From the Democratic base, progressives consider Obamacare a triumph of historic proportions, and it reportedly is popular among the Democratic-leaning ethnic base.
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But she has recently become the most popular speaker at Democratic fund-raising events.
The problem is that, although they have memorable popular battle cries, the pro-democratic parties are underfunded and badly organised.
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Several polls now suggest that the most popular option among voters after the centre-left Democratic Party is the Five Star Movement, led by a comedian and blogger, Beppe Grillo.
He didn't care whether a bill was popular or politically expedient, Democratic or Republican -- he cared about whether it helped people, whether it made a difference in their daily lives.
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The Democratic Party, led by Martin Lee Chu-ming and easily the biggest democratic group, hopes for 40-50% of the popular vote and nine seats.
They oppose 80, 000 Vietnamese troops occupying Cambodia and 100, 000 troops and militia of the Vietnamese-backed PRK. Until the non-communist resistance can protect its base of popular support the democratic resistance cannot survive except through some form of association with the Khmer Rouge.
Religions, like constitutions, are by their nature anti-democratic on the basic principle that what is right is not always popular.
Dante Delgado, a popular former governor running for a centre-left coalition based on the Party of the Democratic Revolution, Mexico's third main party, polled a respectable 28.3%.
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The centre-right Social Democrats, the main opposition party, and the smaller right-wing Popular Party, have announced that they will get together, as the Democratic Alternative, to fight the election.
Our governor, Janet Napolitano, who's a very popular Democrat, a two-term Democrat, she's considered a kind of Democratic frontrunner for the seat, and I think there's even a poll that shows that that would be a pretty tough reelection battle for McCain.
If this is indeed his intent and the talks between Fatah and the Popular and Democratic Fronts suggest that it may be Mr Arafat's re-entry to the Lebanese theatre is likely to be welcomed by the Palestinians.
Joe Manchin, then the popular Democratic governor of West Virginia, disavowed Mr Obama's ideas about health-care reform and global warming going so far as to run a commercial in which he fired a bullet through the cap-and-trade bill supported by Democrats in Congress to secure a seat in the Senate last year.
Democratic ideals and concepts of popular participation are closely linked with principles of competition and the free-market economy.
"Running away from a popular test only means that some want to assume executive authority without a democratic mandate, " Issam al-Arian said.
Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry has opposed some of the most effective -- and publicly popular -- military weapons in the U.S. arsenal during the past 15 years.
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While Kansas is traditionally considered a red state, Democrats are buoyed by President-elect Barack Obama's strong performance there and the prospect that the state's popular Democratic governor, Kathleen Sebelius, may enter the race.
He is also seen as the party's only chance, in a genuinely free and fair election, of defeating Morgan Tsvangirai, his popular prime minister and leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), which has been Zanu-PF's partner for the past three years in a power-sharing government.
Belaid, whose party was the secular-leftist Democratic Patriots, also was the voice of a coalition of secular opposition parties known as the Popular Front.
He was favored to win the Democratic nomination and maintains strong nationwide support -- particularly from some who point out he won the popular vote in 2000.
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