And, administration sources tell CNN there are tentative plans for an announcement later this week on Capitol Hill featuring a handful or more of Democratic lawmakers who are still publicly undecided on the controversial issue.
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The one critical common element across all of them: In a country where most states have become more Republican or Democratic, they have stubbornly clung to a more even split among the major parties.
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But with both remaining bits of Yugoslavia now more or less democratic, it will be much harder to negotiate new terms for their coexistence in a single state.
Nor will it make the EU more democratic or bring it any closer to ordinary citizens: indeed, voters in three countries said no to its provisions, only for their wishes to be steamrollered.
Three surveys have put his lead at 30 points or more ahead of his presumptive Democratic challenger, state Sen.
"We're a little more democratic than Sony or Philips, which are elitist, " says Kim.
One of the country's few truly unpredictable swing states, Pennsylvania is more or less evenly split between its Democratic cities and staunchly Republican center.
We throw up our hands and ask whether political action committees have more influence on elections than democratic ideals or the interests of most Americans.
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So Giuliani or some of the Democratic primary candidates are a lot more covered in the media, and so people will go to Google and type in Ron Paul because they just want to know who is he?
The study also found that Democratic supporters were much more likely to contribute online or through email. 57 percent of Democrats donated in this way versus 34 percent of Republican supporters.
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In the blue states the opposite is starting to be true: The richer and more educated one is, the likelier one is to vote Democratic or Independent.
So why not continue to raise objections to Democratic proposals and try to deny them more legislative victories, or at least sully any they get, as they did on health care reform?
Myron Lieberman, a former union campaigner who has been increasingly disillusioned with his old friends, estimates that they probably employ more full-time (or the equivalent) political operatives than the Republican and Democratic Parties combined.
The rules are not the same for the Democratic or Republican candidate - the rules for signature gathering are 10 or 20 times more stringent than they are for the major parties.
If he, or Hillary Clinton, the Democratic front-runner, get the job, America may well once more take a lead in the global effort to mitigate climate change.
Obama and Democratic leaders seek a solution that could win support from a Republican or two, and more importantly, help bridge a divide among Democrats on the public option issue.
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So an incoming Republican president would be constrained by powerful Democratic majorities on Capitol Hill, and an incoming Democratic president would be under strong pressure from his or her core supporters to put much more emphasis on negotiation than on force.
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