Sentences with phrase «wedge issue in the campaign»
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Earlier this year, memos obtained by The Human Rights Campaign in a Maine civil actions suit revealed that NOM aims at making gay marriage a wedge issued «between gays and blacks,» according to the released confidential plans.
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(CNN)- Not wasting a minute, Democratic campaign groups in Congress are bringing Rep. Paul Ryan's budget plan — which he's set to release Tuesday — into the line of fire, attempting to make it a wedge issue in the 2014 midterm elections.
Efforts to repeal the standards are being actively pushed in 19 states and are already becoming a wedge issue in the 2016 presidential campaign.
That measure, overwhelmingly approved, sparked one of the most politically - charged campaigns in California history that was characterized by a painful subtext of wedge issues from race to immigration and poverty.