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- noun Plural form of
progressive .
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Examples
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Campaigned for McGoverna, Dukakis and Mondale, but what you call progressives have destroyed the party.
Think Progress » Air America To Declare Bankruptcy, But Progressive Radio Remains Strong 2006
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Campaigned for McGoverna, Dukakis and Mondale, but what you call progressives have destroyed the party.
Think Progress » Air America To Declare Bankruptcy, But Progressive Radio Remains Strong 2006
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During the Bush administration certain progressives and conservatives, from then Senator Jon Corzine (D-NJ) to Bush's National Economic Council head Lawrence Lindsay, favored payroll tax cuts as a superior jobs stimulus.
Stephen Kent: Undead on Arrival: Why Payroll Tax Cuts Keep Coming Back -- Part 2 Stephen Kent 2010
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In other words, our poster who has taken up arms against progressives is predicting he will be on the losing side.
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During the Bush administration certain progressives and conservatives, from then Senator Jon Corzine (D-NJ) to Bush's National Economic Council head Lawrence Lindsay, favored payroll tax cuts as a superior jobs stimulus.
Stephen Kent: Undead on Arrival: Why Payroll Tax Cuts Keep Coming Back -- Part 2 Stephen Kent 2010
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The challenge, for both conservatives and progressives, is to resist the knee-jerk over-reaction that characterize every minor disagreement or compromise as a death blow to reform.
Wonk Room » Is Compromising With The Health Industry Bad For Health Care Reform? 2009
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The good thing about liberals/progressives is that we know how to share.
Think Progress » Fifteen States Have Polluter-Driven Resolutions To Deny Climate Threat 2010
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Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society. paraphrasing bill mahr: the job of progressives is to drag the conservatives into the next century kicking and screaming.
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Attempts to avoid that result involving the exertion of cultural dominance by recruiting allies among the less liberal may actually impede that recognition from happening, as tribal instincts distract progressives from the self-examination of their doctrines that is already overdue.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Crisis, the Health Care Bill, and the Growth of Government 2010
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The blind hypocrisy of the modern progressives is truly astonishing!
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Great Moments in Asymmetry 2010
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