In years past, Republicans and Republican leaners were more likely than either Democrats or moderates and liberals in GOP coalition to say that there were clear solutions to most of the big issues facing the country. ..…
The emerging political leaders of even the Democratic Party now barely nodded in the direction of labor, and Republicans quietly concluded that the time had come to wipe out one erstwhile union bastion after another. . ..…
Lincoln’s court strategy was to appoint Republicans who would endorse presidential powers in a war to save the Union. . ..…
As Douglass spoke, expectations of a short conflict had ended and the debate was shifting from preserving the Union to ending slavery. Led by so-called “Radical Republicans,” Congress had voted to free the slaves in Washington, D.C., and ban Union officers from returning escaped..…
While only 12% of Core Conservatives say that Republican Party is too willing to cut government programs even the share saying this rises among other groups in GOP coalition 36% of Country First Conservatives say this, along with 46% of New Era Enterprisers and 49% of Market Skeptic..…
While the two other, less traditionally conservative groups in GOP-oriented coalition Market Skeptic Republicans and New Era Enterprisers are also mostly Republican their orientation, only about in each of these groups consider themselves Republicans.. ..…
Having known and seen family members bear the humiliations of racism, it is hard to accept the alliance Republicans made in 2016 with Donald Trump and to watch the way that compromise has poisoned the discourse on immigration policy. ..…
Fight this before Republicans ruin something else for the sake of political power. ( via Secular Coalition for America. ..…
Alabama is two-thirds white and 27 percent Black, and six of its seven House members are white Republicans, and its senators are white Republican men. Under a party list system, for example, Black Democratic voters, coalition with Latinos, Asians and progressive whites, could increase..…
The slave power did indeed understand 'that the day of their power is over when a Republican president is elected.' . ... Still, Lincoln and the Republicans were a part of the struggle that ended slavery. ..…
Black community activists regard this as a move to place control of the airports in the hands of the governor and white supremacist Republicans. . A documentary from the Coalition for Economic Justice — “The Assault on Black Political Power in Jackson, MS” — argues that the planned..…
Religious “nones” also are growing within the Republican coalition, but they are doing so at a slower rate; 14% of Republicans and Republican-leaning adults now say they have no religious affiliation, up modestly from 10% in 2007. ..…
Democrats are sharpening their attacks on such issues as the war in Iraq and spending cuts, hoping to gain traction on issues that might help them defeat Republicans in next year's elections. . Bush and his team 'have the power of the bully pulpit, but when you have a losing hand, it's..…
Its grass-roots organizing and fund-raising were instrumental in helping Republicans, many of them religious conservatives, sweep Congress in 1994. . But in the past year, nearly all of the coalition's top officials have either resigned or been fired, and the organization is deeply in debt...…
Some of Bush's strongest supporters said they fear the deal had solidified the power of a coalition of independent-minded senators, which could try to make its influence felt on other parts of Bush's agenda. . 'The Republicans who lent their names to this travesty have undercut their..…
With western territories entering the Union as free states, Republican control of Congress (as well as the presidency, and eventually the Supreme Court) would be assured. ..…
Moreover, Local 1422's leading role in the fight to remove the Confederate flag from government buildings was bound to lead to a clash between the union and right-wing Republican politicians who routinely defend that symbol of white supremacy, . ..…
Strategically, the Gore team stressed the safe harbor deadline’s importance: they did not want the US House of Representatives, controlled by Republicans, to be entitled to disavow a Florida-based recount favorable to Gore. ..…
The erratic and seldom boring Newt Gingrich, never candidate for the presidency, came Iowa and fifth New Hampshire in 2012, and with the help of Las Vegas based casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, he swept South Carolina primary and seemed to believe that he could win the nomination.. ..…
In the dark of night Republican tries to revive the anti-union right to work amendment. ... While Republicans have been in their support for the anti-union amendment, it appears they are shying away from taking vote on it since they fear what it could mean for them in..…
Republicans do not talk to Democrats, Democrats do not talk to Republicans. On their way back to Washington, he asked Gates to assemble their team to create program to help single mothers-like the ones they visited Minneapolis. ..…
Republicans praised it, Democrats denounced it, some officers and soldiers in the Union army welcomed it, others including General George B. ... In December 1862 the disastrous Union defeat at Fredericksburg, in Virginia, was followed by a Cabinet crisis in which..…
coalition of 60 groups are ramping up campaign to oppose amendment to ban same-sex marriage, Republicans put on the 2012 ballot... ..…
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The legislation deals severe blow to organized in state that has the in the country, and it marks the revival of long promoted by American Legislative Exchange Council, Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that has seen its share of controversy recently.. ..…