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democratic party platform 2008
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Pittsburgh on Saturday will host the Democratic Party's 186- member platform committee as the group puts final touches on the party's 2008 platform and adopts it in advance of the Democratic National Convention late this month. Delegates to the national convention will vote on the platform during the Aug. 25-28 convention in Denver.
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Jeff Berman, a former campaign aide to President Barack Obama, joined Bryan Cave's new public policy and governmental affairs practice in the firm's Washington, D.C., office. Berman was the national delegate director for the Obama campaign and came up with the strategy of focusing on caucus states, unpledged delegates and states that allocate delegates proportionally. At the Democratic National Convention, Berman oversaw the development of the 2008 party platform, the creation of a commission to revise national Democratic Party rules and the resolution of all credentials controversies, including those involving the Florida and Michigan primaries.
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Pittsburgh will host the Democratic Party's 186-member platform committee on Saturday as the group puts final touches on the party's 2008 platform and adopts it in advance of the Democratic National Convention late this month. Delegates to the national convention will vote on the platform during the Aug. 25 to 28 convention in Denver.
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The new platform supports Family and Medical Leave Act expansion, paid sick days, international family planning, disability rights, affirmative action, hate crimes legislation, ending violence against women, and promoting women's rights around the world. The Democratic Party also strongly supports access to comprehensive affordable family planning services and age-appropriate sex education which empower people to make informed choices and live healthy lives.
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- Legislative success and political failure: the public's reaction to Barack Obama's early presidency.
...With the help of Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, Obama pushed t...His reward was to see his Democratic Party suffer a crushing defeat in the 2010 midterm elect.... Background: The 2008 Election . Public opinion toward Obama during his ...'s Senate seat in Massachusetts on a platform opposing Obama's health care plan, inspired united...
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On Jan. 14, Taiwanese voters will elect the country's next president and parliament. Officials in both Beijing and Washington are closely watching the election campaign, for the outcome could affect both Taiwan-China and U.S.-China relations. President Ma Ying- jeou, the incumbent from a mainland emigre family and Beijing's preferred candidate, came to power in a landslide victory in 2008 on a platform of rapprochement with China and reviving Taiwan's struggling economy. However, most Taiwanese opinion polls show him running behind Tsai Ing-wen, a native of Taiwan and candidate of the island's major opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which leans toward a more independent Taiwan and rejects unification with China. Tension in the Taiwan Strait has subsided - despite Beijing's ...
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A quiet revolution is stirring in the country, and Taos County is an important reflection of this grassroots resurgence that is bringing together old-line Democrats and new Progressives. In just a few short weeks, what looked like a familiar, but bumpy road of political in-fighting in Taos turned into a free-flowing highway. This new brand of Democrat may spell trouble for candidates who still rely on old-style party politics that may be obsolete. Former Taos County Central Committee Chairman Billy Knight's success in bringing 65 percent of the county's registered Democrats to polls in the November 2005 election re-ignited the interest of old-line, "padrone" Democrats and energized the new Progressives who are more focused on national issues, such as the war in Iraq and health care. Whe...
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... starters, consider that neither the Democratic nor Republican Party Platforms of 2008 even mentio...
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... casts further doubt on Tulis's (1987, 2007, 2008) treatment of McKinley. It also introduces a new, ... be considered untoward, but at the time, party surrogates- -not presidents--engaged in campaign b... to estimate--thronged about the platform from which the President made his address. Hardly ...For instance, The Free Press, a Democratic paper in Detroit, noted that "[f]or an 'off year' ...
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S. Rep. Brad Ellsworth, D-Ind., has drawn a line in the sand: He will not vote for any health care reform bill that does not explicitly forbid federal funding of elective abortions. Ellsworth's declaration goes further than his Sept. 16 letter to House leaders on abortion funding in health care reform legislation.
...-abortion organizations and the Republican Party is an inescapable fact. Although anti-abortion act... the rule, but he is one element of a Democratic majority that keeps the Democrats in power, and th... noted that the national Democratic Party's 2008 platform makes a strong endorsement of abortion ri...
