalism and the Democratic Party in 1972.
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I don’t know whether this is just a stumble, or the beginning of a real fall, for the bloody-handed, doughfaced Democratic leadership.
House of Representatives rejects war funding bill
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As in so much else, the French revolutionary regime was the precursor of the centralized, totalitarian, managerial, pseudo-democratic despotisms that now reign over the West.
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He inherited an uneasy alliance of liberals and social democrats and he knew that, intellectually, the former had to prevail.
Times, Sunday Times
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A still-larger dam, the Grand Inga Dam, has been proposed for completion between 2020 and 2025 in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the Congo River: Its output could reach 39 gigawatts of power.
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The Democratic political calculation with ObamaCare is the proverbial boiling frog: Gradually introduce a health-care entitlement by hiding the true costs, hook the middle class on new subsidies until they become unrepealable, but try to delay the adverse consequences and major new tax hikes so voters don't make the connection between their policy and the economic wreckage.
The ObamaCare Writedowns
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He did so by rubbishing the only viable goal of any Liberal Democrat election campaign - a hung parliament.
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Democratic leadership sources admitted that a major motivation for keeping the senators at the Capitol is to keep negotiations going and reach a compromise on a proposed public health care option.
Obama to the Capitol Hill Sunday
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It is also the outcome of the calculated political manipulation of the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Quiet folks ... the woman who should have been the 44th President of the United States is handling our starry-eyed mainstream media with the ease that comes with being a part of the most successful Democratic presidential legacy since FDR (see Bill Clinton).
Clinton: 'I broke my elbow, not my larynx'
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A democratic process of elections should ensure a fair level of representation.
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But most Democrats who are on the ballot in competitive races this year skittishly avoid such stark imagery.
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The Labour Party has moved to the right and become like your Democrat Party.
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June 22nd, 2009 3: 51 pm ET this gut is a liberal clown and acted like a republican and cheated on his wife but he is not responsible because he is a hypocrite democrat.
Villaraigosa to make announcement on Situation Room
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Why then mystify the clear and limpid line by making of the rituals cloistered and fetid mysteries when they are open to the sky, unregimented, free, and democratic?
An Autobiography
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Moreover, one can probably expect that ensuing fights will redound similarly, as the public appears to be internalizing the meme that the Democrats are fighting for the middle class while the Republicans are fighting for the rich.
Jared Bernstein: A Holiday Message
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Democrats ran candidates in every subcircuit seat, and won most of those they contested.
ILLINOIZE
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Jersey political shtick stand-up at the Democratic National Convention; the arena that bore his name has gone through several different corporate sponsors since, and is currently a severely brand-infected assaultively unrelenting advertising-delivery module - in which basketball is still played, sometimes - sponsored by Izod.
Can't Stop The Bleeding
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Indeed, I would argue that it has already happened to some degree, as student loans have democratized the college degree and worn off some of its cachet.
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That seemed to be the problem the democrats had when Palin used the term reload.
Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
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The reason they are similar in policy is because they are both democrats duh (who disagreed on only 2 or 3 legislative votes).
Blitzer: White House hopefuls worlds apart on the issues
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Institutions for change Rural development demands institutional pluralism and democratic participation.
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Today the burnt-out houses stand as a monument to the failed hope that democratic rule would rescue the delta.
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John Edwards today said that after watching his rivals slug it out last night, he's proud to represent what he's calling the grownup wing of the Democratic Party.
CNN Transcript Jan 22, 2008
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Democrats howled in anger when the full-year trade figures were released.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is a stanch supporter of the Democratic Party.
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Senator Jim Webb, the Virginia Democrat, former Navy Secretary and once and forever Marine, said unequivocally today that he was not interested in serving as Senator Barack Obama's running mate.
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He said a plan from three Democrats and three Republicans "could be a game-changer" that "might set the stage for some broad agreement.
'Gang of Six' hopes to spur bipartisan action on deficit
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Do you feel in any way, Governor, sandbagged by some other Democrats in the party?
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RUDIN: No, and that's one that the Democrats should have run away with, and that's the one with Richard Blumenthal, the state attorney general, against Linda McMahon, the former wrestling executive, who seems to have a hammerlock on him going into November 2nd.
Political Attack Ads Work, But Are They True?
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The Democrat convention has set the scene for a ferocious election campaign this autumn.
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Zuhra Bahman, a consultant from Kabul, said that urging Taliban fighters to give up arms and join the government will not amount to the democratization of Afghanistan.
Experts: Mideast Turmoil Underscores Need for Afghan Political Reform
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The Democrats realized the same thing, but rather than using this as leverage to get a long-term postponement to investigate the charges, the pressure really was just to have some kind of a hearing.
