Democratic Party

If they are on it they love it. If they are super rich and will never need it, they love it. If they want to steal from the pool of money to spend it on something else, they love it.

But they don't want to pay for it or give it to people who need it.

Blue has become the color used to represent Democrats on political maps.

I am not sure that the party had anything to do with choosing this color. The color red is assigned to the Republicans, but red seems more fitting for the Democrat political goals since socialists have long been known as Reds.

The democratics consider the donkey as intelligent and brave.When Thomas Nast created the donkey symbol he thought the donkey symbolized stubborn. He thought the democratics were stubborn.

It depends on how the word "largest" is read.

If it refers to population, Indonesia is the region's most populous democracy with over 200 million individuals of voting age.

If it refers to land-area, Australia is the largest country in the area by territory and also happens to be a democracy.

Good question. Ideology is, essentially, the way one thinks about the world around them. It is a collection of beliefs and world views. "World views" includes how you think about your neighborhood as well as how you think about the world.

Republicans and Democrats are members of the dominant American political parties and choose their affiliation, to some extent, on the basis of their personal ideology.

What you find out when you look broadly is that the ideologies of the two political parties are not different at all. Both believe in the "American Dream." They are both comfortable with the political institutions in the country. They both expect foreign policy to protect and extend American interests.

It is only when you look in a more narrow fashion at individual policy differences do you see any significant differentiation in ideology.

One might suggest that the issue comes down to the basic nature of man. Republicans see man as essentially evil and stained with original sin and Democrats see man as essentially good and imbued with the potential of godliness.

Two very different approaches, but on the larger questions not much difference at all.

Belief is a difficult attitude to evaluate. When it comes to the federal budget Democrats probably believe as much as Republicans or independents.

A budget is a political document. It reflects the goals and aspirations of the people who develop that document. Those people, whether Democrats or Republicans, are motivated by the different constituencies that support the various goals of the budget.

Basic governmental budgeting is a hodge-podge of competing elements. Revenue, Expenditures and Deficit or Surplus makes up the large portions of the budget. Democrats believe that revenue should be allocated fairly in the economy. Democrats believe that expenditures should be focused on problem solving and different practical missions as well as providing resources to mend holes in the economic fabric of the country. Democrats believe that surpluses should be returned to the revenue producers, but not so much as to create great debt.

Republicans believe that the economic fabric of the nation is whole and without systemic aberrations, except those caused by government interference. They don't believe government is a problem solver only a problem maker. They know that deficits are monies that we owe to ourselves and reducing revenue is one way to reduce government.

The Democratic-Republican Party was the forerunner of the Democratic Party. It was started by Thomas Jefferson.

Democrats believe in government programs and helping the lower class via taxes from the upper and middle classes. Republicans believe in a hands off approach to the economy. They believe in capitalism and earning what you work for.

First of all, it is important to understand the concept of the "bell shaped curve." Popularity wins elections. Popularity resides close to the center of the bell shaped curve, which is to say, the distribution of opinions. Some voters are on the extreme right, tending towards Fascism. Some voters are on the extreme left, tending towards Communism. But elections are won near the middle of the bell shaped curve, which is where most voters cluster. Therefore, to win elections, both the Democrats and Republicans need to appeal towards the middle.

This is not to say that there are no differences between Democrats and Republicans; but it means that both parties are constrained by having to win enough votes to be elected, which means appealing to the middle, and not being so different that "mass appeal" is lost.

There are differences even within the Democratic Party and within the Republican Party. And the same principle applies, regarding the need to appeal to the center of the bell shaped curve.

The largest landslides occur in elections in which the losing candidate strays too far from the middle. For example, Barry Goldwater the Republican lost in a landslide because he was too far to the right. George McGovern the Democrat lost in a landslide because he was too far to the left.

The assigning of colors has never been officially set, and depending on the outlet you watched before about 2000, either party could be either color. Then when the 2000 presidential election came and recounts and court battles extended the process, the mainstream media found themselves reporting more and more often on the assignment of states, and eventually adopted the red state/blue state model for simplicity.

12 Democrats

19 Republicans,

as of October 2010.

Slavery was the major issue in the 1856 election. Democratic Party candidate James Buchanan endorsed popular sovereignty giving the power to determine the legality of slavery to the inhabitants of the territory seeking statehood, rather than to Congress. The Republican Party opposed the extension of slavery into the territories. Buchanan warned that if the Republicans won the election, their anti-slavery position would lead to civil war. Buchanan won 19 states including all of the southern states. Buchanan also won a few northern states including Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Illinois and Indiana.

George Washington. Abraham Lincoln wasn't either.

California Democrats hold a 34 to 19 margin.

Democrats, and then only if they are registered to vote in their county.

It support state’s rights

the whigs and democrats embraced the idea of popular sovereignty

the have been around as long as 10 centuries

The 1968 Democratic National Convention was held in Chicago.

Woodrow Wilson, the Democrat candidate, defeated incumbent President William Howard Taft of the Republicans, former President Theodore Roosevelt standing for the Progressive Party and Eugene Debs of the Socialists in the 1912 US Presidential election. Wilson got 41.8%, Roosevelt 27.4%, Taft 23.2% and Debs got 6%.