The dynamic of California is that it's a Democratic-leaning state.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2003] Reference

The thing is, they're doing this to Democratic-leaning households.    From Wordnik.com.  [New McCain Robo-Slime Hits Obama's Ties To Rezko, Blames Dems For Financial Crisis] Reference

Watch out for massive attempts to disenfranchise Democratic-leaning voters.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Night At The Congressional Races] Reference

More people in prison come from urban, minority, Democratic-leaning districts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Census and Democracy: Maryland Fixes a Major Error] Reference

Our essays are a window into the world of Democratic or Democratic-leaning women.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Editor’s Desk] Reference

Like California, New Jersey is a Democratic-leaning state mired in financial trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meg Whitman: New Jersey Approach Is Model For California] Reference

Oregon is a Democratic-leaning state, but it is by no means a Democratic-strong state.    From Wordnik.com.  [GOP Senator Gordon Smith Facing New Democratic Challenger] Reference

Nor is it clear that all 59 Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents will support the bill.    From Wordnik.com.  [DISCLOSE Act Faces GOP Filibuster In Senate] Reference

Riddled with special advantages for Democratic-leaning groups and punishment for Republican-leaning groups.    From Wordnik.com.  [Senate Republicans Block Campaign Finance Bill] Reference

He had help from a slew of Democratic-leaning special interest groups that now want some changes of their own.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 20, 2008] Reference

On the right, Newt Gingrich scolded that the settlement is a Marshall Plan for Democratic-leaning trial lawyers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ifs, Ands And Butts] Reference

Since late February, his unfavorable rating has risen six points among all Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pew: Obama Losing White Working Class Dems To Hillary In Landslide] Reference

However, because this is a Democratic-leaning media outlet its regular commenters tend to be enthusiastic partisans.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Obama Infomercial: How To Spend Their War Chest Before The Election Is Over] Reference

The alliance has hired a prominent Democratic-leaning media firm, SKDKnickerbocker, to handle its communications strategy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unusual bunch of foes to postal rate increase unites as Affordable Mail Alliance] Reference

And in a Democratic-leaning state, Lou, I think you have a very competitive gubernatorial election in 2006, even if he is elected.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2003] Reference

In one of the ads, Democratic-leaning ads, a man who's missing part of his arm says the Iraqi war is a mistake and he's a veteran.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 18, 2004] Reference

And, unlike Hillary, he has barely been dumped on -- and even then, only by the more knowledgeable Democratic-leaning media outlets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: Rudy Has Broadest Cross-Party Appeal] Reference

To draw enough Democratic-leaning voters back into the electorate to stave off disaster, he'll have to stay in fighting form for the next two months.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is the fighting Obama back?] Reference

Some Democratic-leaning groups are e-mailing around this clip of Erin Burnett and Andrew Ross Sorkin hailing August's jobs report as good news indeed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good news and bad news in the August jobs report] Reference

In 2006, the organization mobilized roughly 100,000 members to call Democratic-leaning voters who had a history of only showing up intermittently at the polls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Loeb: The Seductions Of Clicking: How The Internet Can Make It Harder To Act ('Soul Of A Citizen')] Reference

GOP strategists note that the party has expanded the field of contested races into a number of Democratic-leaning states such as California, Washington and Wisconsin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tea Party Upsets Republican Plans] Reference

Norm Coleman may hang on to that seat, which, for all intents and purposes, means we have a centrist Democratic-leaning Senate at this point, Democratic-leaning House.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 5, 2008] Reference

Murray has proved a deft campaigner in her three previous bids and enjoys the advantage of a Democratic-leaning electorate that gave President Obama 58 percent in 2008.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dino Rossi, Patty Murray ad wars heating up] Reference

The president's approval ratings, of course, in the 30s, and the governor, himself, of course, campaigning for reelection in November, in this Democratic-leaning state.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 21, 2006] Reference

And they believe that because Connecticut is generally a blue state, or a Democratic-leaning state, that they have a good chance now of keeping the seat in Democratic hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 6, 2010] Reference

Here's where that stands: Tallying is under way in Palm Beach County, Broward County and Miami-Dade County -- three Democratic-leaning southern counties with large populations.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Florida Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Manual Recounts - November 20, 2000] Reference