Hill’s Sexual Harassment Charges 1 Year Ago
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Kate Augusto, Danielle Capalbo and Nick Mendez report that Ayman Nour, a leading political dissident in Egypt, has decided to return to prison and finish his sentence in order to dramatize what he calls the Egyptian government's ongoing lack of respect for democratic values.
Archive 2009-05-01
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This is particularly so since he is now putting himself forward as a candidate for national office as the champion of the progressive wing of the Democratic party.
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Furthermore, women also favor Democratic congressional candidates over Republicans by a 15-point margin.
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There have been missteps, as there are with any presidential campaign, but a lot of top Democrats are now talking privately and some publicly about changes.
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But the mechanisms that insulated the centres of power from democratic control affected the Labour Party too, right from the start.
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A cheer went up from the Democratic side when the amendment was voted down.
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De Rossa said that his breakaway group would form a new democratic socialist party.
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It would be the sheerest hypocrisy for these same Democrats to give President Obama a pass on such criticism, merely on the grounds that he is of their party.
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Zombie Attack!
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They can be counted on to enthusiastically endorse any Democratic Party idea, regardless of how utterly void of common sense or careful forethought.
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Democrats are allied with the trial lawyers and some consumer groups.
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It now has to become a modern social democratic party which can win because of the popularity of its vision.
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Sands, a local attorney and former state representative, has been the target of Democratic Party mailers and phone calls castigating him for his work defending criminals in court.
Billingsgazette.com
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For some reason, all of this has scared the bejabbers out of the Democrats.
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It was a dramatic transformation, from society hostess to Democratic Party power broker.
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By this time we were well into an election year, with Ronald Reagan beginning to close in on the Republican nomination and Ted Kennedy launching a full-scale challenge for the Democratic nomination.
The Good Fight
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Having watched reasonably moderate candidates lose the last two presidential elections in heartbreaking fashion, and feeling further frustrated by the steady failure to win either house of Congress, Democrats have made it an article of faith that they lack the political and policy mechanisms to compete with their Republican counterparts.
Take Two: Hillary's Choice
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The lawsuit was filed in Pensacola after the Democratic president signed the bill the House passed Sunday night.
13 attorneys general sue over health care overhaul
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As New Labour has proven, these are not the types of politicians who are natural pluralists ready to reinforce democratic citizenship.
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We're living through a deeply contradictory time when black folks (and what's left of the unions) are the Dems only truly reliable voting block, and yet every other manifesto for Democratic revitalization is some kind of attenuated, okie-doke Souljah-moment retread.
Gary Dauphin: ATT(5)-1=CBC(3)+CHC(1)
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Of these the Norfolk Democrat and Suffolk Punch, both printed and carrying advertisements, were particularly impressive.
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Combine this with the effort by South Carolina Republicans to tar the state's Democratic gubernatorial nominee Vincent Sheheen with now-infamous accidental candidate Alvin Greene and I think you're seeing conservatives get revenge for a year of being painted as allies of "birtherism" and conspiracies about the president.
Embracing the crazy
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All three of the democratic frontrunners were only separated by a whisker's bredth.
Top Edwards Adviser Joe Trippi: Hillary And Obama Are "Banging Down The Doors" For Our Endorsement
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It's unlikely that the IHA seeks to return the Emperor to the position that he once held but it's equally unlikely that it favours a democratic, populist approach to the monarchy.
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In most liberal democratic countries there is some measure of agreement in the news media on political facts.
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We've been told that Republican Party polling has showed huge support for Republicans and a backlash against the Democrats.
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We want them to be steeped in the democratic process and capable of independent thinking on all kinds of issues great and small.
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I do not think it is healthy in any democratic parliament to have that sort of a majority.
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For instance, Matt argues thatThe Democratic Party is awash in secretiveness, and while there have been Kerry emails which explain a bit of polling, one is mostly kept in the dark as to the strategic direction of the campaign.
Sometimes the first thought...
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In the Republican zone, power remained in civilian hands and democratic forms were maintained until the end.
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The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday.
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I think its sad that the whole thing could have been a great opportunity to take the model of second life, and put a knife into the vampire capitalism that curses second-life, demonetize and thus democratize the platform.
Well That Was Quick
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Furthermore, women also favor Democratic congressional candidates over Republicans by a 15-point margin.
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The critical factor is whether organized labour will form a part of the first, future, democratic government.
Urbanization in Post-Apartheid South Africa
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Suppose such a party were to win, like the Progressive Democrats in 1987,11.8% of the first-preference votes.
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Government is a serious business, and his Liberal Democrats are in no way ready for it.
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Mr. Wyden has been campaigning for such a reform for years from the Democratic backbenches.
