Much of its strength stems from the comfortable knowledge that every `` volunteer '' Democratic organization of any consequence belongs to the Aj.

To assist the new government, since February 2000 the United Nations has had the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo ( now called MONUSCO ), which currently has a strength of over 16, 000 peacekeepers in the country.

This increase in military strength coincided with a consolidated effort by various clan-based rebel groups in the country — most notably the Somali Salvation Democratic Front led by Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, a decorated war hero and former colonel in the army, the Isaaq-led Somali National Movement ( SNM ), and General Mohamed Farah Aidid's United Somali Congress — to destabilize the Barre regime, eventually succeeding in ousting it altogether in the ensuing Somali Civil War that broke out in 1991.

At various times the Socialist Party, the Farmer-Labor Party and the Populist Party for a few years had considerable local strength, and then faded away — although in Minnesota, the Farmer – Labor Party merged into the state's Democratic Party, which is now officially known as the Democratic – Farmer – Labor Party.

The Democratic Party merged its strength from the existing supporters of Jackson and their coalition with the supporters of Crawford ( the " Old Republicans ") and Vice-President Calhoun.

In 1975, the Democratic Senate majority, having achieved a net gain of four seats in the 1974 Senate elections to a strength of 61 ( with an additional Independent caucusing with them for a total of 62 ), reduced the necessary supermajority to three-fifths ( 60 out of 100 ).

By the 1870s the South was heavily Democratic in national and presidential elections, apart from pockets of Republican strength.

Bryan's strength was based on the traditional Democratic vote ( minus the middle class and the Germans ); he swept the old Populist strongholds in the west and South, and added the silverite states in the west, but did poorly in the industrial heartland.

A new Christian party that found its first strength in 1981 was the Christian Democratic Party ( initially known as the " Call to Australia " party ).

In the United States there have been various attempts to create Christian Democratic parties, similar to their European and Latin American counterparts, but efforts have generally run against the formidable strength of the existing bipartisan Republican / Democratic party system.

Despite its illegality due to the Anti-Socialist Laws of 1878, the Social Democratic Party of Germany's use of the limited universal male suffrage were " potent " new methods of struggle which demonstrated their growing strength and forced the dropping of the Anti-Socialist legislation in 1890, Engels argued.

Hague rose through the Democratic machinery of Hudson County, which drew much of its strength by providing newly arrived immigrants with the rudimentary social services.

They found it expedient to do business with Negroes and so-called carpetbaggers ; but often they returned to the Democratic party as it gained sufficient strength to be a factor in Southern politics.

After the Velvet Revolution in 1989 ČSL attempted to shed its compromised figures and policies of the past: this included a change of name in 1992 after the merger with the Christian Democratic Union movement ( which was a post-revolution attempt at more modern political Catholicism trying to emulate the German CDU, but lacking the strength of its traditional counterpart ).

In 1980, with the benefit of Ronald Reagan's North Carolina influence, East narrowly defeated incumbent Democratic Senator Robert Burren Morgan, largely on the strength of political advertising about Morgan's involvement with the turnover of the Panama Canal to the government of Panama.

In an e-mail to supporters, Nancy Keenan of NARAL Pro-Choice America stated that DFLA is growing in strength and a threat to the continued pro-choice stance of the Democratic Party.

A Democratic redistricting plan after the 1980 Census carved up the 4th District, with only about 15 % of its territory being retained and added to various territory from other districts ; Derwinski and fellow Republican congressman George M. O ' Brien were placed in the same district, and O ' Brien won the 1982 primary on the strength of having more of his previous district included in the new configuration.

Their vote divided the Democratic strength and secured the election of Zachary Taylor, the Whig nominee.

However, the coattails of Democratic Presidential nominee Bill Clinton and the general strength of the Democratic Party in California led to disappointing results for Republican candidates.

) At this point in Tennessee history, winning the Democratic nomination to statewide office was tantamount to winning the office, as the strength of the Republican Party was almost entirely confined to the eastern third of the state.

Going back over this ground and analyzing the composition of forces which have created the present scene is one of the tasks undertaken by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, in Santa Barbara.

The Hearst men say that if Hearst is nominated, he and his immediate friends will contribute to the Democratic National Committee the sum of $1,500,000.

The alternative to this is that if a conservative candidate is nominated the national committee will have to appeal to the trusts for their campaign funds, and in doing this will incur obligations which would make a Democratic victory absolutely fruitless.

The average Democratic politician, especially in the country districts, is hungry for the spoils of office.

And then there is St. Louis county, where the Democratic leadership has shown little appreciation of the need for sound zoning, of the important relationship between proper land use and economic growth.

Their meeting at San Francisco is nominally scheduled as a conference of the California Democratic Council directorate.

Biggest organizational problem, he adds, is setting up CDC units in rock-ribbed Democratic territory.

The new school superintendent is Harry Davis, a veteran agriculture teacher, who defeated Felix Bush, a school principal and chairman of the Miller County Democratic Executive Committee.

