Sentence examples for partisan wedge from inspiring English sources

Brian Katulis, a national security expert with the Center for American Progress, a liberal research organization, said that Republicans were trying to "make Israel a partisan wedge issue".

For Maria S. Young, who is from Mexico, it is the tough-on-illegal-immigrants laws of recent years — in places like Arizona, where 30 percent of residents are Latino, and Alabama, which had the second-highest Latino growth rate in the nation between 2000 and 2010 — that have driven the partisan wedge.

With her call for making Israel a partisan wedge issue she has chosen the latter course of action.

J Street wants to turn it into a partisan wedge issue that divides Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, young and old.

But as likely they are afraid to offend their Congressional Republican allies, who desperately want to keep climate change as a partisan wedge issue.

This past week in Glick's ongoing saga of fighting to make sure Israel never even explores any compromises with the Palestinians, she argues for turning Israel into a partisan wedge issue in the United States.

Ideological base voters stretching to the edges, Divisive issues in primaries, driving partisan wedges.

While there are areas of common ground, many high profile environmental issues have become partisan wedges, with the two parties disagreeing even on the fundamentals of science.

The Texas AG is mis-using his office for partisan, political wedge-issue gain.

If they take a similar approach in other areas, some argue that YoSoy132 could become a wedge, breaking through the partisan divisions that have kept Mexico in gridlock.

"The way you get your base up is to be more and more partisan and more and more vitriolic on wedge issues," says Rick Davis, a Republican strategist.