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  Moderate Party
Welcome to the website of the Moderate Party, a political body seeking to be qualified as a political party in all 50 states.
The Moderate Party is fiscally responsible and socially inclusive.
Presently, the Moderate Party is qualified as an official political party in the State of Florida, and parallel efforts to establish the Moderate Party are underway in many other states.
www.modparty.net   (0 words)

  
 Moderate Party information - Search.com
The Moderate Unity Party (in Swedish: Moderata samlingspartiet, commonly referred to as Moderaterna) is a liberal conservative party in Sweden.
The non-socialist parties managed to remain in power until 1982 in different constellations but the period is not generally seen as period of success.
The Moderate Party led a non-socialist coalition between 1991 and 1994 with Carl Bildt as Prime Minister.
www.search.com /reference/Moderate_Party   (1095 words)

  
  Just What is a Moderate Republican?
The GOP emerged as the party of free enterprise.
Moderates insisted that only the federal government had the authority and political power to end the evils of segregation.
Moderates have no one to blame but themselves for feeling less welcome in a party that they've contributed to for over a century.Moderates must be militant if they are to re-emerge as a voice of reason within the GOP.
moderaterepublican.net /id1.html   (1523 words)

  
 Modern Instances: What is a Moderate?
I guess for me a moderate would be a person who holds their own beliefs and opinions but is not so blindly attached to them that the real business of government cannot be accomplished.
Moderation requires the acknowledgement that progress is just that: a series of steps toward a particular end, and not an all-at-once jump.
The Moderate Party recently formed in Florida and is working on expanding to all 50 states.
www.moderninstances.com /2005/07/what-is-moderate.html   (598 words)

  
 Riksdagen - The Moderate Party
In 1938 the Conservative Party was formed, which, in 1969, changed its name to the Moderate Party (Moderata samlingspartiet, m).
In 1976-78 and 1979-81, the Moderate Party formed part of the first non-socialist Governments after World War II, and in the four-party non-socialist Government of 1991-94 the party's leader, Carl Bildt, was Prime Minister.
Since 2006, the party has formed part of the four-party non-socialist government with Moderate Party Leader Fredrik Reinfeldt as Prime Minister.
www.riksdagen.se /templates/R_SubStartPage____12076.aspx   (0 words)

  
 Moderate Party
In the November 2004 election, a healthy 45 percent of voters nationwide described themselves as moderate; only 34 percent were conservative and a mere 21 percent were liberal.
In the November 2006 election, moderates increased to 47 percent of the voters, while conservatives and liberals decreased to 32 percent and 20 percent respectively.
We believe the Moderate Party is the solution to the problem of a two-party political system that just doesn't work.
www.modparty.net /majority.php   (164 words)

  
 NATIONAL MODERATE PARTY
So I sincerely hope that the moderates (aka nonradicals) can band together, or at least compromise (the spirit of this party) and stop the waste, bickering, and radicalism that seems all to often to prevail on both sides.
This party stands for compromises, cutting out wasteful government (the term wasteful being determined by the people, not by a small group) while keeping the essentials, such as medicare and social security.
And still there is no Moderate third party, indeed most third parties problems are that there even further to the left or to the right than the mainstream.
www.webspawner.com /users/moderate   (0 words)

  
 2006 – Year of the "No-Vote" and Birth of the "Progressive Moderate Party"
As have the Republican and Democratic parties their respective far right and far left platforms, the new PMP offers a sensible, moderate, forward looking platform embracing the best of the abandoned moderate positions and principles of both the Democratic and Republican parties to form a powerful new synergistic mix that now represents our silent majority.
The only way to start a new political party and I've given this a lot of thought, is to refuse corporate donations, accept union donations, work for the middle class, and push campaign reform.
The Liberal Party of America was a moderate entity, and we had a middle of the road mission statement and a very moderate agenda.
www.opednews.com /articles/opedne_mike_vie_061015_2006__96_the_year_of_t.htm   (1423 words)

  
 'Moderate' Islamic party expected to present new line of thought   (Site not responding. Last check: )
But whether the new self-proclaimed “moderate” party, which has spurred controversy in the political arena and the media, proves to be either, it is still expected to present a new line of thought far from the prevailing strict Muslim and leftist leanings among the country's registered 26 parties.
He told The Jordan Times that although the concept of a new political party is always good for the development of Jordan's political life, the question to ask is whether this new party will present the public with a new ideology and programme or will it become another frail and inactive grouping.
Maaytah said although he expects the new party to be pampered by the executive, it does not have the large public base the Brotherhood and the IAF command.
www.jordanembassyus.org /07152001002.htm   (885 words)

