The question, for different Democrats at different times, was whether the careful repositioning at the heart of Clintonism ceded too much to the right, reacted too much to the polls and endangered the party's soul.
Yesterday, Nick Clegg took soundings from his parliamentary party and his federal executive – both groups whose support he would have to secure in a vote with a three-quarters majority if he were to take the Lib Dems into a coalition, or anything that endangered the party's independence.
Mr. Bush's advisers have expressed concern that the McCain-Feingold proposal would endanger their party politically.
The president is mired in a miserable economy that is endangering his party's hold on power; White House aides don't want him to appear distracted by a debate that may seem superfluous to many Americans.
The White House has reached out to labor after President Bush's early actions upset some Republicans, who told the administration that those moves, like repealing ergonomics rules, might endanger the party's hopes to retain control of the House in 2002.
"I know I can't say, 'I am the leader, follow me.' " But he also sought to convince the delegates that Labor's current problems were not a crisis, just a return to rough politics as usual and that overreaction would endanger the party's continuing in power.
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N'Guessan has criticized Ouattara for failing to foster post-war reconciliation and has chastised the FPI's own hardliners for endangering the party's future with their call for a boycott.
While there are some worthwhile recommendations in there, such as rethinking immigration reform and pointing out how extremists are endangering the party, most of the report is still focused on messaging and on the need to re-brand their product, without reaching an honest understanding of what is really wrong with the GOP today.
This month, Mr. Driehaus became the first Democrat to fall victim to a triage of endangered incumbents by party leaders, which deeply cut his television advertising and dashed any hopes that Mr. Obama would come and help rally voters.
