Some members from silver-mining states in the west left the party.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

Merrin Guest left Marysville to attend a party in Melbourne with her husband before the flames struck on that terrible Saturday.

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

Among the participants was Sevastopol city councilman Yevgeniy Dubovik, a member of the pro-Russian and far left Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

a secular,left-leaning party whose members are mostly from the ethnic Chinese and Indian minorities;

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

Members of a far-left minority party surrounded trade committee Chairman Park Jin's podium and tried to physically block a vote to advance the trade deal to a full ratification vote.

VOA: standard.2009.04.22

In Arkansas, centrist Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln failed to win a majority of votes in the primary against a left-leaning challenger, and is headed to a June run-off for her party's nomination.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

And there will be grumbling on the left if you want to get something done, but they ultimately need almost all of their party because they are going to get almost no Republicans to come along with them.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

Less than two years later, Crist has left the Republican Party to run as an independent candidate in the race for a U.S.Senate seat in Florida, after realizing it was going to be impossible for him to win the Republican primary.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04