"I think the president has a very important responsibility here, and it's Democrats fighting Democrats, " Republican consultant and CNN contributor Ed Rollins said Monday.
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He called on conservatives to stop fighting with Democrats on their terms about the size of government in Washington and focus instead on connecting with voters across the nation.
In that respect, most polling suggests that Democrats fighting the erosion of union rights have an advantage over the Republicans advocating it.
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Less often noted is the fact that it represented a defeat for ideological liberalism, too, with the Democrats fighting on their most moderate platform for decades.
That group includes Grassley's fellow Iowan Rep. Bruce Braley, who is part of a group of House Democrats fighting for a fix in disparities in how Medicare reimburses rural and urban health care providers.
Now, with a little more than six weeks to go before the election, Democrats fighting to keep control of the U.S. Senate find themselves scrambling in a state where President Barack Obama is expected to trounce former Gov. Mitt Romney, and where Democrats hold every U.S. House seat, every statewide office, and an overwhelming majority in the state legislature.
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While the president is sending Petraeus to brief lawmakers on the progress of the surge in Iraq, Democrats are fighting back with quotes from their own list of retired generals who support the Democrats' bill to withdraw forces from the country.
Across New York, there are six House seats in which Democrats are fighting furiously to hold onto the gains they've made over the past two elections.
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Liberal Democrats are fighting to protect Social Security.
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If Democrats are serious about fighting inequality, their top priority ought to be tax reform.
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And I don't know why people would say, boy, we really want to make sure that those Democrats are in Washington fighting for us.
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People out there watching us, they see us nothing more than Democrats and Republicans up here fighting, fighting only to win a few political points, not to get the problem solved.
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Democrats, meanwhile, are fighting back against the Republicans' criticism.
Fighting their first election, the Liberal Democrats did much to give themselves a politically vital unique selling point apart from the issue of proportional representation - a marginal concern to most voters.
This in-fighting is reinforced by the fact that Democrats do not yet know whether a more appealing compromise that meets the test of revenue neutrality laid out by Mr Obama may yet emerge from the other chamber of Congress.
Now, the Democrats are in charge, Republicans are fighting everything.
While Democrats are pushing for tax cuts, fighting crime and cutting the welfare roles, Republican governors facing re-election are seeking to broaden health care coverage, hire more teachers and work to protect the environment.
With the clock ticking away on the deadline for the one year payroll tax cut ( this one, as it turns out, is a real deadline), Democrats and Republicans in the Senate are fighting to see who can outmaneuver each other.
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If the Republicans keep fighting among themselves, it could create an opportunity for Democrats to make a pitch for moderates.
For many Democrats, the link between free trade and fighting terrorism went down especially badly: it implied, they thought, that anyone sceptical of free trade was unpatriotic.
Forty years ago, in 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party stood at the Democratic convention in Atlantic City fighting to preserve voting rights for all America and all Democrats, regardless of race or gender.
Some Democrats think all this has happened because they are fighting back.
Many business leaders complain that the government, which yokes together the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) with the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP), is plagued by in-fighting.
"Liberal Democrats have proud 20-year record of action in Eastleigh, fighting for people in both local government and in Westminster, " he said.
But, Romney said, much as his supporters would like him to keep fighting for the nomination, staying in the race now would only help the Democrats.
The Liberal Democrats, whose manifesto includes a pledge to scrap tuition fees, are fighting hard to capture the seat of Cardiff Central from Labour which contains most of the student accommodation in the city.
Blue Dog Democrats are blanching at the cost of the president's initiatives, fighting against the specter of higher energy taxes in the cap and trade debate, and coming out strongly against health care reform that includes a big role for government.
The only hitch in the Democrats' plan is that they are up against Republicans who are cunning at fighting this sort of battle.
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Admittedly, Obama got himself into this predicament by seizing what had been the Democrats' mantra since the Sept. 11 attacks: that President Bush was fighting the "wrong war" in Iraq, as opposed to the "right war" in Afghanistan.
On a daily basis, important Democrats are speaking out against additional troops or funding for this war we've been fighting at different levels since 2001.
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