  
 Alaska Public Offices Commission
Registration of voters to achieve party status is distinguished from the party-building activities of established parties because it is specifically recognized by statute.
You state that the Party intends to endorse "candidates who contractually agree to abide by the philosophy defined in [its] ‘Dear Concerned Voter’ letter." Candidates who are not affiliated with a state party must file a nominating petition with the Division of Elections to be placed on the ballot.
Both required that to be a "party", a group representing a political program had to have nominated a candidate for governor who received at least three percent of the vote in the gubernatorial election.
www.state.ak.us /apoc/a09723.htm   (1930 words)

  
 moderate - Definitions from Dictionary.com
Moderate, temperate, judicious, reasonable all stress the avoidance of excess—emotional, physical, intellectual, or otherwise.
Moderate implies response or behavior that is by nature not excessive: a moderate drinker, a moderate amount of assistance.
Temperate, interchangeable with moderate in some general uses, usually stresses the idea of caution, control, or self-restraint: a surprisingly temperate response to the angry challenge.
dictionary.reference.com /browse/moderate   (681 words)

  
 UtterlyBoring.com: A Moderate's Manifesto
Both the Republicans and Democrats have much to lose from a significant third party that doesn't isolate itself in some corner of the political spectrum, but simply argues that there IS a spectrum, and that being in the center is a grand, glorious, even logical thing, and not something to be ashamed of.
The Moderate Party is emerging in California as a major political party with a sensible, middle-of-the-road approach.
We agree that the big two parties are fairly controlled by their extremists and don't represent the bulk of Americans who are, in fact, moderate.
utterlyboring.com /archives/2004/02/29/a_moderates_manifesto.php   (4324 words)

  
 Of Parties and Politics | The Moderate Voice   (Site not responding. Last check: )
It is blatantly undemocratic for the Democratic and Republican parties to have one set of standards for themselves to get on state ballots and a different set of standard for third parties to get on state ballots.
One of the strengths of the current two parties is that they have national access and millions of dollars, but they also have local institutions all over the the U.S., so that they can set hundreds of people to run around Ohio in 2004.
Then as people see these parties are for real and can really govern, which also gives the 3rd party candidates great experience to go with their great ideas, they will grow beyond their local roots.
themoderatevoice.com /politics/11728/of-parties-and-politics   (5126 words)

  
 Flags of political parties (Sweden)
Moderaterna (Moderate Party) is the Swedish conservative party.
There is no official party flag as far as I know, but the flags distributed by the party, is rather pale red with the party's symbol in the middle on a grey field.
Fria Moderata Studentförbundet (Free Conservative Students), a student organisation ideologically though not formally connected to the Moderate Party, has an official flag with is green (a slightly blueish green shade), on which is a white circle ("cannon ball") within a white laurel wreath.
www.fotw.us /flags/se-pol.html   (545 words)

  
 The Purple Party | MetaFilter
Any talk of a third party that does not address that fact is naive, simplistic rambling meant to assuage the egos of those who are "fed up" and want to justify tuning out or throwing their votes away on vanity candidates.
To propose a party of "moderates" is to embrace the absurd notion that all political attitudes can be situated on a one-dimensional line.
There was a similar blip of apparent Green Party viability around the same time in Minneapolis (yeah, not a moderate 3rd party, but still a 3rd party), when a chunk of the city council went Green; that's also receding into the distance as the DFL asserts control.
www.metafilter.com /51030/The-Purple-Party   (2812 words)

  
 MyDD :: Fool Me Once... And Dying Moderate Republicans
Moderate Republicans are a dangerous symbol because they are a mirage that tricks liberal and moderate voters into thinking that the natural governing center is an affable extremist.
Put a 'moderate' face on extremist policies or a party, and all of a sudden you have a country built on, say, corporate trade agreements that are reviled by the public at large.
So the 'moderate Republican' adult aesthetic - greatly weakened - may still be in charge of DC on November 8th in the form of Beltway journalists, politicians, and lobbyists, but the people are gradually voting it out of power.
www.mydd.com /story/2006/10/31/15114/612   (3619 words)

  
 Amazon.com: It's My Party, Too: The Battle for the Heart of the GOP and the Future of America: Books: Christine Todd ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Moderate Republicans fully deserve to be represented by the party and to have their views respected.
The party she knows today is one which excoriates moderates like Arlen Specter for the mere suggestion that they might support a judge who believes Roe v.
She believes that moderates can save this sinking political ship, yet I suspect the best moderates can offer is to go down with conservatives on a sinking ship which moderates may not even agree should be kept afloat.
www.amazon.com /Its-My-Party-Too-America/dp/1594200408   (2919 words)

  
 Democratic Wave in Congress Further Erodes Moderation in GOP - washingtonpost.com
His independent streak and moderate views had engendered the allegiance of his Democratic-leaning district for the past 30 years, and he broke with his party and President Bush in October 2002 by voting against the Iraq war.
With the defeat of Leach and several other Republican moderates Nov. 7, the Democrats' victory in the midterm election accelerates a three-decade-old pattern of declining moderate influence and rising conservative dominance in the Republican Party.
For the purpose of the study, a moderate is defined as someone whose votes consistently fall near the middle of the political spectrum on both fiscal and social issues.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/06/AR2006120601954.html   (741 words)

