Democratâs Illness Highlights Partyâs Thin Majority
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Senator Tim Johnson was reportedly in critical condition after being hospitalized âwith the symptoms of a stroke.â
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His inclusive approach is the way to go. But his party's failure to follow his lead is offering the Democrats an enormous political opportunity.
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Voters this fall could take small steps toward increased diversity in the Senate.
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No consensus exists among Democrats about why John Kerry was defeated, and the party is locked in a battle of interpretation over just what went wrong.
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Unless Kerry surges, Democrats may see hope of controlling House or Senate slip away.
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As Washington is riveted by the potential political fallout from Sen. Tim Johnson's brain surgery, some people in South Dakota remember when one of its Senate seats sat empty for three years.
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Bill Clinton, considered to be the  Democrats' biggest campaign draw, will be sidelined by illness  from much of the presidential race -- spelling either boost or  bust for John Kerry, depending who's talking in the spin-driven  world of U.S. partisan politics.
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In the shadow of Bill Clinton and his gleaming new presidential library, leaders of the struggling Democratic Party held informal discussions this week of how to come back from their devastating Election Day losses.
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In their new role as the House majority, the Democrats so far this year have shown overwhelming unity on legislative votes. There are some exceptions, though Ã¢ÂÂ and they mostly come from members of the big and decisive House Class of 2006 who prevailed last year in politically competitive districts and could face difficult re-election contests in 2008.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. -- It may seem like a distant memory now, but Democrats not so long ago dominated the battle between the parties to get their voters to the polls.
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They call themselves Main Street Republicans, moderates consigned to the back alleys of politics by their own party. But despite a severe bruising in the fall election, this minority within a minority finds itself with new avenues to explore, including working more closely with Democrats.
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Democrats are facing the same obstacle that stymied Republicans when they had control: paralyzingly thin margins in the Senate.
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If Tuesday&#39;s election returns were a bitter pill for Democrats nationally, they were pure poison for Democrats in the South. Five formerly Democratic US Senate seats were up for grabs.
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Senator Maria CantwellÂs campaign appears to be benefiting from a cold dose of pragmatism among antiwar Democrats.
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Republicans are three steps from a November shellacking &amp;#151; each a grim possibility if habitually divided Democrats get their acts together.
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As Democrats and Republicans prepare to spar for any advantage in the narrowly divided Senate starting next month, Joseph I. Lieberman, whoÃ¢ÂÂs describing himself these days as an independent Democrat, has made it plain that he does not feel all that indebted or beholden to either major political party.
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It's a painful irony for Democrats: In the space of a year, the Iraq war that was the source of party's resurgence in Congress became the measure of its impotence.