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Ms. Stone said efforts are already under way to influence the makeup of the platform committee; down the road, abortion rights supporters also have the option of trying to gather a majority of six state delegations necessary to suspend the rules and allow a debate on abortion on the floor of the convention.
The former prime minister was too polite to ask – but some Blairites are not – why Mr Miliband earlier declared the death of New Labour when its animating idea was to gather a majority behind the party by reaching beyond its tribal heartlands and core voters.
"A coalition government of the old two-party system would not have sufficient legitimacy or sufficient domestic and international credibility if it would gather a slim majority," he said.
At its latest conference in South Africa, Cites was unable to gather a two-thirds majority to upgrade the level of protection for elephants, largely due to the EU voting as a bloc and refusing to back the toughest measures.
Worse for Democrats, until today Mr. Jepsen had repeatedly vowed to oppose Mr. Curry, who weeks ago gathered a clear majority of the state party's delegates to win its official nomination, in a bitter party primary in September.
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