The Wyden-Ryan Breakthrough
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Congressional Democrats have resisted impeachment considerations, recalling the acrimonious division when a Republican Congress impeached Bill Clinton in 1998 for perjury and obstruction of justice to cover up his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
Bush's Disapproval Hits Rare Heights; Only Nixon and Truman Scored Worse
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Yes, I think it would have been great had Gilad given thanks to God with the traditional Gomel blessing in a synagogue close to his home in Mitzpe Hila, but he is a free man in a democratic nation and can be thankful anyway he chooses.
Rabbi Jason Miller: Gilad Shalit, Iran Hiker Josh Fattal And Freedom Of Religion
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The problem since then has been how to rekindle a spirit of democratic inquiry without provoking another conservative backlash.
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The Democrats treated that as a strictly intraparty issue. oboe Says:
Matthew Yglesias » Trent Lott Revisited
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Le Niger, pays qui a donné l'exemple d'une bonne léçon de la démocratie avec la réalisation de sa première alternance politique et démocratique, est happé par ces révisons constitutionnelles au nez et à la barbe de l'opinion internationale.
Global Voices in English » Niger: Widespread opposition to president’s bid to extend rule
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If so … I think that Democrats should be careful to frame this in the following way: a vote for cloture is a vote that recognizes the right of the American people to hear a frank debate about health care reform.
Think Progress » McConnell’s Faulty Logic: A Cloture Vote To Begin Senate Debate Actually Means A Vote To End It
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Harkin, antifilibuster quotes from Joe Biden and Barack Obama and the enthusiasm of his colleagues in the classes of 2006 and 2008 in the Democratic caucus.
NPR Topics: News
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WASHINGTON (CNN) – Speaker Nancy Pelosi blasted President Bush's comments Thursday suggesting that Democrats believe "we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals" and suggested Senator John McCain denounce them.
Pelosi blasts, McCain defends Bush comments
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The social democrats gambled on bourgeois democracy and the stability of capitalism.
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The potential victims of this autocracy were not only liberal democratic values, but also effective government.
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New Democrat Gore dismissed the idea.
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The bureaucrats and political executive at the state level, have a vested interest to centralise powers and authority and their hostility to evolve a genuine system of democratic decentralisation is well known.
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The social democratic model was under a lot of pressure in the 70s.
The Guardian World News
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If so, you do not recognize leadership and the execution of a brilliant tactic, that puts Democrats back in play with that'churchgoing 'partof the electorate.
Obama: Let's End "Divisive Politics And Tit-For-Tat"
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The Democratic party is just as corrupt as the Republican party, the only difference is that Democrats have the mainstream media that will downplay and coverup all their greed and corruptness.
McMahon says WWE antics not a liability to Senate run
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Not to mention that one reason the Tamil situation doesn’t arise much here is that the US has no dog whatever in that fight – no AIPAC pushing for US policy in that arena, no billionaires from the region paying Democrats and Republicans campaign money to push US support for the related countries, no scumbags like SLC arguing for “Hama Rules” on the Tamil Tigers.
Matthew Yglesias » Do Critics of Israeli Policy Whine Too Much?
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The small target, defensive quality of so much of the campaign has wearied me to the point of querying the worth of the democratic process.
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In a letter to the Super Committee, Congressman Howard Berman D-CA, Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee wrote, In this period of belt-tightening and economic uncertainty, some seem to think that foreign assistance is a luxury we can no longer afford.
Regan Hofmann: How President Obama Makes Love, Not War, by Pledging to End AIDS
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Although Democrats appear to be using the faltering economy to their advantage, Youngstown Republicans like McCain volunteer Tracey Winbush say they are making headway.
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All this may look democratic, but in 300 he opposed the admission of plebeians to the two main priestly colleges (pontifices and augures) and on two occasions attempted to secure the election of an all-patrician college.
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Liberal democrats remained in a minority on the Legco, despite their success in the direct elections.
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Faith in a black, Democratic president to be marginally better than a fascist fuckwit is not the same thing as faith in YHWH, Jesus Christ or Allah, but what they share makes for a good base line.
On Faith
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Nationally, the Liberal Democrats have consistently tried to present a nice wholesome face.
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If it fails, the Democrats will be seen as having broken their promises and/or having once again bungled an opportunity to fix the health care mess, and we could again be stuck with the Republicans for years.
Sebelius: There will be competition with private insurers
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The democratic rights to freely choose one's occupation and place of residency, as well as to immigration and asylum, are being ruthlessly sacrificed to the interests of big business.
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McDonnell campaign spokesman Tucker Martin brushed off the Democratic criticism.
Democrats thump Pawlenty for Virginia appearance
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By far the greatest amount of empirical research on democratic attitudes has been done in the United States.
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What are the ideas that a new Kerry administration would draw from the congressional Democratic caucus?
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I don't see any reason to "pussyfoot" (to quote a famous Democrat racist, George Wallace).
