Atchison and Missouri's other Senator, the venerable Thomas Hart Benton, became rivals and finally enemies, though both were Democrats.

When it finally was allowed to run candidates, the Social Democrats were stronger than ever.

The gag was finally rescinded December 3, 1844, by a vote of 108-80, all the Northern and 4 Southern Whigs voting for repeal, along with 78 % of the Northern Democrats.

When the Whig Party collapsed, Colfax briefly considered the Know-Nothing Party, but finally joined the new Republican Party that was formed as a fusion of northern Whigs, Anti-Nebraska Act Democrats, Know Nothings, and Free Soilers.

Congress, then dominated by Democrats, finally seated his opponents.

With the support of fellow councillors Giuseppe Motta and Gustave Ador, Calonder finally succeeded in passing the bill to join the League of Nations against strong opposition by politicians from German speaking rural and conservative cantons, but also against the majority of Social Democrats.

The coalition finally fell apart as a result of disputes between the Social Democrats and German People's Party over budgetary issues as a result of the onset of the Great Depression.

The Anschluss was initially enthusiastically greeted by many Social Democrats, such as the ex-chancellor Karl Renner who pledged to vote “ yes ” in a referendum on the Anschluss (“ Ich stimme mit ‘ Ja ’”) and finally realise the old dream of a union with Germany.

In 1988 the Liberal Party joined with the Social Democratic Party finally to produce the new party of ( initially ) the Social and Liberal Democrats.

In 2005 the party finally merged with the Sammarinese Socialist Party ( PSS ) to form the Party of Socialists and Democrats ( PSD ).

On 12 February 1990 it joined the Association of Free Democrats which finally merged into the Free Democratic Party in 11 August 1990.

Prohibition debates and referendums heated up politics in most states over a period of decades, as national prohibition was finally passed in 1919 ( and repealed in 1933 ), serving as a major issue between the wet Democrats and the dry GOP.

The Democrats were finally able to nominate Henderson lawyer Lazarus W. Powell.

Hollande visited Berlin, Germany, in December 2011 for the Social Democrats Federal Party Congress, at which he met Sigmar Gabriel, Peer Steinbrück, Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Martin Schulz ; he also travelled to Belgium before the United Kingdom in February 2012, where he met with Opposition Leader Ed Miliband ; and finally Tunisia in May 2012.

Kernot finally achieved her ambition to become the Democrats ' Senate leader after the 1993 election.

In March the Association of Free Democrats absorbed the National Democratic Party of Germany ( Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands ), and finally in August it merged into present-day ⇒ Free Democratic Party

Others, mostly affiliated to SR, including Giorgio Bogi, Stefano Passigli, Giuseppe Ayala, Andrea Manzella and Adolfo Battaglia, approached with the Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS ) and finally merged into the Democrats of the Left ( DS ) in 1998.

Others, notably including Enzo Bianco and Antonio Maccanico, joined Democratic Union ( UD ), The Democrats ( Dem ) and finally Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy ( DL ).

In late 1981, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Popular Democratic candidate in the 35th District, and with the Popular Democrats finally filling in the two vacancies they had, that Party gained control of the House, with a mayority of 26.

Major causes of friction inside the coalition were, the 2006 pardon Act ( criticised by the right and by the IDV party ), a draft bill to establish civil unions ( vetoed by Christian Democrats ), Italy's continued involvement in Afghanistan ( strongly opposed by left-wing parties ), and finally the much publicized house-arrest of Clemente Mastella's wife ( then a prominent politician at the regional level ) over a corruption scandal.

In the beginning they were the leading figures of the Bucktails faction of the Democratic-Republican Party, later the Jacksonian Democrats and finally became the Hunkers faction of the Democratic Party.

However, the split of the National Liberals from the Liberals apparently offered a compromise which suited the voters, and St Ives was thereafter a safe seat for that party, and later for the Conservatives when the National Liberals finally merged with them in the 1960s, until the formation of the Liberal Democrats re-invigorated the competition in the 1990s.

On the 29th ballot, taken near the end of February 1908, Bradley finally secured a majority after four Democrats crossed party lines to vote for him.

He served from 1855 through 1873, during which time he claimed party affiliations with the Democrats, the Republicans, the Liberal Republicans, and finally the Democrats again.

But in a failed effort to defeat Harlan by uniting Democrats and nationalist Whigs behind a single candidate, Dodge dropped out after the fourth ballot.

" The influence of the Farmers ' Alliance quickly disintegrated, and the state's Democrats dropped Buchanan in favor of state Supreme Court chief justice Peter Turney in the 1892 election.

Although Roosevelt was re-elected, support for his administration had dropped somewhat after eight years, and the Republican opposition gained three seats from the Democrats.

If he were dropped from the 2002 Democratic ticket, White House advisors feared that he still might launch a third-party bid, which would draw Independents and conservative Democrats voters away from President Bartlet ( 3. 17 ).

