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Reuters Ed Miliband, seen Sept. 28 in Manchester, has become a standardbearer for advocates of stimulus spending.
British Labour Chief Faces Balancing Act on Spending Alistair MacDonald 2010
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Peter J. Boettke of George Mason University is the emerging standardbearer for a revived Austrian school of economics.
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McClintock validates Poizner as the conservative standardbearer in the gubernatorial primary and rips Whitman for backing Wall Street bailouts and "environmental extremism."
William Bradley: "GoldMeg Sachs Whitman" Roils the California Governor's Race 2010
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McClintock validates Poizner as the conservative standardbearer in the gubernatorial primary and rips Whitman for backing Wall Street bailouts and "environmental extremism."
William Bradley: "GoldMeg Sachs Whitman" Roils the California Governor's Race 2010
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Human activity has "contributed to the issues that we're dealing with now with these impacts" on the earth's climate, Palin, who is Republican standardbearer John McCain's running mate, said in an interview aired Tuesday with CBS News 'Katie Couric.
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Not since 1940 has the Republican Party not annointed its standardbearer years in advance.
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McCain was deemed a racist simply because he existed and was the GOP standardbearer.
Sophia A. Nelson: Jeanine Garafolo on Racism -- Why She is Way off Base 2009
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Not since 1940 has the Republican Party not annointed its standardbearer years in advance.
Gore 2009
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Krugman was a lonely and heroic standardbearer for sanity during a time when our politics and our discourse were becoming ever more unhinged.
In An Interview With TPM, Krugman Ramps Up Case Against Obama 2009
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In the nature of things, being a lonely standardbearer for sanity can may you a little, well, strident, but when things were at their darkest, I looked to him for guidance and only rarely disagreed with his judgments.
In An Interview With TPM, Krugman Ramps Up Case Against Obama 2009
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