The Hearst men say that if Hearst is nominated, he and his immediate friends will contribute to the Democratic National Committee the sum of $1,500,000.

In his CDC work, Carvey has the close-in support and advice of one of California's shrewdest political strategists: former Democratic National Committeeman Paul Ziffren, who backed him over a Northland candidate espoused by Atty. Gen. Stanley Mosk.

Ter-Petrosyan had been elected head of government in 1990, when the National Democratic Union party defeated the Armenian Communist Party.

His failure to make the National Union brand a genuine party made Johnson an independent during his presidency, though he was supported by Democrats and later rejoined the party briefly as a Democratic Senator from Tennessee in 1875 until his death that year.

In 1860, the Tennessee delegation nominated Johnson for president at the Democratic National Convention, and Johnson tentatively offered himself as a Vice-President on the Douglas ticket as a back up plan.

* 1968 – Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention.

* 1969 – The " Chicago Eight " plead not guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.

DiFranco went on to perform at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

The ANC deems itself as a force of national liberation in the post-apartheid era ; it officially defines its agenda as the National Democratic Revolution.

The National Democratic Revolution ( NDR ) is described as a process through which the National Democratic Society ( NDS ) is achieved ; a society in which people are intellectually, socially, economically and politically empowered.

He gave the Democratic response to President Reagan's 1985 State of the Union Address and served as Chair of the National Governors Association from 1986 to 1987, bringing him to an audience beyond Arkansas.

He gave the nationally televised opening night address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention, but his speech, which was 33 minutes long and twice as long as it was expected to be, was criticized for being too long and poorly delivered.

Altogether, Clinton has spoken at the last six Democratic National Conventions, dating to 1988.

Fears were allayed August 27, 2008, when Clinton enthusiastically endorsed Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, saying that all his experience as president assures him that Obama is " ready to lead ".

At the 2012 Democratic National Convention, Clinton gave a widely praised speech nominating Barack Obama.

Three teams with a total of 44 candidates contested the general election held on November 20, 1996: the governing National Team, Team Cayman and the Democratic Alliance Group.

The current Senate composition is as follows: 20 seats are held by the Coalition of Parties for Democracy ( CPD ): Six Christian Democrats ( PDC ), eight Socialists ( PS ), three Party for Democracy ( PPD ) and three Social Democrat Radical Party ( PRSD ); 17 by the Alliance for Chile ( APC ): nine Independent Democratic Union ( UDI ) and eight National Renewal ( RN ); and one independent leaning right.

The current lower house — the Chamber of Deputies — contains 65 members of the governing coalition: 21 Christian Democrats ( PDC ), 15 Socialists ( PS ), 22 Party for Democracy ( PPD ) and seven Social Democrat Radical Party ( PRSD ); 54 from the center-right Alliance for Chile ( APC ): 34 Independent Democratic Union ( UDI ) and 20 National Renewal ( RN ); and 1 from the Independent Regional Force ( FRI ) coalition: 1 Regionalist Action Party of Chile ( PAR ).

FBI records show that 85 % of COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed " subversive ," including communist and socialist organizations ; organizations and individuals associated with the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and others associated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Congress of Racial Equality and other civil rights organizations ; black nationalist groups ; the American Indian Movement ; a broad range of organizations labeled " New Left ", including Students for a Democratic Society and the Weathermen ; almost all groups protesting the Vietnam War, as well as individual student demonstrators with no group affiliation ; the National Lawyers Guild ; organizations and individuals associated with the women's rights movement ; nationalist groups such as those seeking independence for Puerto Rico, United Ireland, and Cuban exile movements including Orlando Bosch's Cuban Power and the Cuban Nationalist Movement ; and additional notable Americans — even Albert Einstein, who was a member of several civil rights groups, came under FBI surveillance during the years just prior to COINTELPRO's official inauguration .< ref >

Other conservative parties are the National Party of Australia, a sister party of the Liberals, Family First Party, Democratic Labor Party, Shooters Party and the Katter's Australian Party The second largest party in the country, the Australian Labor Party's dominant faction is Labor Right, a socially conservative element.

Two years later, the city hosted the tumultuous 1968 Democratic National Convention, which featured physical confrontations both inside and outside the convention hall, including full-scale riots, or in some cases police riots, in city streets.

