Other speakers for the fund-raising dinner include Reps. Edith Green and Al Ullman, Labor Commissioner Norman Nilsen and Mayor Terry Schrunk, all Democrats.

After the 2000 elections produced a 50-50 partisan split in the Senate, Vice President Al Gore's tie-breaking vote gave the Democrats the majority from January 3 to January 20, 2001, when George W. Bush took office and Vice President Dick Cheney's tie-breaking vote gave the Republicans the majority once again.

Some argued that Ralph Nader was drawing support from left leaning Democrats that would otherwise vote for Al Gore.

* ( 1920 was a landslide election year for the Republicans under President Warren G. Harding, but in the statewide elections of 1922, without such a national race, the New York City Democrats Al Smith and Royal Copeland easily unseated Republican Governor Nathan L. Miller and Republican U. S. Senator William M.

Democrat Al Gore was still Vice President giving the Democrats a slim majority for the 17 days between the January 3 swearing-in of the new Congress and the January 20 inauguration of Republican Vice President Dick Cheney.

Pallbearers included Oregon Congressman Al Ullman and three candidates for Congress, Democrats Les AuCoin, Jim Weaver, and Morse's old rival, Robert B. Duncan, who was running for a seat vacated by Congresswoman Edith Green.

* November 5, 1996: Re-election of President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore ; Democrats gained 8 seats in House ; Republicans gained 2 seats in Senate.

He said that he voted for Democrats Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, but also Republicans Ronald Reagan and George H. W.

It is a region with one of the highest levels of support for the Democratic Party in the United States, with the majority of voters in every state voting for the Democrats in the 1992, 1996, 2004, and 2008 Presidential elections, and every state but New Hampshire voting for Al Gore in 2000.

* Corruption is a Crime-Site by the Liberal Democrats on Al Yamamah and other arms deals

She criticized Democrats during the 2008 general election campaign, particularly presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama and Minnesota U. S. senatorial candidate ( and fellow SNL alumnus ) Al Franken.

The League's alliance of conservative Democrats " in whom the rank and file long ago had lost confidence " like Al Smith with " conservative Republicans, among whom were lawyers for great corporations " helped President Roosevelt's backers to present him as a man independent of traditional politicians and political alliances.

Democrats won by large margins in the region in every presidential election from 1876 to 1948 except for 1928, when candidate Al Smith, a Catholic and a New Yorker, ran on the Democratic ticket ; even in that election, the divided South provided Smith with nearly three-fourths of his electoral votes.

In 1992 and 1996, when the Democratic ticket consisted of two Southerners, ( Bill Clinton and Al Gore ), the Democrats and Republicans split the region.

Norris supported Democrats Al Smith in 1928 and Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932.

Its original leaders, Toby Hyde and Al Davidson, raised funds and formed committees, and pushed for state-level recognition of Democrats Abroad.

Catts was one of the Democrats who worked against Presidential nominee Al Smith due to his religion.

This resulted in the Democrats winning control of the Senate for only 17 days, since Al Gore was still Vice President and President of the Senate at the beginning of the new term, on January 3, 2001.

The Republicans picked-up open seats in Ohio and Kentucky and defeated incumbent Senator Carol Mosley-Braun ( D-IL ), but these were cancelled out by the Democrats ' gain of an open seat in Indiana and defeats of Senators Al D ' Amato ( R-NY ) and Lauch Faircloth ( R-NC ).

The 1996 elections to the United States Senate coincided with the 1996 presidential election, in which Democrats Bill Clinton and Al Gore were reelected President and Vice President of the United States, respectively.

Her earlier political history shows support for the Democrats during the 1980s, with recorded contributions to Democratic candidates and causes, including the Democratic National Committee, the Senate campaign of Lloyd Bentsen and the 1988 presidential campaign of Al Gore, totaling $ 3, 000.

The United States House of Representatives elections in 1992 coincided with the 1992 presidential election, in which Democrats Bill Clinton and Al Gore were elected as President and Vice President, respectively, defeating Republican incumbent President George H. W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle.

After 1980, the Republicans became a mostly right-wing party, with conservative leaders such as Newt Gingrich, Trent Lott, and Tom DeLay, while the Democrats, while keeping their left wing intact with such Senators as Ted Kennedy, Christopher Dodd, and Paul Sarbanes, grew a substantial moderate wing in the 1990s in place of their old conservative wing, with leaders such as Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Evan Bayh.

