The Democrats had championed the cause of expansion, informally linking the controversial Texas annexation issue with a claim to the entire Oregon Country, thus appealing to both Northern and Southern expansionists.

The self-styled maverick had been driven by polls to adopt the issues, if not the precise stands, that Bill Clinton and the Democrats championed.

Some Democrats championed this system, but the Ferrer camp and the state party are now chafing under its limits as they face a self-financed incumbent.

These are the causes that Democrats have long championed and will continue to fight for.

In his first six months in office, Governor Florio and fellow Democrats in the Legislature championed an unabashed kind of class politics.

Democrats immediately championed the decision, predicting that he might influence some Republicans to vote with Democrats to dismiss the charges.

As the most articulate of the Democrats championing passage of the Congressional resolution to endorse the use of force in the Persian Gulf, Mr. Solarz won unusual national attention.

A Democrat, she championed equal rights for women, environmental protection, and programs for children, the elderly and the poor.

In outline, the changes Mr. Pataki advocates strongly resemble those Mr. Cuomo and many Democrats championed and which the Senate rejected for years.

Liberal Democrats have long championed the rights of the disabled and want to expand Federal health programs to cover more people.