Sarah Chamberlain, the partnership's director, complained that GOP leaders had rejected popular causes such as the minimum wage, embryonic stem cell research, and lobbying reforms while ignoring health care issues that did not involve Terri Schiavo. The result, she said, was that moderate voters in the suburbs saw Republicans as extremists.
GOP pointing fingers -- at itself
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That capital slowly drained away with an ill-fated fight on Social Security, a furor over the government's mishandling of Hurricane Katrina, an aggressive intervention for conservative causes like the right-to-die case of Terri Schiavo, and, more than anything, pollsters said, the war in Iraq.
President facing a new reality... He has to talk to liberals now, too
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