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Attrition and Infighting Sap [NY] Conservative Party's Power
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Nov 28, 2005 01:23pm |
| Category | Analysis |
| News Date | Nov 25, 2005 01:00pm |
| Description | Perhaps no minor party has shaped modern-day politics in New York as profoundly as the state's Conservative Party, sending a little-known candidate to the United States Senate in 1970 and helping orchestrate the defeat of a Democratic star, Gov. Mario M. Cuomo, a generation later.
But now, with the steady erosion of its base of power over the last decade, the party faces the grim prospect of going the way of the Brooklyn Dodgers, The New York Herald Tribune and the subway token.
In one of the more intriguing plots of the 2006 political season, the Conservative Party is at risk of losing its place on the statewide ballot next year, political analysts say, and some Republicans are questioning the value of their longtime alliance with Conservatives at a time that tensions between the two parties are high. |
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