Smaller Democratic majorities could force the president to reach out to the opposition and to conservatives in his own party.

VOA: special.2010.01.23

Fortier says that might force Democratic congressional leaders to pull back a bit on their reform plans when they come back to work next month.

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But it also happens because we no longer have the energy and resources to understand what sentiment means as a democratic force.

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He wanted the Sandinistas to become a modern social-democratic force.

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Mr Brown vigorously rejects one criticism that, these days, is sometimes aimed at New Labour, the pro-market social-democratic force of which, along with Tony Blair, his predecessor as prime minister, and Lord Mandelson, now the business secretary, he was a progenitor: that it was a fair-weather creed.

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