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- adjective politics Occurring within a political
party
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Secondly, a major D.C. advocacy group, the Club for Growth, decided to spend a whopping $200,000 to ensure Bennett's defeat -- the kind of intraparty hit that the Club can only afford to carry out in one or two races per cycle.
Bennett Lost in Utah. Should Other Conservatives Be Scared? 2010
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Washington Post: In Hawaii, intraparty feud may cost Democrats a seat in Congress
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SENATE GOP WHIP CONTEST COOLING OFF - Running tonight in Roll Call form David Drucker: "The contest for Senate Republican Whip has chilled following a backlash of rank-and-file GOP Senators, who are upset that a very public intraparty power struggle might sew discord and alienate voters in the midst of a national fiscal crisis."
HUFFPOST HILL - Senate Punk-Off Continues to Escalate Eliot Nelson 2011
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The Democrats treated that as a strictly intraparty issue. oboe Says:
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Case was first elected to the U.S. House in 2002 but gave up his seat to mount an upstart, intraparty primary bid against Akaka.
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Shortly after retiring from the Foreign Ministry in January 1966, she became secretary general of the Mapai Party and supported Prime Minister Levi Eshkol in intraparty conflicts.
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"We're always going to have intraparty little squabbles," Harkin said.
Bipartisan Group Of Senators Pledges To Work On Revamping 'No Child Left Behind' AP 2011
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Mollohan lost to state Sen. Mike Oliverio by 56 percent to 44 percent in what was by far the toughest intraparty race for the congressman since he was first elected in 1982.
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"We're always going to have intraparty little squabbles," Harkin said.
Bipartisan Group Of Senators Pledges To Work On Revamping 'No Child Left Behind' AP 2011
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President Obama's advisers acknowledged Tuesday that they were unprepared for the intraparty rift that occurred over the fate of a proposed public health insurance program, a firestorm that has left the White House searching for a way to reclaim the initiative on the president's top legislative priority.
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