the hunger for consensus
One of those awful passages which explain why David Broder is considered the “dean” of American political reporting http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/01/AR2006030101934_pf.html:
“But what about Hillary Rodham Clinton? She leads all the early polls for the Democratic nomination. But can she avoid being seen simply as a battle-scarred veteran of the partisan Washington wars? Is there anything in her record that speaks to the hunger for consensus?”