DFA used the Internet-based, grassroots organizing that Dean had created for his presidential campaign to help like-minded Democrats get elected.

Woolsey called a meeting of like-minded Democrats in February 1873 in Tucson.

He also said he or a like-minded Democrat could win with the right coalition, and he urged all the candidates to begin running a more substantive, less negative campaign.

They and like-minded Democrats should reject the budget plans when they come to a vote on the House and Senate floors this week.

Although the Mayor had rarely, if ever, uttered a kind word about Mr. Ferrer, yesterday he began praising him as a moderate whose withdrawal had orphaned like-minded Democrats.

"They can vote the way they want to," Mr. Hatch said of Mr. Nunn and like-minded Democrats.

Mr. Bush may well find that his skill at dealing with like-minded conservative Democrats in Texas will not be as transferable to Washington as he believes, particularly after the acrimony over Florida.

Known as one of the least partisan House members, he voted more often with like-minded Democrats than with the Reagan or Bush administrations.

Also, Mel regularly gives money to other like-minded Democrats.

The other is a broader effort by Mr. Boehlert and like-minded Democrats to require stiff new controls on dirty power plants as part of any bill deregulating the utility industry.