Picking nits

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Perhaps this is just nit-picking, but here is a sentence from a story about the Bolton nomination:

Dodd (D-Conn.) and Biden have led their party's opposition to Bolton, a combative former State Department official who is championed by many conservatives and strenuously opposed by liberals.

The Bolton nomination is a conservative v. liberal issue? I think that the Bolton-UN guru Steve Clemons would disagree.