Rae later joked that Kefauver gave him a $ 20 tip one Christmas, whereas Pat Nixon only gave him a quarter and made him more sympathetic to Democrats from that moment.

On February 4, 2007, Bush joked in a speech to House Democrats, stating " Now look, my diction isn't all that good.

Republicans often joked that he and Tip O ' Neill were the only Democrats who really drove President Reagan crazy.

The political columnist Mike Royko joked that it is Chicago's only Republican expressway, since the others all named after Democrats ( though since that observation Bishop Louis Henry Ford, a non-political figure, had an expressway named in his honor ).

The Democrats joked, " As goes Maine, so goes Vermont ," and the magazine was completely discredited because of the poll and soon folded.

The Progressives finished second nationally ahead of the incumbent Republican, President William Howard Taft, but still lost the election to the Democrats and their candidate, Woodrow Wilson.

Containment was supported by Democrats and internationalist Republicans ( led by Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan, Governor Thomas Dewey of New York, and general Dwight D. Eisenhower ), but was opposed by the isolationists led by Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio.

The Democrats selected Howard Metzenbaum to replace Young, but Metzenbaum lost the race to Taft, who was again the Republican nominee.

In the 1950s, conservatives such as Robert Taft and Barry Goldwater, who rallied against " me-too Republicans ", were considered outside of the mainstream of the then-centrist GOP ; serious consideration was given to leaving the GOP and forming a new conservative party in cooperation with conservative Democrats.

Splitting the progressive vote with the Democrats throughout the 1960s, the Charterites barely survived the return of Republican rule, with Charles Phelps Taft II its only elected official by 1961.

The coalition was led at times both by Charterites ( Bobbie L. Sterne and Charles Phelps Taft II ) and by Democrats ( Tom Luken and Jerry Springer ).

Democrats took open seats in Arizona, Hawaii, Nebraska, and defeated incumbents John Glenn Beall, Jr. of Maryland, James L. Buckley of New York's Conservative Party, Robert Taft, Jr. of Ohio, and Bill Brock of Tennessee.

Unfortunately for the Republicans, Taft ’ s disapproval of Oklahoma ’ s proposed constitution and his advice that the people vote against it caused the voters to react in favor of the Democrats.

Taft was not as popular as his predecessor, Theodore Roosevelt, but won with Roosevelt's backing, and his Republican Party lost only a handful of seats to the opposition Democrats.

Governor Bob Taft, and Speaker Larry Householder ( both Republicans who sat on the committee to redraw House and Senate districts ) were named in a lawsuit by Ohio Democrats who claim redistricting of Hamilton County House district and other areas violates the Voting Rights Act.

Some anti-organization Democrats saw in the program an opportunity to end the bitter internal fight within the Democratic party that has been going on for the last three years.

The town has active branches of the Conservative Party, Liberal Democrats and United Kingdom Independence Party.

The parliament has, since equal and common suffrage was introduced in 1906, been dominated by secular Conservatives, the Centre Party ( former Agrarian Union ), and Social Democrats.

Nevertheless, none of these has held a single-party majority, with the notable exception of 1916 elections where Social Democrats gained 103 of the 200 seats.

Fianna Fáil has led governments including parties of the centre-left ( Labour and the Green Party ) and of the centre-right ( the now-defunct Progressive Democrats ) and is often seen as a pragmatic party of the establishment.

Fianna Fáil joined the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party on 16 April 2009, and has sat in its associated Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group in the European Parliament since the 2009 European elections.

" Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner has made all of his political donations to Democrats.

This seat has been held by the Liberal Democrats or their predecessors the Liberal Party since 1950, longer than any other they represent in the UK.

A few earlier syndicated programs were hosted by prominent Democrats who were not experienced broadcasters, such as Jim Hightower, Jerry Brown, Mario Cuomo and Alan Dershowitz ; these met with limited success, and Air America has been faced with various legal and financial problems.

A report in The Guardian, however, suggested that American politics has been " stuck in a two-way fight between Republicans and Democrats " since the Civil War, and that third-party runs had little meaningful success.

The UK, like several other states, has sometimes been called a " two-and-a-half " party system, because parliamentary politics is dominated by the Labour Party and Conservative Party, with the Liberal Democrats holding a significant number of seats ( but still substantially less than Labour and the Conservatives ), and several small parties ( some of them regional or nationalist ) trailing far behind in number of seats.

In its postwar political history, Milan has been governed for more than thirty years by a center-left coalition including the Italian Socialist Party and the Christian Democrats, while in the 1980s the political balance shifted further left with coalitions between the Socialists, the Communists and the newborn Greens.

