All this comes at a time when the Progress Party, until recently the most right-wing party in parliament, has just readmitted Mogens Glistrup, the vociferous and extreme opponent of immigration who helped found the party.
Mitch McConnell, the GOP's leader in the U.S. Senate, was campaigning for the opponent of tea-party candidate Rand Paul in the senate contest in his home state, aided by party stalwart Dick Cheney.
If, as expected, a third opponent of the bill, the Bahujan Samaj Party, the pro-dalit ruler of northern Uttar Pradesh state, also forsakes the government, it would be reduced to a majority of two in the Lok Sabha.
While Obama occupies the middle, his GOP opponent must closely follow the Tea Party line (as well as that of social conservatives) and risk being marginalized to the extreme.
Others in this powerful clan include Hamid al-Ahmar, a leader of the Islamist party Islah and a prominent businessman who has long been an opponent of the president.
Yet Blackwell has had to try to escape the stigma of his party, as his opponent unfairly but effectively ties him to the discredited Governor Taft.
David Bonior, the bill's leading Democratic opponent, says that two-thirds of his party will oppose it, 40 more than opposed the annual renewal of the China trade bill last year.
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Gauck is an independent political thinker from the former east who was a strong opponent of the communist government, and who was nominated by the left-leaning SPD party in 2010 to run for president of Germany.
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Nonetheless, he is one of the party's greatest advocates of a strong separate identity and is an opponent of links with Labour.
Furthermore, like many successful strongmen, he has the common touch, which allows him to connect with ordinary Cambodians in a way that his principal opponent, Sam Rainsy of the eponymous Sam Rainsy Party, has struggled to equal.
The most vocal opponent of the security deal in Iraq has been radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's party, which opposes any U.S. military presence in Iraq.
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After his opponent's victory, Mr Fillon warned of a deepening split in the party which he described as a "political and moral fracture".
Further, it would reward a party for win-at-all-costs tactics, to the deprivation of his opponent.
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