At the Democratic Convention, when he came in second on the first ballot and faded from there, it became clear that he was too unpopular to run.

In 1968, Hall was 23 years old and carefully monitored the political situation in America, like the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

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.

This video was played several times at the 1984 Democratic National Convention.

* 1970 – The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

* 1896 – William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.

) The annexation of Texas, which was at the forefront during the Democratic Convention, again dominated the campaign.

The 1832 Democratic National Convention, the party's first and held in May, had nominated him for vice-president on the Jackson ticket, despite the strong opposition to him which existed in many states.

Van Buren was unanimously nominated by the 1835 Democratic National Convention at Baltimore.

The climax came at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

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.

He debuted just weeks after the Democratic National Convention, and just weeks before the Republican National Convention.

Emil Constantinescu of the Democratic Convention ( CDR ) emerged as the winner of the second round of the 1996 presidential elections and replaced Iliescu as chief of state.

* 1992: Harlem, Manhattan in New York City-July-involved Blacks and Puerto Ricans against the New York Police Department, around the time of the 1992 Democratic National Convention being held there.

Crow performs during the final day of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado | Denver, Colorado.

With a Democratic administration, party patronage would normally begin to flow to Mississippi if it had held its Democratic solidarity in the November election.

At a reception for new members of Congress, Oregon Democrat Maurine Neuberger, taking the Senate seat held by her husband Richard until his death last March, got a brotherly buss from Democratic Elder Statesman Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Ambassador-designate to the U.N..

In the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, held in Brussels and London during August 1903, Lenin and Julius Martov disagreed over the membership rules.

The Democratic Front succeeded the National Liberation Front in August 1945 and the first elections in post-war Albania were held on 2 December.

Radbruch was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ), and held a seat in the Reichstag from 1920 to 1924.

In 1992 the Democratic Party of Albania took control of the country through parliamentary elections, deposing the Communist Party of Albania, and Sali Berisha held the premiership of the country.

Albanian Socialist Party Chairman Fatos Nano was elected Prime Minister, a post which he held until October 1998, when he resigned as a result of the tense situation created in the country after the assassination of Azem Hajdari, a prominent leader of the Democratic Party.

National elections held on 13 May 2001 returned Berlusconi to power at the head of the five-party center-right " Freedom House " coalition, comprising the prime minister's own party, Forza Italia, the National Alliance, the Northern League, the Christian Democratic Center, and the Democrats ' Center Union.

On 1 May 1990 the opposition groups held their first big demonstration in Frunze in competition with the officially sanctioned May Day celebrations, and on 25 – 26 May 1990 the opposition groups formed the Kyrgyzstan Democratic Movement as a bloc of several anti-Communist political parties, movements and nongovernment organizations.

The last municipal election, held on December 9, 2006, resulted in a victory for the Democratic Progressive Party's candidate Chen Chu, the first elected female mayor of special municipality in Taiwan, defeating her Kuomintang rival and former deputy mayor, Huang Chun-ying.

Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a FreesoilerAn 1854 cartoon depicts a giant Free Soil Party | free soiler being held down by James Buchanan and Lewis Cass standing on the Democratic Party ( United States ) | Democratic platform marked " Kansas ", " Cuba " and " Central America " ( referring to accusations that southerners wanted to annex areas in Latin America to expand slavery ).

By the time the first national elections were held in the Federal Republic in 1949, Kiesinger had joined the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) and won a seat in the Bundestag, the West German parliament.

Elections were held on 15 October 1985 in which Doe's National Democratic Party of Liberia ( NDPL ) was declared winner.

Two months into his imprisonment, the first Congress of the newly formed Russian Social Democratic Labor Party ( RSDLP ) was held, and from then on Trotsky considered himself a member of the party.

Six seats were held by independents who represent the National Democratic Alliance ( NDA ) opposition group.

He had previously held different careers under the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( PDPA ) and was a graduate of Kabul University.

A United Nations – supervised election held in 1948 led to the creation of separate Korean governments for the two occupation zones, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the north, and the Republic of Korea in the south.

In February 1936, shortly before the purge started in earnest, Bukharin was sent to Paris by Stalin to negotiate the purchase of Marx and Engels archives, held by the German Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) before its dissolution by Hitler.