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Liberal groups see welcome mat in Washington
latimes.com - 11/29/2008
Liberal groups see welcome mat in Washington
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Environmentalists, labor unions, civil rights advocates and others place their hopes on Obama. > For years, progressive groups and their causes have been in the political wilderness. Now, with Barack Obama preparing to take the White House and Democrats tightening their hold on Congress, the party's liberal constituencies can see their way to a promised land.
Liberal groups feel welcome again in Washington - Los Angeles Times
latimes.com - 11/29/2008
Liberal groups feel welcome again in Washington - Los Angeles Times
— latimes.com — Labor unions, environmentalists and other liberal groups are eagerly preparing for new confrontations with business and conservative... interests. They feel secure in having allies in Washington's power centers, 14 years after Democrats last controlled ... (more) Liberal groups feel welcome again in Washington - Los ...

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TPM Election Central — ... The Los Angeles Times reports that liberal interest groups -- ranging from unions to environmentalists to gay-rights activists -- are looking forward to having some influence in government against after eight years in the wilderness, and with the strongest Democratic majorities in Congress since the 1970s. "It is this different feeling, that the door is not closed -- the door is opening," said Rea Carey, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. ...

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