After the 2012 elections, Labour has the largest representation on the Assembly ( twelve members ), followed by nine from the Conservatives, two Liberal Democrats, and two Greens

At times, he has supported Democrats in California, including liberal House of Representatives member Sam Farr in 2002 and Governor Gray Davis, whom he voted for in 1998 and hosted pricey fundraisers for in 2002 and 2003.

From the 2006 election until the 2010 election the council was led by Conservatives, and since 2010 it has been led by the Liberal Democrats ; of the district's present councillors the city has elected:

In statewide elections it has gone for Democrats both Eliot Spitzer and Hillary Clinton won it in 2006 with over 60 % of the vote.

The rise in the number of Democrats has resulted in there being a virtual tie in the numbers of Democrats, Republicans and those not registered in a political party in Columbia County.

He has since been followed by other gay and lesbian politicians in Parliament: Bloc Québécois MPs Réal Ménard and Raymond Gravel, fellow New Democrats Libby Davies and Bill Siksay, and Liberal Party of Canada MPs Scott Brison and Mario Silva, as well as Senators Laurier LaPierre and Nancy Ruth.

Schenectady County typically leans Democratic, it has given small to moderate leads to Democrats since 1988 in presidential elections.

Sullivan County is generally considered a swing county as it has been won by both Democrats and Republicans.

While Clinton County has historically been Republican like the rest of central Pennsylvania, Democrats captured the registration edge in early 2008.

When Bourbon Democrats regained power in 1882, they returned the state government to Baton Rouge, where it has since remained.

Brzezinski has been considered to be the Democrats ' response to Republican Henry Kissinger.

This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

Before World War II, as the main non-revolutionary left-wing party, the Social Democrats fared best among non-Catholic workers as well as intellectuals favouring social progressive causes and increased economic equality.

Populists did best in Alabama, where electoral chicanery probably carried the day for Democrats.

However at the 1997 election, the Liberal Democrats won 46 seats, their best performance since the 1920s, though they did take a smaller share of the vote than they had done at the 1992 election.

The Democrats countered that the Republicans ' proposal was statistically invalid, an example of the ecological fallacy, and the best solution would be to call each of the felons into court and ask them to swear under oath which political candidate they voted for, after which time their vote would be removed from the total.

Emphasizing that “ they were more southern than the Democrats ,” the party grew within the South by going “ after the abolition issue with unabashed vigor and glee .” With both parties arguing who could best defend southern institutions, the nuances of the differences between free soil and abolitionism, which became an issue in the late 1840s with the Mexican War and territorial expansion, never became part of the political dialogue.

The election result is historic in being the worst result for the Social Democrats ever ( 34, 6 percent ) in a general election with universal suffrage ( introduced in 1921 ) and the best result for the Moderates since 1928.

That is the best organised lobby, you shouldn't underestimate the grip it has on American politics – no matter whether it's Republicans or Democrats.

Although his percentage of the vote increased, Fraser was edged out by the Liberal Democrats by 384 votes, after a tactical voting campaign urging Dorset residents to cast their votes in the best way to defeat the incumbent Conservatives.

Before the 2006 midterm elections, The American Conservative urged its readers to vote for Democrats, saying, " It should surprise few readers that we think a vote that is seen — in America and the world at large — as a decisive “ No ” vote on the Bush presidency is the best outcome.

Cuba was of special importance to Southern Democrats, whose economic and political interests would be best served by the admission of another slave state to the Union.

The Christian Democrats won a resounding victory with 48 percent of the vote ( their best result ever ).

The Liberal Democrats considered this byelection their best chance of gaining a seat since 1997 and selected a local Pharmacist Sandra Gidley ( who had been Mayor of Romsey ) as their candidate.

Fears in the Italian electorate of a possible Communist takeover proved crucial for the electoral outcome on 18 April ; the Christian Democrats ( Democrazia Cristiana ), under the undisputed leadership of Alcide De Gasperi won a resounding victory with 48 percent of the vote ( their best result ever, and not repeated since ) while the FDP only received 31 percent of the votes.

The Liberal Movement's successor party, the Australian Democrats, have traditionally polled well in Sturt, highlighted by 13. 5 percent at their first showing in the 1977 election and 15 percent in the 1990 election, the best result by a minor party in Sturt.

Instead of blaming only one President ( or his advisors ) for contemporary policies, Bacevich sees both Republicans and Democrats as sharing responsibility for policies which may not be in the nation's best interest.

There were disagreements within the Democrats of the National Women's Political Caucus, and the Women's Movement in general, over how to best approach certain issues.

Democrats ' best hope for taking the seat was that Snowe would retire rather than run in 2006, but there was never any indication that Snowe seriously considered not running for re-election.