-- James P. Mitchell and Sen. Walter H. Jones R-Bergen, last night disagreed on the value of using as a campaign issue a remark by Richard J. Hughes, Democratic gubernatorial candidate, that the GOP is `` Campaigning on the carcass of Eisenhower Republicanism ''.

County Supervisor Weldon R. Sheets, who is a candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, today called for an end to paper ballots in those counties in the state which still use them.

These contend there is a serious question as to whether Mr. Wagner has the confidence of the Democratic rank and file in the city.

Their view is that last-minute changes the Mayor is proposing to make in the Democratic ticket only emphasize the weakness of his performance as Mayor.

Split badly during the recent presidential election into almost equally divided camps of party loyalists and independents, the Democratic party in Mississippi is currently a wreck.

Countries where ASL or a derivative of ASL is the national or a widespread language include Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana ( with BSL ), Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, the Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d ' Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kenya ( minority use ), Liberia, Madagascar ( minority use ), Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Philippines ( L2 use ), Puerto Rico, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Trinidad and Tobago, Togo, and Zimbabwe ( with ZSL ).

* 1964 – The Belgian Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The National Democratic Revolution ( NDR ) is described as a process through which the National Democratic Society ( NDS ) is achieved ; a society in which people are intellectually, socially, economically and politically empowered.

The present Mayor is Élio Manuel Delgado da Maia, elected by a coalition between the Social Democratic Party and the Democratic Social Centre.

After the 2011 state election, there is a coalition of the Social Democratic Party with the Christian Democratic Union, and for the first time ever, the Pirate Party won seats in a state parliament in Germany.

The Muslim Brotherhood and the National Democratic Party are considered the best organized political groups in Egypt.

The Cook County Democratic Organization is one of the best known political machines in American history.

Pendleton had a very Jacksonian commitment to the Democratic party as the best, perhaps the only, mechanism through which ordinary Americans could shape government policies.

He is a hard-looking man with a head of a bull, thick hair and moustache ; not so much Jewish but peasant features would best describe his face … He knows his audience and rules over them … Factory workers long at odds with the Social Democratic Party leaders, young intellectuals, teachers, doctors, lawyers, clerks who came to his room … meet Kun and Marxism.

This period is best remembered by the cross of gold speech that was made by William Jennings Bryan at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago on July 6, 1896, in which he expressed his hope that mankind would not be crucified upon a cross of gold.

He joined the Social Democratic Party shortly after its foundation in 1981, but left the party when David Owen resigned as the party's leader in 1987, describing Owen as " the best of them ".

A member of the Democratic Party, he is best known for his investigations into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy ( JFK ).

The White House was determined to unseat Wellstone, and felt Coleman, with his popularity in heavily Democratic St. Paul, offered the best chance of doing so.

He cited his frustrations with the Democratic Party and his belief that the Republican Party offered the best chance to continue his efforts to hold the line on taxes and grow jobs.

Roosevelt refused to endorse anybody other than Wallace, but preferred Byrnes as the best alternative to Wallace and sought to push him as the party's nominee for president if the party's delegates refused to renominate Wallace at the 1944 Democratic National Convention.

He is best remembered as one of the founders of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

The founding conference which established the British Socialist Party was called by the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ), a group best remembered to history by its pre-1908 moniker, the Social Democratic Federation ( SDF ).

It was during that race that she called herself " the best Republican in the Democratic Party.

Popular Democratic incumbent Neil Goldschmidt withdrew after Frohnmayer's campaign manager, Donna Zajonc, said "... you've got to believe that the best family will win " at a news conference, which was then reported by Jeff Mapes in The Oregonian.

All members supportive of this group later founded a new movement, Democratic Left, which aimed to unite the heterogeneous Italian left-wing, from direct descendents of the Italian Socialist Party to the euro-communist tendencies best represented in Italy by the Communist Refoundation Party.

However, in the 1840s and 1850s, ideology made its way into the heart of the political system despite the best efforts of the conservative Whig Party and the Democratic Party to keep it out.

Bowles is best known for his appointment in 2010 as the Democratic co-chair of President Barack Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with Alan K. Simpson.

The county Democratic leadership got together to nominate a new sheriff, and quickly settled on Broward as the best man for the job.

James Beauchamp Clark, best known as Champ Clark ( March 7, 1850 – March 2, 1921 ), was a prominent American politician in the Democratic Party from the 1890s until his death.

They saw the Democratic party as their best protection from the moralism of the pietists, and especially the threat of prohibition.

The terms that best render political opposites at the time were “ Oligarch ” and “ Democratic .” Politics as described by Lysias meant that “ no human being is by nature oligarchical or democratic, but whatever constitution brings advantage to an individual is the one he would like to see established .” This passage illustrates that whatever ideology a person chose to support is not based on their core beliefs or principles.

In a prediction market, binary options are used to find out a population's best estimate of an event occurring-for example, a price of 0. 65 on a binary option triggered by the Democratic candidate winning the next US Presidential election can be interpreted as an estimate of 65 % likelihood of him winning.