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Democratic and theorists
Conspiracy theorists claim that, during the final days leading up to the election, the Democratic Party believed it could secure a seat for their third candidate, Lai Chi-Keung.
The Japanese theorists, such as Saneshige Komaki, concerned with Mainland Asia, knew the geostrategic theory of Halford Mackinder, expressed in the book Democratic Ideas and Reality.
The Japanese theorists concerned with mainland Asia also knew of the geopolitical theory of Halford Mackinder, as expressed in the book Democratic Ideas and Reality.

Democratic and have
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 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.
I have supported the Democratic party in the last five campaigns.
Democratic Floor Leader Claude Kitchin would have no part of the measure.
This bodes heated contests in several districts where claims have already been staked out by Democratic hopefuls who don't see eye-to-eye with the Aj.
A wide-ranging, bipartisan force -- from Minnesota's Democratic Hubert Humphrey to Massachusetts' Republican Leverett Saltonstall -- was drawn up against a solid phalanx of Southern Democrats, who have traditionally used the filibuster to stop civil rights bills.
This distant territory was a Democratic stronghold, and acceptance of the post would have effectively ended his legal and political career in Illinois, so he declined and resumed his law practice.
Both the Barbados Labour Party and the Democratic Labour Party have formed the government in the elections since 1961.
Hundreds of thousands of Burundian refugees have at various times crossed to neighboring Rwanda, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The two dominant political parties in Canada have historically been the Liberal Party of Canada and Conservative Party of Canada ( or its predecessors ), and as of the 2011 election the social-democratic New Democratic Party ( NDP ) has risen to prominence.
in negotiating a peace agreement was signed in Tripoli in February 2007, between President Bozizé and the head of the Front démocratique du people centrafricain ( FDPC ) rebel movement ( who is also said to have close ties to Union of Democratic Forces for Unity ( UFDR ), the rebel group that seized several cities in northern C. A. R.
The Korowai tribe of south-eastern Papua could be one of the last surviving tribes in the world engaging in cannibalism, although there have been media reports of soldiers / rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Liberia eating body parts to intimidate child soldiers or captives.
In the United States the Democratic and the Republican Parties both have Central Committees ; these act as the leading body of those organizations at the national / administrative level, as well as local committees in a similar capacity within the local Democratic or Republican governments of individual counties and states.
Modern American politics has been described as a duopoly since the Republican and Democratic parties have dominated and framed policy debate as well as the public discourse on matters of national concern for about a century and a half.
The area now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo was populated as early as 80, 000 years ago, as shown by the 1988 discovery of the Semliki harpoon at Katanda, one of the oldest barbed harpoons ever found, and which is believed to have been used to catch giant river catfish.
Kemal Saiki, a United Nations spokesman, said that the Democratic Republic of the Congo does not " even have 2, 000 miles of roads " and that many people traveling around the country fly on aircraft.
All air carriers certified by the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been banned from operating at airports in the European Community by the European Commission because of inadequate safety standards.
Mexico, India, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Bangladesh, China, Sri Lanka, Laos, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Guinea, Ghana and the Côte d ' Ivoire, have lost large areas of their rainforest.
A suggestion to " do six shots for SEAL Team 6 " following every mention of Osama bin Laden at the 2012 Democratic National Convention necessitated a prominent disclaimer on the satire site that posted it, as the quantity of alcohol ingested would have been lethal.
On August 15, 2008 Chen resigned from the Democratic Progressive Party and apologized thus: " Today I have to say sorry to all of the DPP members and supporters.
Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for Democratic Socialism as I understand it.
Blaine hoped that he would have more support from Irish Americans than Republicans typically did ; while the Irish were mainly a Democratic constituency in the 19th century, Blaine's mother was Irish Catholic, and he had been supportive of the Irish National Land League while he was Secretary of State.
Since 1991, Lithuanian voters have shifted from right to left and back again, swinging between the Conservatives, led by Vytautas Landsbergis, and the ( formerly Communist ) Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania, led by president Algirdas Brazauskas.
Outbreaks of the disease have been observed in Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, and the Central African Republic, but it is believed that human infections also exist in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, and Senegal.

