While the 1960s were the heyday of liberal activism in Berkeley, it remains one of the most overwhelmingly Democratic cities in the United States.

The other colonies chose the former but Guinea — under the leadership of Ahmed Sékou Touré whose Democratic Party of Guinea ( PDG ) had won 56 of 60 seats in 1957 territorial elections — voted overwhelmingly for independence.

Historically, Baltimore County leans Democratic, but not as overwhelmingly as Baltimore City.

Republicans had taken over the state governments in the South during Reconstruction, but were unpopular with the overwhelmingly Democratic white southerners, many of whom resented what they perceived as interference from the North and blamed the Republicans for the Civil War.

As shown on the Franklin County Supervisor of Elections site, registration is overwhelmingly Democratic.

Zapata County in most elections overwhelmingly supports the Democratic.

Webb County is overwhelmingly Democratic and has voted for that party's electors since 1912.

Part of the Solid South, the county used to vote overwhelmingly Democratic, giving 100 % of its vote to the party in 1924.

Despite being overwhelmingly Democratic in registration and the Democrats holding the commissioner majority and all row offices, Cambria is a swing county in statewide elections, with all four statewide winners carrying it in 2008.

Franklin County's voter registration is overwhelmingly Democratic.

The rapid development of Wyandanch in the 1950s as one of the largest African-American communities in Suffolk County transformed Wyandanch politically into a hamlet, which by 1960 voted overwhelmingly Democratic.

However, Franklin County, the metropolitan area's anchor county, is overwhelmingly Democratic.

She won overwhelmingly with more than 70 % of the votes, defeating the candidate of Democratic Action.

Some critics on the political left allege that AIPAC holds views that are politically conservative in their nature, while AIPAC's membership has also been described as " overwhelmingly Democratic " by conservatives.

On February 2, 2012, U. S. Senator Chuck Schumer, Chairman of the Rules Committee, promised hearings on this issue and that " overwhelmingly " the bulk of contributions are going to support Republican candidates, owing in part to Democratic positions against continuing tax breaks to the wealthy.

With the legislature overwhelmingly dominated by Democrats, all of whom had been required to sign a Democratic loyalty oath, Maddox became governor.

In addition, the Democratic candidates for Council seats, Gay Lee and Cedric Brown, were also overwhelmingly elected.

This allowed him to significantly influence the makeup of the commission in this overwhelmingly Democratic city.

From 1880 to 1960 the Deep South overwhelmingly supported the Democratic Party as a legacy of the rival Republican Party's record during Reconstruction.

In the 2008 Democratic primary, Watson's district went overwhelmingly for Illinois Senator Barack Obama by a margin of 61-29.

Jefferson's loss evoked a sensation because of the overwhelmingly Democratic nature of the district ; with a Cook Partisan Voting Index of D + 28, it is the third-most Democratic district in the South.

Yet they have accepted most of the extant `` welfare state '' provisions for health, security, and the regulation of economic affairs, and they overwhelmingly approve of the traditional `` liberalism '' of the Bill of Rights.

Free state senators voted 14 to 12 in favor while slave state senators overwhelmingly supported the bill 23 to 2.

A low entropy initial condition will, with overwhelmingly high probability, evolve into a higher entropy state: behavior consistent with the second law of thermodynamics is typical.

It can also be shown that a distribution of particles that is not distributed according to the Born rule ( that is, a distribution ' out of quantum equilibrium ') and evolving under the de Broglie-Bohm dynamics is overwhelmingly likely to evolve dynamically into a state distributed as.

For the time being, moderates who hoped to find a way of compromise and to repress the underlying issue of slavery itself – its toleration or non-toleration by a great free Christian state – were overwhelmingly in the majority.

When the idea was first formally proposed to the state ’ s legislators, all of whom were men, it was overwhelmingly resisted.

In Vermont, the day before the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that damaged Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, the NRC approved a 20-year extension for the license of Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, although the Vermont state legislature voted overwhelmingly to deny an extension.

Home rule was vehemently opposed by many Irish Protestants, the Irish Unionist Party and Ulster's Orange Order, who feared domination in an overwhelmingly Catholic state.

The party overwhelmingly carried the state in the ensuing election and, for the first time, Stephens returned to Congress no longer a Whig.

* On the establishment of Israel: " This conflict arose because Zionists planned to establish a state in a country overwhelmingly Arab in population, in land-ownership, in language and in culture.

" An American example was the change in the voting patterns among white Southerners, who from the 1870s to 1962 had overwhelmingly voted at the national and state levels for Democratic ( what was called the " Solid South ").

He was overwhelmingly re-elected to a second term in 1990, carrying approximately two-thirds of the vote over the essentially token candidacy of the Republican nominee, first-term state representative Dwight Henry.

In November 2006, state voters reviewed the law passed by the legislature, and they overwhelmingly defeated the state's ban on abortions without exceptions, 55. 57 percent to 44. 43 percent.

Halter went on to lose, but only by 4 % in a state that went overwhelmingly to John McCain in the 2008 presidential election.

Thanks to the efforts of Oregon Populist Party State Representative William S. U ' Ren and his Direct Legislation League, voters in Oregon overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure in 1902 that created the initiative and referendum processes for citizens to directly introduce or approve proposed laws or amendments to the state constitution, making Oregon the first state to adopt such a system.

However, the theme of subsidized private schools in France, which are overwhelmingly Catholic but whose teachers draw pay from the state, remains a sensitive issue in French politics.

Note, however, that if you were looking at an isolated system which had reached equilibrium long in the past, so that any departures from equilibrium were the result of random fluctuations, then the backwards prediction would be just as accurate as the forward one, because if you happen to see the system in a nonequilibrium state it is overwhelmingly likely that you are looking at the minimum-entropy point of the random fluctuation ( if it were truly random, there's no reason to expect it to continue to drop to even lower values of entropy, or to expect it had dropped to even lower levels earlier ), meaning that entropy was probably higher in both the past and the future of that state.

In 2006, there was a campaign to build a new $ 600 million facility in downtown Sacramento, which was to be funded by a quarter cent sales tax increase over 15 years ; voters overwhelmingly rejected ballot measures Q and R, leading to the NBA publicly calling for a new arena to be built at another well-known Sacramento facility, Cal Expo, the site of California's state fair.

With the Senate being overwhelmingly Republican, there was speculation that perhaps the state senate would not accept some of his nominees in favor of allowing Governor-elect John Kasich to make nominations.

He joined Georgia Whigs Alexander Stephens and Robert Toombs in a statewide campaign to elect delegates to a state convention that overwhelmingly affirmed, in the Georgia Platform, that the state accepted the Compromise as the final resolution to the outstanding slavery issues.