Lincoln and Johnson ran together under the banner of the National Union Party, which brought together Republicans ( with the exception of some hard-line abolitionist Radical Republicans who backed John C. Frémont, who eventually dropped out of the race after brokering a deal with Lincoln ) and the War Democrats ( the minority of Democrats who backed Lincoln's prosecution of the war, as opposed to the Peace Democrats, or Copperheads, who favored a negotiated settlement with the Confederates ).

Martin O ' Malley, Mayor of Baltimore City, who was expected to run for governor almost as soon as the 2002 election was over, was initially expected to be a shoo-in for the Democratic nomination, but he was challenged by Montgomery County Executive Doug Duncan, who then unexpectedly dropped out of the race, citing a recent diagnosis of clinical depression, saving Democrats from a costly and potentially divisive primary.

The Democrats vote has dropped sharply in recent years, they gained only 2. 26 percent in the 2004 election.

Howard reluctantly dropped the term from the preamble, after the Australian Democrats refused to allow it to be passed by the Senate where they held the balance of power.

The area was traditionally very liberal, and the removal dropped the 11th District from 43 % to 36 % registered Democrats, creating difficulties for Shuler.

Registered Democrats in New York City this year have the opportunity to elect their party's candidates for Mayor and other municipal posts and the men who will run their party organization.

He expected Democrats to do their duty when it had been patiently pointed out to them.

In 1949 the Dixiecrats escaped unscathed after their 1948 rebellion against Harry Truman, and in 1957, after Congressman Adam Clayton Powell campaigned for Dwight Eisenhower in 1956, his fellow Democrats did not touch his committee assignments, although they did strip him temporarily of his patronage.

Lincoln spent the next 100 days preparing the army and the nation for emancipation, while Democrats rallied their voters in the 1862 offyear elections by warning of the threat freed slaves posed to northern whites.

" As southern Senators began to express their intent to resign their seats, Johnson reminded Sen. Jefferson Davis, the Confederacy's future leader, that if his coalition would only hold to their seats, the Democrats would control the Congress, and thus better defend the South's interests.

As a leading War Democrat and pro-Union southerner, Johnson was an ideal candidate for the Republicans in the national election of 1864, as they sought to enlarge their base to include War Democrats ; they even changed the party name to the National Union Party to reflect this expansion.

When Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson addressed Christian themes at the Republican National Convention – with Bush criticizing Democrats for omitting God from their platform – many moderates were alienated.

Many Democrats who had supported Ronald Reagan and Bush in previous elections switched their support to Clinton.

All of the 3 main parties saw their total votes fall, with Labour's total vote dropping by 2. 8 million on 1997, the Conservatives 1. 3 million, and the Liberal Democrats 428, 000.

He sought election to another term, but the Democrats in the Missouri legislature were split between him and Benton, while the Whig minority put forward their own man.

A deal was agreed with the Scottish Liberal Democrats to form a coalition, with Dewar agreeing to their demand for the abolition of up-front tuition fees for university students.

until in early March 2009 congressional Democrats were moving to close down the program and remove children from their voucher-funded school places at the end of the 09 / 10 school year under the $ 410 billion Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009 which, as of March 7 had passed the House and was pending in the Senate.

The British and Danish Conservatives tried to maintain a group of their own called the European Democrats ( ED ), but lack of support and the problems inherent in maintaining a small group forced ED's collapse in the 1990s, and its members crossed the floor to join the EPP Group.

The Social Democrats were outlawed, and their leaders were imprisoned or fled abroad.

As white Democrats regained power in the state legislatures of the South after Reconstruction, they began to impose new laws that disfranchised blacks and to create labor and criminal laws limiting their freedom.

In the October 1917 elections, the Social Democrats lost their absolute majority, which radicalized the labour movement and decreased support for relying on parliamentary means of achieving its aims.

The Social Democrats had aimed to increase independence of the Finns since the spring of 1917, but now they could not use it for the direct political benefit of their party, and had either to adjust to the right's dominance or try to change everything via a revolution.

On some of the most damaging correspondence, Blaine had written " Burn this letter ," giving Democrats the last line to their rallying cry: " Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine, the continental liar from the state of Maine, ' Burn this letter!

Even though many repeat the cliché that Italy had over fifty governments in its first fifty years of democracy to stigmatise its alleged political instability, Italy's main political problem was actually the opposite: in all the course of the so-called First Republic, the government was in the hands of the Christian Democrats and their allies, since it was unacceptable for a communist party to rule a western country during the Cold war.

In 1838, the political situation in Tennessee — where, in 1835, Democrats had lost the governorship for the first time in their party's history — persuaded Polk to return to help the party at home.

This worked to the advantage of the Social Democrats who – through heavy Worker membership – achieved their first small foothold in public administration.

The memorial was greeted with widespread disapproval among the working classes and did not prevent their increasing support for the Social Democrats.