For the party as a whole, of course, Kosovo is no aid to electoral advantage.
What is sometimes less noticed is that the congressional Republicans are falling over themselves to make the state governors the dominant force in the party as a whole.
That idea has divided the evangelical community and the party as a whole, with some supporting it and others opposing what they say amounts to a reward for lawbreaking.
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Pelosi has stressed she is only concerned it will be a problem for the Democratic party as a whole if superdelegates are perceived to have overturned the will of the people by backing a candidate who is behind in pledged delegates.
Today, switching VP Biden out would reflect almost entirely as a decision by President Obama rather than the Democratic Party as a whole.
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John Edwards of North Carolina have shifted some of their focus toward supporting the Democratic Party as a whole.
Moreover, forcing Democrats to account for their behavior will have a salutary long-term effect on their party and on the US as a whole.
But some of the more thoughtful Tories realise that their party and the country as a whole need to consider the nature of English identity, in an age of devolution and an ever-advancing European Union.
And they did not necessarily want to send the message to the people as a whole that they were not the party of the middle.
But the risk remains that on economic matters the centre that Mr Obama moves to would be that of his party, not that of the country as a whole.
Ramming a bill through on a party-line vote may also be unpopular with the public as a whole.
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Equally, we have got to address the issue of how party politics better connects, indeed reconnects, with the voters as a whole.
The Conservative Party will be opposing this bill, as well as the constitution as a whole, and the Liberal Democrats have declared themselves in favour.
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Look, we are a big party and I don't doubt that there will be differing viewpoints, just as -- well, the Republican Party appears to have some differing viewpoints as well on a whole host of issues.
But the Taliban have also condemned democracy as a whole, meaning that any political party taking part in the elections could be considered fair game by the militant group.
Obama's Democratic Party, and indeed the US political establishment as a whole, received a jolt on Tuesday when Republican Scott Brown won the Massachusetts seat in the US Senate that had been held by the Democratic Kennedy dynasty since 1952.
But until the Nov. 3 midterm elections, he was seen as an outspoken conservative, not a spokesman for the whole party.
In other words, Republicans in Florida have had some success in claiming to be the party of social reform the same argument that George W. Bush is trying to make to the country as a whole.
He still presides, as he must, over a shadow cabinet in which almost the whole spectrum of the party is still represented.
The two-party system is a boon for America when it is seen as providing a voice for two parts of a unified whole.
Tea Party Express and FreedomWorks spent the last four years making millions for its leadership, but failing to strengthen the movement as a whole.
The issue with Windows Phone as a whole is when you step out of the built in software, and start exploring the third party application situation.
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He also knows that although the British as a whole may regard the empire as a source of national pride, many members of his own party would not see things that way, not to mention all those former imperial subjects who might have views on the subject.
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