  
 The Washington Note
The Republican Party that I knew, that I grew up in, a moderate party, a party that believed in fiscal discipline, a party that believed in small government, a party that had genuine conservative values.
The two party system perpetuates apathy; it in effect forces people away from getting involved in the political process which allows the continuance of the owning of the parties by corporations and special interests.
The "moderate" wing of the GOP has become the Christie Todd Whitman wing -- she who was just kept in a federal lawsuit against the EPA for its lying to NYC about the toxins released after 9/11.
www.thewashingtonnote.com /archives/001297.php   (2413 words)

  
 The American Moderate Movement
Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
In order to achieve this there must be "rules of political engagement" that are accepted by persons running for office, recognized by the media, and enforced by the voting public.
Compromise - To bind the society together it is necessary that policies be based on compromises that recognize the legitimate concerns on all parties.
www.amherst.edu /~pdchapin/amm/index.php   (338 words)

  
 Riksdagen - The parties in the Riksdag
Anyone wishing to become a member of the Riksdag must be nominated by a politcal party.
During the current electoral period (2006-2010) seven political parties are represented in the Riksdag.
The party groups in the Riksdag have a strong position and play an important role in the work of the Riksdag and in politics in general in Sweden.
www.riksdagen.se /templates/R_Page____773.aspx   (0 words)

  
 Middle path moderate party could mend partisan politics problem | The Rice Thresher
No, not one of those lame parties you went to last Friday at which you stood against the wall drinking beer or urine — you’re not sure exactly what — and listened to that overplayed rap song you have heard 50 million times.
These “moderates,” as they like to be called, need to realize that they do not need their hateful, spiteful and unethical partisan companions in the blue-and-red world to survive.
So this is what should happen: Two well-known moderates, a Republican and a Democrat, should join together, create a distinct and explicit platform, announce it to their fellow moderates and let the fun begin.
the.ricethresher.org /opinion/2006/01/20/moderate_party_mend_partisan_problems   (584 words)

  
 People's Republic of China: III   (Site not responding. Last check: )
By 1962, however, he began an offensive to purify the party, having grown increasingly uneasy about what he believed were the creeping "capitalist" and antisocialist tendencies in the country.
The drafting of intellectuals for manual labor was part of the party's rectification campaign, publicized through the mass media as an effort to remove "bourgeois" influences from professional workers--particularly, their tendency to have greater regard for their own specialized fields than for the goals of the party.
Their moderate line favoring modernization of all sectors of the economy was formally confirmed at the Tenth National Party Congress in August 1973, at which time Deng Xiaoping was made a member of the party's Central Committee (but not yet of the Political Bureau).
www-chaos.umd.edu /history/prc3.html   (2489 words)

  
 McHenry County Blog: Scheurer’s Moderate Party Achieves “Established Party” Status
This is a journal of news and opinion designed to bring to light matters of public interest and to encourage public participation in the governmental process.
Of course, one can’t be sure the Cook County Clerk’s Office is reporting accurate voting results, but, if it is and if my math is correct, it appears that 8th congressional district candidate Bill Scheurer’s Moderate Party has achieved “Established Party” status.
Candidates running on an established party ticket have to get substantially fewer signatures to get on the ballot than do independent or 3rd parties that have not reached that established status.
www.mchenrycountyblog.com /2006/11/scheurers-moderate-party-achieves.html   (257 words)

  
 Kansas, the three-party state: moderate and conservative Republicans compete on the legislative battlefield - Political ...
The moderate and conservative wings of Republican parties often function separately, each running their own candidates for major offices, raising their own money, and often fighting bitterly against one another only to leave Democrats as tie-breakers.
The split within the party has led to tactical shifts in which conservatives and Democrats often team up to embarrass the ruling moderate Republicans.
In Kansas, the break in the Republican party is not surprising, given that the GOP has dominated politics throughout Kansas's history as a state, except during a few years of populist insurgence in the late 19th century.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2519/is_10_24/ai_110813306   (866 words)

  
 The Moderate Republican: Why I'm (Still) a Republican
Well, in a two party system they are going to choose the GOP that is controlled by the far right, the anti-choice, anti-gay, theocratic party.
Frank is right that the GOP is no longer the moderate party it once was, but that was because many of the southern segregationists who left the Dems went over to the GOP and remade it into their image.
The GOP doesn't have to be the right wing party that it is. If moderates and principled conservatives were able to gain power again, the Republicans could be the party of moderation.
atlblogs.com /moderaterepublican/archives/001318.html   (1395 words)

  
 The Moderate Manifesto
Moderation is sadly needed by all American powers to become itself a power.
It is high time that Moderates should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the spectre of divisiveness with a manifesto of moderation itself.
To this end, a Party of One assembled in Duluth and sketched the following manifesto, to be published, sadly, in only one newspaper and in only the English language.
www.cpinternet.com /~mdmagree/moderate_2004-11-18.htm   (945 words)

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