Democratic and identified
Thus, the word ' left ' in American political parlance may refer to ' liberalism ' and be identified with the Democratic Party, whereas in a country such as France these positions would be regarded as relatively more right-wing, and ' left ' is more likely to refer to ' socialist ' positions rather than ' liberal ' ones.
Although closely identified with the Republican Party for virtually his entire adult life, Dewey was a close friend of Democratic Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, and Dewey aided Humphrey in being named as the Democratic nominee for vice-president in 1964, advising Lyndon Johnson on ways to block efforts at the party convention by Kennedy loyalists to stampede Robert Kennedy onto the ticket as Johnson's running mate.
In addition, as the Democratic Party became identified with a pro-choice position on abortion and with nontraditional societal values, social conservatives joined the Republican Party in increasing numbers.
* Nationalist terrorism may also be identified with the left wing ( for example, Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, ETA, Shining Path ) or the right wing ( AUC, Sombra Negra )
Officials who identified most strongly with the nation itself, such as the Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ) and allied parties, saw no reason to adopt Hanyu Pinyin just because mainland China and the UN had.
On March 9, 1961, Anthony Anastasio, chief of the Brooklyn waterfront and its International Longshoremen's Association, marched in line with a picket group who identified themselves as “ The Federation of Italian-American Democratic Organizations .” In protest formation outside the American Broadcasting Company, ( ABC ) New York headquarters, they had come together to urge the public boycott of L & M, ( Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company ) products, and its Chesterfield King cigarettes, which sponsored " The Untouchables ".
The main representative of this faction is Pedro Passos Coelho, who claims to be neither left nor right but that " the real issues are between old and new ", though his opponents identified him as a liberal ( in the conservative-liberal or neo-liberal European senses ) since the 2008 party election, though he recalled the many meanings of liberal and recalled the Left liberalism of the United States Democratic Party, being even called " PSD's Obama " by supporters.
In May 2010 Sir Ketumile Masire led an African Union Election Observer Mission to the May 2010 Ethiopia Legislative Elections, and in October 2010 he co-led ( with fellow GLF Member Joe Clark ) a National Democratic Institute pre-election assessment mission in Nigeria, which identified a number of hurdles that could undermine a successful process surrounding the 2011 state and national polls.
The caucus is officially non-partisan, but in practice it has been closely identified with the Democratic Party, and tends to function as a lobbying group within the wider Democratic Party.
Murrah identified politically with the Democratic Party.
Several sources, including the Michigan Daily incorrectly identified Ms. Wilkins as an employee of the Republican National Committee, rather than the CRNC, eliciting an outcry from Democratic National Committee Chairman, Howard Dean.
Cho was a New Democratic Party candidate for election to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1988 federal election and was initially identified as a New Democrat when he joined Metro Council, however, he soon became an ally and supporter of then Metropolitan Toronto Chairman Alan Tonks and dropped his NDP affiliation.
After his return to the United States, Wise identified with the Democratic Party.
Although it is the most vocal supporter of social conservatism in Italy ( opposition to abortion, gay rights and euthanasia are some of its main concerns ) and can be easily connected with the Christian right, UDC is usually identified with the political centre in Italy, thanks to its Christian Democratic roots.
The Democratic Party is identified as the liberal party within the broader definition of liberalism thus putting it in contrast with most other parties listed here.
Struck by the inequalities in the southern society that confronted him at the time, he became identified as a young man with progressive Democratic politics.
Vladimir Lenin, who did not use the term ' National Bolshevism ', identified the Smenovekhovtsi as a tendency of the old Constitutional Democratic Party who saw Russian communism as just an evolution in the process of Russian aggrandisement.
Bill Clinton was the single Democratic politician of the 1990s most identified with the New Democrats ; his promise of welfare reform in the 1992 presidential campaign, and its subsequent enactment, epitomized the New Democrat position, as did his 1992 promise of a middle-class tax cut and his 1993 expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit for the working poor.
While in Congress, Robinson was often at odds with the Democratic leadership of Tip O ' Neill and Jim Wright, and identified closely with the " Boll Weevil " faction.
When, in the late 1840s, the New York Democratic Party split between the two factions of Hunkers and Barnburners, Seymour was among those identified with the more conservative Hunker faction, led by Marcy and Senator Daniel S. Dickinson.
After this split led to disaster in the elections of 1848, when the division between the Hunkers, who supported Lewis Cass, and the Barnburners, who supported their leader, former President Martin Van Buren, Seymour became identified with Marcy's faction within the Hunkers, the so-called " Softshell Hunkers ," who hoped to reunite with the Barnburners so as to be able to bring back Democratic dominance within the state.
Kornacki identified a number of " potential successors " to Baer, including Hackensack Police Chief and former Assemblyman Charles “ Ken ” Zisa, who had briefly mounted a challenge to Baer ’ s 2003 re-nomination before withdrawing it in what some have said was a deal brokered by Bergen County Democratic Organization Chairman Joe Ferriero ; Bergen County Freeholder Valerie Huttle ; Englewood Mayor Michael Wildes ; and Weinberg.

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