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But favorable economic indicators have made little difference to the standing of Cameron’s Conservatives in opinion polls, and have done nothing to save their coalition partner, the centrist Liberal Democrats, from a severe slump.
Whether or not they make Miliband the next prime minister (in a coalition with the Liberal Democrats, the SNP, or both), they are likely to characterize elections elsewhere as well in the years ahead.
Suppose that US diplomats had discovered that democrats living under a brutal military dictatorship were negotiating with junior officers to stage a coup to restore democracy and the rule of law.
China’s increasing assertiveness in staking its claims contributed to the landslide victory of the defense-minded Liberal Democrats in Japan, and to the conservative Park Geun-hye’s election as South Korea’s first-ever female president.
Of course, our Orange forces are not perfect, and Viktor Yanukovych – who again opposes Ukraine’s democrats – is not Stalin reincarnated.
Owing to a major shift in public sentiment in the past few months, many Democrats are now convinced that they will win seats, and potentially reclaim control of the House of Representatives.
In the early days of Trump’s presidency, it looked as though he could receive some support from congressional Democrats who were worried about 2018.
The difference, of course, is that, rather than competing to make money, these organizations are encouraging civic engagement, and trying to get more people to vote for Democrats as a rebuke to Trump.
In other words, conservative vote for Republicans and those on the left vote for Democrats on the basis of differences in the party programs, those in the middle go from one side to the other on the basis of the state of the economy and perceptions about the “competence” of the incumbent administration.
And there is bipartisan opposition to a value-added tax, with Democrats fearing its regressive consequences and Republicans dreading its revenue-generating effectiveness.
Indeed, African summits, which in the past saw democrats and dictators from different language, religious and cultural environments sharing the same table, usually produced little serious development policies because they indulged in pie-in-the-sky rhetoric.
But the Republicans’ internal rifts have made it clear to Democrats that, if they stay united, they can put a serious crimp in the Trump agenda and claw back House seats in November 2018.
As of March 1, there were 237 Republicans and 193 Democrats in the House (along with five vacancies).
The group Swing Left has a helpful website that enables people to find the nearest congressional swing district – the point being to identify where Democrats should focus their attention and donations.
Democrats will be more supportive of more far-reaching US commitments, although, again, differences of view will emerge on both sides.
The budget deal that Bush reached with congressional Democrats in 1990 may indeed have contributed to his failure to win re-election in 1992.
Democrats must commit to expanding the share of Americans with health insurance, not reducing it, as Republicans have been working toward.
Democrats should work especially to ensure a pre-school education for all, so that children can enter kindergarten on a more equal footing.
Democrats could raise government revenue further by implementing a carbon tax – an approach that would also have environmental benefits.
That is why modern social democrats and progressive liberals are eager to right social wrongs.
As a result, center-left parties across Europe have begun to change course, with social democrats in several key countries changing long-held positions on migration.
Denmark’s social democrats are a step ahead of their Austrian counterparts: in preparation for next year’s elections, they have adopted a new position paper on immigration titled “Just and Realistic.”
This stance is largely mirrored by Sweden’s social democrats, as they attempt to cope with strong public support for the far-right, anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats.
On one level, social democrats’ immigration shift is a necessary response to voter demand.
If the vote comes off successfully, democrats and democratic norms will receive a boost in every corner of the continent.
Only 18 % of Democrats supported sending 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan, while 57% of Republicans supported a troop buildup.
The most the PiS, for its part, can hope for is that some coalition of countries (for example, those ruled by Social Democrats) will propose another alternative to Tusk, whom EU member states will elect in order to avoid escalating the conflict with Poland.
However, a small but increasing number of conservative thinkers - while not democrats - advocate a more pragmatic and conciliatory approach, essentially adopting the language that once worked so well for the now-beleaguered reformists.
But tycoons are not natural democrats.
His parents were Democrats.
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