The president saw his biggest decline among Republicans, down 19 points among members of the opposite party.
Some of the amendments were designed to put a political squeeze on members of the opposite party.
They were ones who cultivated a good working relationship with members of Congress of the opposite party.
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This time, it was the GOP that was reaping the benefits of having an unpopular incumbent of the opposite party in the White House.
And because most politicians draw their own districts to shield against a viable challenge from the opposite party, they are far more susceptible to electoral defeat in the summer than they are in the fall.
In states and districts that slightly favor one party and have been traditionally represented by moderates from the opposite party, the very lawmakers viewed as "problem solvers" are tossed out in favor of those who promise change, Ornstein said.
There are, by my count, six members of the House of Representatives on the Republican side and one on the Democratic side, who were defeated in the November election, either for reelection or for another office, who were replaced by someone of the opposite party.
If circumstances dictated it for example, if he was negotiating with a president or Senate leadership from the opposite party the Speaker might allow legislation to come to the floor that had weak support within his own party, relying on a mix of Democratic and Republican votes to pass it.
Police officers that are available on the streets for just 11% of the time, 900, 000 violent crimes a year, 26, 000 victims of crime every single day - that's the legacy of the party opposite.
Try this over dinner with relatives from the opposite political party.
Indeed, Laurent Fabius, one of the rare Socialist elephants not (yet) co-opted by Mr Sarkozy, has argued the opposite: that the party should return to its Socialist roots.
Most people view the Occupy Wall Street movement as the ideological opposite of the Tea Party, yet they share a remarkably similar motivating principle: a concern that our economic system has become fundamentally unfair.
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The crowds were asked to wait for quite a while and we were watching the fire engines putting out the fire at the party shop opposite Debenhams.
Aria: The smallest room I know of in a big, luxury property, this is the opposite of the loud brash party palace, and intimacy is the selling point.
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Lord Henley did not accept that characterisation, saying it was "a bit rich" for Labour to accuse the government of poor standards on border security as some of the failures acknowledged in Mrs May's statement "were failures of the party opposite when in government".
This blatant effort to weaken the Democratic party will have precisely the opposite effect.
These views are the exact opposite of the leadership, of a party that is arguably even more euro-sceptic than it was when it was last in power.
In Wales, it looks as if every single Tory MP - all eight of them - will vote in the opposite lobby to their party leader.
But the Democratic Party is going to have to do the opposite -- that is have some serious discussions as to how it's going to confront social issues and not ignore abortion and homosexuality.
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Yossi Sarid, leader of the opposition Meretz Party, reached the same conclusion from the opposite point of departure.
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On the opposite coast, South Carolina Tea Party candidate Nikki Haley is a top contender for governor.
This adds an element of corruption to a man who was elected as head of the liberal party, a party that holds conservative economic views, quite the opposite of views held by Chavez.
Indeed, if Mr Cameron's first year at the Tory helm saw style privileged over substance, the party may now have lurched too far in the opposite direction.
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Croatia's reformers, meanwhile, make the opposite case: they will say the ruling party's bullies have an interest in misbehaving, so keeping the country in quarantine, because isolation guarantees their domination.
As I headed through the swing doors, a new party - aka Basil McCrea and John McCallister - was coming in the opposite direction.
Lim is official leader of the opposition with a seat opposite Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad in Parliament and a spiffy black Mercedes bought by the party.
According to either political party, however, health care involves the opposite of progress and innovation: getting less for even more and more, forevermore.
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And so both structures take as an assumption that grouping borrowers together can lead them to feel obligated to a third party, even though that is precisely the opposite of what the Bangladesh success story showed.
And just for a moment imagine if a liberal member of Congress made an equal and opposite accusation, saying that all the members of the tea party caucus were Nazis.
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As for the polarisation of the parties, Mr Norquist argues that there is no compromise to be found between a party that wants to go one way and another that wants to go precisely the opposite way.
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