Except for 1928, when Catholic candidate Al Smith ran on the Democratic ticket, Democrats won heavily in the South in every Presidential election from 1876 until 1964 ( and even in 1928, the divided South provided most of Smith's electoral votes ).

In a tense, closed-door session with Judge Smith, Rayburn attempted to work out a compromise: to add three new members to the Rules Committee ( two Democrats, including one Southerner, and one Republican ).

With that possibility in mind, Arkansas' Wilbur Mills deliberately delayed calling a meeting of the Committee on Committees, and coolheaded Democrats sought to bring Rayburn and Smith together again to work out some sort of face-saving compromise.

Here, he met his close friend, John Smith ( who would later become leader of the Labour Party ), Sir Menzies Campbell ( who would later become leader of the Liberal Democrats ) and Lord Irvine of Lairg ( who would serve as Lord Chancellor in the same cabinet as Dewar ) through the Dialectic Society.

For example, Tony Blair met Leader of the Opposition Iain Duncan Smith and Leader of the Liberal Democrats Charles Kennedy on privy council terms to discuss the evidence for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

This came about when Democrats attempted to block the inclusion of a newly elected Republican from West Virginia, Charles Brooks Smith.

Democrats finally dropped their objections on January 31, and Smith was seated on February 3 by a vote of 166 – 0.

In more recent times, the University boasts one of Europe's largest collections of life scientists, as well as having been the training ground of numerous politicians, including former First Minister Donald Dewar, fomer leader of the Liberal Democrats and current Rector of the University Charles Kennedy, Liam Fox, John Smith, Sir Menzies Campbell and current Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

While working with the Young Democrats, Washington met Mary Ella Smith.

The secret presidential investigating commission headed by conservative Democrats William Farrar Smith and James T. Brady in early 1865 devoted considerable effort to trying to connect Banks with vice and irregular trading permits in the New Orleans area.

Historians speculate that Smith was trying to embarrass northern Democrats who opposed civil rights for women because the clause was opposed by labor unions.

Speakers included Voter March founder Lou Posner, singer songwriter Patti Smith, former Students for a Democratic Society President professor Todd Gitlin, author / professor Mark Crispin Miller, and Democrats. com founder Bob Fertik.

In an aside that illustrates the complexities of Southern political allegiances during the relevant period, Portis's narrator Mattie Ross says: " brought a good deal of misery to the land in the Panic of ’ 93 but I am not ashamed to own that my family supported him and has stayed with the Democrats right on through, up to and including Governor Alfred Smith, and not only because of Joe Robinson.

* Iain Smith profile at the site of Scottish Liberal Democrats

Harkin has served in the Senate longer than any Democrat in Iowa's history, and only Neal Smith has served in Congress longer among Iowa Democrats.

That year, the Democrats had selected Alfred Smith as their Presidential nominee to challenge the Republican Herbert Hoover.

" As of July 2009, the House New Democrats are chaired by Representative Joseph Crowley ( New York ), with Vice-Chairs Representatives Melissa Bean ( Illinois ), Ron Kind ( Wisconsin ), Allyson Schwartz ( Pennsylvania ) and Adam Smith ( Washington ), who also serves as chair of the group's political action committee.

Smith is one of the most prominent Democrats in North Carolina politics.

In 2006, Smith became the spokesperson for Devout Democrats, an inter-faith, grassroots political action committee designed to convince religious Americans to vote for Democrats.

Despite being defended by well-known attorneys such as Nathaniel Boyden and William Nathan Harrell Smith, he was convicted on six of the eight charges against him by the Democrats of the North Carolina Senate in straight party-line votes on March 22, 1871.

Less than a month before the November 2004 election, Smith wrote an op-ed for the Concord Monitor in which he denounced the lack of Republican outrage over phone jamming on Election Day 2002, in which Republican operatives had jammed phone banks used by the Democrats to contact Democratic voters and get them to the polls.

Over two hundred of the union's distinguished alumni turned out for the event, including: former leader of the Liberal Democrats Charles Kennedy ; former Conservative Minister of Health Gerald Malone ; Channel Four Business Correspondent Sarah Smith ; Labour peers Lord James Gordon and Baroness Smith, wife of former Leader of the Opposition and friend of the union, John Smith ; Lord Justice Clerk Lord Gill ; football commentator Archie Macpherson and comedian Len Murray.