Democratic Party

In the 2008 and 2012 elections, the Democratic Party candidate for President was Barack Obama. The candidate for 2016 has not yet been chosen.

As of 2013, there are more US voters registered as Republicans than as Democrats. But that doesn't mean everyone votes for their party affiliation.

In 2010, self-identification of US registered voters was 52% Republican to 43% Democrat.

It's easier to answer the question by how many years have the Republicans controlled both houses since 1950...the answer...only four...and two of those four the majority in the Senate was 51-49, a razor thin and actually Democrat controlled since at least four Republican senators were liberal in voting.

Independent Democrats was created on 2003-06-21.

A party in government consists of all of the elected and appointed officials who identify with a party.

The Declaration of Independence is still used today. It affects every person in the United States, because it help to protect their rights as humans.

Andrew Jackson ran for president in 1828. His opponents called him a jackass, so he decided to play with them and put donkeys on his campaign posters. An editorial cartoonist named Thomas Nast used donkeys to symbolize Democrats after that.

Campaign reform is not currently a goal or a topic to discussion. The goal of Republicans in 2014 is to hold on to the House and win enough new senate seats to get a majority in the Senate. The big problem is how to attract more votes from Hispanics, Blacks and women.

Arthur Brooks is a social scientist and the President of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. He has written books on charitable giving in America and his conclusions are controversial.

Brooks says that, even accounting for religious giving, conservatives give more than liberals to charity.

Brooks believes that he has uncovered a value problem in American society. His writings work his findings into supportive positions in this regard.

One of the things he says is that government should not move to replace charitable giving. That is; a government program to feed the hungry should not replace charitable soup-kitchens as this causes giving to be reduced.

But if giving is insufficient to provide for the hungry should people starve just so people will continue to give?

Brooks looked at broad categories of giving and then made his own interpretations. Giving is an important cultural norm. But it is probably true that the only people who give till it hurts are taxpayers.

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The Republican and Democratic parties do exist to maintain their own power.

Donkeys represent the democrats. Elephants represent the republicans.

He has been mentioned as being a democrat, but his views tend to lean towards the republican side of things lately as you can see when he is on Fox News.

The main political symbol for the US Democratic Party is the donkey, ideally incorporating at least a couple of stars and the colors red, white and blue.

A couple of years ago, the Democratic Party tried out a new logo, of a white letter D on a blue background, meant to evoke D for Drive versus R for Reverse, but its public reception was underwhelming. Most people know it only from Jon Stewart's ridicule. Thus, for the time being, they're sticking with the donkeys.

there's 1 independent (Bernie Sanders) and 1 independent democrat (Joe Lieberman)

This was the name of Jefferson's party. Madison and Monroe were also members. They opposed the Federalists of Adams.

Who cares, Judges are supposed to be unbiased. Look at the the judges ruling record if it is available instead of political affiliation

Most Southern Democrats supported President Lincoln's Reconstruction plan.

Although no direct national statistics are kept on the number of citizens who consider themselves Democrats or Republican because the national political parties are actually made up of the political parties in the 50 states (and the 11 or so territories) there are surveys that estimate political affiliation.

Most folks don't consider this statistic relevant as lots of Republicans could live in one state and lots of Democrats could live in another state and the states are the source of the electoral college where the ONLY national use of political parties are actually relevant. So, it is not something people care about except for bragging rights.

In general, about one-third of the country is Democratic, one-third Republican and one-third independent. These numbers swim around three or four points to a side depending on which party is looking like a real idiot at the moment.

Im not really sure if u mean skin color or party color. The party color is red. Most republicans are white and upper class.

White and upper class? Just because most blacks voted for Obama doesn't make us all white. And most Republicans are middle class. But I'm probably biased, cuz in Massachusetts, everyone is a Democrat.

I did a bit of research but i couldn't get any results. But it is true that a more teachers ARE Democrats and not Republican this most likely due to Democrats spending more on Education than their Republican counterparts. At my school for this mock election Obama had 80% McCain had 20%

Similarities between parties

*Both parties want to win.

*Both parties elect a candidate to represent them.

*Both parties advocate certain policies.

*Both parties have mascots for them.

*Both parties want to please the public.

Opposition to the Vietnam War divided the Democratic Party in 1968, with the older Democratic politicians such as Chicago Mayor Richard Daly lining up against the younger, more liberal Democrats who supported the ideals of assassinated presidential candidate Robert Kennedy. Moderate Sen Hubert Humphrey (MN) was the Democrats compromise candidate; he lost to Richard Nixon by less than 1.5% of the vote.