Here is a theme for liberals, in the widest sense, in the years ahead.
Strike down Obamacare, and single payer instantly becomes the number one organizing cause for liberals in America.
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As it stands, none of this is difficult for liberals to accept, or even new to them.
However, the results for 1998 are less encouraging for liberals than the results of our questions on trade.
In certain respects, the burden, as Stewart points out, is greater for liberals, given the centrality of government to their agenda.
For liberals, it means that, without big unpopular tax increases, government is deeply constrained in its ability to address new challenges.
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Alas, he lacks the kind of skills at compromise, moderation and restraint that once defined conservatism and now seems entirely reserved for liberals.
But Ms. Thernstrom thinks that even if Section 5 can survive a new round of judicial scrutiny and the oversight continues, there are demographic reasons for liberals to be worried.
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Young Americans vote for liberals, while seniors go conservative.
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The list above should be sobering for liberals.
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He has the added advantage of being both a known conservative commodity but something of a stealth candidate, since he's been on the DC court for less than two years, so there isn't much of a record for liberals to attack.
It cannot be denied that there are problems, for liberals and supporters of full female emancipation, with the application of Sharia, the body of laws deemed to derive from the Koran, in those countries where the judicial system is wholly or partly based on it.
Mr Blair has, in effect, imposed on Labour the Grimond master-plan for the Liberals.
The real problem for American liberals is that they don't realize how insular they've become.
That is a problem for Russian liberals, who, unlike the Communists, lack organisation or unifying leaders.
For economic liberals, that flexibility and dynamism offers Europe's best chance of survival.
As for the Liberals, their interim leader, Bob Rae, is a former NDP premier of Ontario and is sympathetic to a coalition.
Far from being an asset, the McGuinty name has turned into a millstone for the Liberals, and not just in Ottawa South.
Little has gone right for the liberals since they joined Angela Merkel's coalition in 2009, after winning a record 15% of the vote.
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The only way to avert another one under the same rule, he says, is for the Liberals to win the coming provincial election.
The biggest problem for the Liberals, a centrist, big-tent party, is that Canadian politics has become less European and consensual and more American and ideological.
Mr Manos is trying to build a power base for the Liberals in Greece's provinces and islands, where people are most dissatisfied with the Socialists' gradual approach to modernisation.
His climbdown was a victory for church liberals, who have been waging what at times has seemed a losing battle with Catholics who refuse to make their peace with the modern democratic state Poland is trying to become.
Mr Abolfotoh has also profited from the decision in January by Mohamed ElBaradei, the former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency and an important figurehead for Egyptian liberals, to drop out of the race in protest at the army's handling of the transition.
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Just as conservative women reacted angrily to liberal feminists who question whether Palin could raise her children and run for vice president, liberals like the National Organization for Women's Kim Gandy are now tweaking Republicans for their newfound sensitivity.
Bit by bit, Mr Westerwelle is preparing his liberals for a probable spell in opposition.
NDP's support in the polls to sink to 15%, against 47% for the opposition Liberals.
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