Calling the Democrats the `` party that lives, breathes and thinks for the good of the people '', Hughes asked, `` a representative Democratic vote in the primary for a springboard toward victory in November ''.

Some Democratic district and county leaders are reported trying to induce State Controller Arthur Levitt of Brooklyn to oppose Mr. Wagner for the Mayoral nomination in the Sept. 7 Democratic primary.

In an apparent effort to head off such a rival primary slate, Mr. Wagner talked by telephone yesterday with Representative Charles A. Buckley, the Bronx Democratic leader, and with Joseph T. Sharkey, the Brooklyn Democratic leader.

Vice President Spiro Agnew urged Capp to run in the Democratic Party Massachusetts primary in 1970 against Ted Kennedy, but Capp ultimately declined.

Monroe Schwarzlose of Kingsland in Cleveland County, polled 31 % of the vote against Clinton in the Democratic gubernatorial primary of 1980.

During the 2008 Democratic presidential primary campaign, Clinton vigorously advocated on behalf of his wife, Hillary Clinton.

A third and more radical group founded the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party or RSDLP in 1898 ; this party was the primary exponent of Marxism in Russia.

Reno ran for Governor of Florida in 2002, but lost in the Democratic primary to Bill McBride 44 % to 44. 4 %.

Because Marxism-Leninism has historically only been the state ideology of countries who were economically undeveloped prior to socialist revolution ( or whose economies were nearly obliterated by war, such as the German Democratic Republic ), the primary goal before achieving full communism was the development of socialism in itself.

Jimmy Carter to that year's Democratic National Convention. On October 23, 1979, the first primary of a party affiliated to the Democratic National Committee was held in Puerto Rico.

As a result of that effort, the Puerto Rico Legislature approved a law regulating presidential primaries in 1979, the first of which was held in 1980, with George H. W. Bush winning the Republican primary and President Carter beating Senator Edward " Ted " Kennedy in a hard-fought Democratic primary.

In the first internal primary of a National political party, the new slate of statehooders, headed by Franklin Delano López took control of the local Democratic party chapter.

Being the last big primary before the last two states voted on June 3, Puerto Rico's Democratic presidential primary attracted historic levels of national media coverage.

U. S. Virgin Islands residents, however, are able to vote in presidential primary elections for delegates to the Democratic National Convention and the Republican National Convention.

** U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson edges out antiwar candidate Eugene J. McCarthy in the New Hampshire Democratic primary, a vote which highlights the deep divisions in the country, and the party, over Vietnam.

* June 7 – U. S. Senator John F. Kennedy wins the California Democratic primary.

** The New Hampshire primary is won by Paul Tsongas on the Democratic side ; for the Republicans, Pat Buchanan has a surprisingly strong showing ( 37 %) against incumbent president George H. W. Bush.

The bipartisan primary / caucus calendar, designed by Democrats to help solidify their own nominee early, backfires when none of the 6 competing candidates are able to break out of the pack in the day's Democratic contests.

* April 5 – Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis wins the Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary.

* February 22 – In Chicago's Democratic primary, Mayor Martin H. Kennelly loses to the head of the Cook County Democratic Party, Richard J. Daley, 364, 839 to 264, 77.

In 1975, Giuliani switched his party registration from Democratic to Independent as he was recruited to Washington, D. C. during the Ford administration, where he was named Associate Deputy Attorney General and chief of staff to Deputy Attorney General Harold " Ace " Tyler.

However, her attempt to block the election of Richard M. Daley, the son of her late mentor, to the prominent position of Cook County States ' Attorney ( chief local prosecutor ) in 1980 failed as Daley defeated Byrne's candidate, 14th Ward Alderman Ed Burke in the Democratic Primary and GOP incumbent Bernard Carey in the general election.

In January 1972, G. Gordon Liddy, general counsel to the Committee for the Re-Election of the President ( CRP ), presented a campaign intelligence plan to CRP's Acting Chairman Jeb Stuart Magruder, Attorney General John Mitchell, and Presidential Counsel John Dean, that involved extensive illegal activities against the Democratic Party.

Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy suggested to Glenn and his wife in December 1962 that he should run against incumbent United States Senator Stephen M. Young of Ohio in the 1964 Democratic primary election.

Important members of the party have included Minneapolis mayor Hubert H. Humphrey and Minnesota Attorney General Walter Mondale, who each went on to be United States Senators, Vice Presidents of the United States, and unsuccessful Democratic nominees for president, Humphrey in 1968 and Mondale in 1984 ; Eugene McCarthy, a Senator who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968 as an anti-Vietnam War candidate ; and Paul Wellstone, a Senator from 1991 – 2002 who became an icon of populist progressivism.

Will Wilson, a former conservative Democratic attorney general of Texas who switched to the Republican Party to support Nixon, was named United States Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division.

All five statewide winners carried it in November 2004 and all four statewide Democratic candidates carried it in November 2008, with its DA John Morganelli doing well there despite losing statewide to incumbent Attorney General Tom Corbett.

* Prosecuting Attorney: Kym L. Worthy ( Democratic )

Town Alderman, 1904, Louisiana State Senator 1916-1920, District Attorney 1920-1924, Chairman of the Louisiana State Democratic Central Committee, four-time delegate to the Democratic National Convention 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, Democratic National Convention Rules Committee Member 1945, Louisiana Public Service Commissioner 1928-1936 ( PSC chairman 1932-1936 ), Federal Prosecutor for the Western District of Louisiana 1937-1941, Chairman of the Ouachita Valley Farmers Association, Law partner of Huey Long and Earl Long and Robert O ' Neal.

* Karen Burstein, politician and former judge who was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for New York State Attorney General in 1994.

Brown previously served as a member of the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees ( 1969 – 1971 ), Secretary of State of California ( 1971 – 1975 ), chairman of the California Democratic Party ( 1989 – 1991 ), Mayor of Oakland ( 1999 – 2007 ) and Attorney General of California ( 2007 – 2011 ).

Among the reasons why he did not become the candidate were rivals for the nomination, his obvious political inexperience, and the strong support he gave for the anti-Communist strategy of Democratic Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer to defeat radical subversion.

Rendell was elected District Attorney of Philadelphia in 1977, defeating the incumbent Democratic DA, Emmett Fitzpatrick, in the primary election.

On 28 March 2003, Judicial Watch filed a complaint to the Office of Government Ethics, the Office of the Defense Department Inspector General, the Office of the Homeland Security Inspector General, United States Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller in the matter of Former Defense Policy Board Chairman Richard N. Perle, Former President Bill Clinton, Former Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe and Global Crossing.

He is a member of the Democratic Party and former Attorney General of Arkansas.

He was elected the state Attorney General in 1998 and was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 2000.

He held his position because he was a Democratic party loyalist and close to both the President and the Attorney General.

She defeated in the Democratic primary two former governors, James E. Folsom and John Patterson, Attorney General Richmond Flowers, Sr., and former U. S. Representative Carl Elliott.

In 1960, Faubus defeated Attorney General Bruce Bennett in the Democratic gubernatorial primary for and then crushed the Republican choice, Henry M. Britt, an attorney from Hot Springs, to secure reelection.

In 2010, Chong and Cyril Wecht appeared at a Democratic Party fundraiser in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to oppose the United States Attorney who prosecuted him, Mary Beth Buchanan, who was running for the United States House of Representatives as a Republican.

Prior to the 2006 midterm election Domenici called and pressured then-United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico David Iglesias to speed up indictments in a federal corruption investigation that involved at least one former Democratic state senator.