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
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Lieberman says he has his own reasons for refusing to give up the Senate bid: if he quit now, his successor would be picked by the state's Democratic committee, rather than by the voters, thereby subverting the democratic process.
Missouri Grieves For A Friend
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A champion of privatization, he's been holding closed-door meetings with moderate Democrats in the hopes of forging a compromise.
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Furthermore democratic socialism was feared and detested by doctrinaire Marxists because it offered planning in conjunction with freedom.
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Guidance for local councils refers to democratic accountability, social and economic equity.
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Liberal Democrat canvass returns looked great.
Times, Sunday Times
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HuffPost's Sam Stein writes, Unwilling or perhaps uneager to let go of last week's scuffle over Mitt Romney's controversial distortion of an old Barack Obama quote, the Democratic National Committee announced on Monday a major ad campaign attacking the former Massachusetts governor's character.
HUFFPOST FUNDRACE - Obama Takes A Page From Bush, GOP Targets Obama Through TV Ads, Palin Dead Enders Want Her To Reconsider
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That's not "deftness," it's crude corruption of the kind that Reid and the Democrats ran against in 2006 and 2008.
GayPatriot
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Palin in the spotlight is a gold mine for the democrats, cutting her term short to improve her financial position shows the world that we are hypocrytes.
Poll: Majority of Republicans don't think Palin's qualified for prez
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Only the Democratic Party is capable of running the country.
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We voted Democrat in the last election.
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The Post's Michael Laris writes about a small Republican enclave in heavily Democratic Montgomery County, where voters sometimes feel disconnected from the elected officials making the decisions.
Lori's A.M. Buzz: Who's calling, please?
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Two potential avenues for this enterprise have been suggested: the corporatist and the democratic ideal of the company.
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Some Democratic Unionists do precisely this by, for example, listing their active involvement with the Orders on their election literature.
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Moreover, such educational concepts are integrally related to political commitments to a radical and decentralised democratic social and political structure.
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And Allen West, a Republican running against Democratic Rep. Ron Klein in Florida's 22nd District, said Obama was "browbeating" Israel.
Obama, Netanyahu meet again
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Third, the world sees no near-term pretender to the throne because neither the divergent economies within the Euro zone nor the undemocratic Chinese regime command sufficient confidence in their respective currencies.
NYT > Opinion
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It was not until 1969 that the first transition between two popularly elected democratic governments occurred.
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A prevailing style of dress has become known as being ‘in fashion’, but fashion has been described as a tyrannically democratic force, enforcing conformity to current social or moral conventions.
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Six months ago they cautioned against being too aggressive on the corporate scandals; now they censure Democrats for not pushing harder.
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I'll recap my recap: Brown was a minor mayoral candidate who was a nonfactor in last September's Democratic primary, but he made some waves on the campaign trail by reliably bashing Adrian Fenty and lauding victor Vincent C.
DeMorning DeBonis: Feb. 25, 2011
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He was stripped of his official posts as he increasingly championed democratic reform.
Times, Sunday Times
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Later, Albright worked as a legislative assistant to the late Democratic Sen.
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In return for the donation, said Bunau-Varilla, Hanna had seen to it that the Republican platform called for the construction of an “isthmian” canal, rather than specifying one at Nicaragua, as the Democrats had done.
The Path Between the Seas
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Both the Republican and Democratic presidential nominees criticized the raid.
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It was a call to arms for democrats faced with a totalitarian threat.
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The Democrat candidate is the favorite to win election.
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I have faith in democratically elected officials as I know I can always vote again if dissatisfied.
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Colleagues call the former Democratic deputy whip gregarious and determined; he is a leading figure in the Latino world.
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No Sin Left Behind yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'No Sin Left Behind'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Public interrogations of piety and faith, such as undergone by the Democratic candidates earlier this week, amount to a sort of religious litmus test for public office.
No Sin Left Behind
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Now, Johnson, a 61-year-old Democrat who battled back from a December 2006 brain hemorrhage, is running for re-election in a GOP-dominated state where President Bush won 60% of the vote in 2000 and 2004. 50
S.D. Democrats pin hopes on popular senator
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The prostration of the Democratic Party has encouraged the Bush administration to accelerate its attacks on working people.
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Democratic participation, fair and free elections and effective governance need to be institutionalised and made routine, or non-violent means to resolve political crises could be replaced by remobilisation of militias, with significant risk of violent conflict.
Crisis Group
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Perhaps some kind of refresher course is in order, for the purpose of the Court is precisely to "check and balance" the power of "the sword" and "the purse" independent from "contrary interpretation of the democratically elected branches.
Balkinization
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Even when black Democratic politicians stumble and engage in borderline corrupt and self-serving feather their own nest antics, they are still regarded as better bets than Republican candidates to be more responsive to black needs.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Black Republicans Peddle Fantasy of Ousting Democrats in November
