I have supported the Democratic party in the last five campaigns.

The controversial remark was first made Sunday by Hughes at a Westfield Young Democratic Club cocktail party at the Scotch Plains Country Club.

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 ''.

At the same time reaction among anti-organization Democratic leaders and in the Liberal party to the Mayor's reported plan was generally favorable.

Some anti-organization Democrats saw in the program an opportunity to end the bitter internal fight within the Democratic party that has been going on for the last three years.

Mississippi's relations with the national Democratic party will be at a crossroads during 1961, with the first Democratic president in eight years in the White House.

Split badly during the recent presidential election into almost equally divided camps of party loyalists and independents, the Democratic party in Mississippi is currently a wreck.

Barnett, as the titular head of the Democratic party, apparently must make the move to reestablish relations with the national Democratic party or see a movement come from the loyalist ranks to completely bypass him as a party functionary.

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

The liberals, smelling blood, were faced with the necessity of winning three big votes -- in the Democratic Committee on Committees, in the full party caucus, and on the floor of the House -- before they could oust Colmer.

" Drawing on remnants of the old Whig party, and on disenchanted Free Soil, Liberty, and Democratic party members, he was instrumental in forging the shape of the new Republican Party.

While the Democratic platform followed the Peace wing of the party and called the war a " failure ", their candidate, General George B. McClellan, supported the war and repudiated the platform.

In 1860, the last national political party, the Democratic Party, split along sectional lines.

In an attempt to blunt that reaction and reunite the Democratic party, presidential hopeful Stephen A. Douglas developed the Freeport Doctrine of popular sovereignty in the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858.

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

This type of farmer-labour co-operation became common throughout Western Canada, leading to the creation of the short-lived Progressive Party of Canada in the 1920s, and the more durable Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( Farmer-Labour-Socialist ) in Calgary, Alberta, in 1935, precursor to Canada's modern-day social democratic party, the New Democratic Party.

The Democratic Party, proclaiming itself the party of white men, north and south, supported Johnson.

Recorded in the aftermath of Ochs ' presence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago ( where his exploits included selecting and purchasing a pig for Abbie Hoffman and the Yippies to nominate for President ), it is the darkest of Ochs ' albums, a fact exemplified by its cover, a tombstone proclaiming that Ochs had died in Chicago.

He and his National Democratic Policy Committee were largely ignored until 1984, when he became something of a curiosity by paying for half-hour political ads proclaiming Walter Mondale a Soviet agent of influence, and 1986, when two followers of his won upset victories in Democratic primaries for statewide races in Illinois.

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.

It reconstituted itself as the Palestine Democratic Union ( FIDA ), and Abed Rabbo was officially made an advisor of Arafat.

Distributism does not attach itself to one national political party or another in any part of the world, but it has influenced Christian Democratic parties in Continental Europe and the Democratic Labor Party in Australia.

The minority party, the Kenya African Democratic Union ( KADU ), representing a coalition of small tribes that had feared dominance by larger ones, dissolved itself voluntarily in 1964 and former members joined KANU.

The foreign relations of Laos, after the takeover by the Pathet Lao in December 1975, were characterized by a hostile posture toward the West, with the government of the Lao People's Democratic Republic aligning itself with the Soviet bloc, maintaining close ties with the Soviet Union and depending heavily on the Soviets for most of its foreign assistance.

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.

Eysenck left Nazi Germany to live in Britain, and was not shy in attacking Stalinist ' communism ' ( which he regarded as representative of communist ideology ), noting the anti-Semitic prejudices of the Russian government, the luxurious lifestyles of the USSR's leaders despite their talk about equality and the poverty of their people, and the Orwellian " doublethink " of East Germany's naming itself the German Democratic Republic despite being " one of the most undemocratic regimes in the world today.

The armed resistance to the Sandinistas in Costa Rica initially called itself the Nicaraguan Revolutionary Democratic Alliance ( ADREN ) and was known as the 15th of September Legion.

Even the ruling AK Party, although its core cadres come from the Islamist current, tends to identify itself with the " tradition " of the Democratic Party ( DP ).

Its members formed the Party for Democratic Development which was itself banned in 1991.

Among the two major parties, the Democratic Party generally positions itself as left-of-center in American politics and supports a modern liberal platform, while the Republican Party generally positions itself as right-of-center and supports a conservative platform.

It lynches two gangsters, arrests most Democratic Party officials and disbands itself on August 18.

The Democratic platform largely confined itself to a defense of the Cleveland administration, supporting reduction in the tariff and taxes generally as well as statehood for the western territories.

Democratic socialism advocates for the immediate creation of decentralised economic democracy from the grassroots level, undertaken by and for the working class itself.

After very long cabinet formation talks, the Christian Democratic Appeal ( CDA ), itself a new Christian democratic political formation composed of KVP, CHU and ARP, formed government with the VVD, based on a very narrow majority.

It does not identify itself with either of the American Republican or the Democratic parties.

The city of Cortland itself the largest city in the county leans Democratic.

The use of the term is distinguished from the gradualism associated with Fabianism ( the ideology of the Fabian Society ), which itself should not be seen as being in parallel with the revisionism associated Bernstein and the Social Democratic Party of Germany, as originally the Fabians had explicitly rejected Marxism.

Residents of Audubon, seeking to rid itself of the development's Democratic voters and its public school students, pushed for and passed a referendum to form Audubon Park in 1947.

The Democratic Progressive Party, the ruling party, kept a low profile in this controversy and attempts to distance itself from the incident.

In 1992, the Liberal Democratic Party under Drnovšek's leadership won the parliamentary elections, but due to a high fragmentation of the popular vote had to ally itself with other parties in order to form a stable government.

Al Sharpton, former Pentecostal minister, now a Baptist minister and Civil rights leader, during his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 said that asking whether gays or lesbians should be able to get married was insulting: " That's like saying you give blacks, or whites, or Latinos the right to shack up – but not get married [...] It's like asking ' do I support black marriage or white marriage '...

The populist Readjuster Party ran an inclusive coalition until the conservative white Democratic Party gained power after 1883.

The younger Daley ran a close third, splitting the white vote with Byrne and allowing Washington to win the Democratic primary with just 36 % of the vote.

In the February 22, 1983, Democratic mayoral primary, community organizers registered more than 100, 000 new African American, Latino and poor and independent white voters, while the white vote was split between the incumbent mayor Jane Byrne and future mayor Richard M. Daley, son of the late Mayor Richard J. Daley.

Although winning the Democratic primary is normally tantamount to election in heavily Democratic Chicago, after his primary victory Washington found that his Republican opponent, former state legislator Bernard Epton ( earlier considered a nominal stand-in ), was supported by many white Democrats and ward organizations, including the chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party, Alderman Edward " Fast Eddie " Vrdolyak.

Due to the antagonism of white South Carolina voters toward the national Democratic Party, Hubert Humphrey received less than 30 % of the total vote, carrying only majority-black districts.

The national Party's liberal leaders supported a compromise in which the white delegation and the MFDP would have an even division of the seats ; Johnson was concerned that, while the regular Democrats of Mississippi would probably vote for Goldwater anyway, if the Democratic Party rejected the regular Democrats, he would lose the Democratic Party political structure that he needed to win in the South.

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.

Roosevelt's Democratic coalition, comprising ethnics in the North, labor unions, big-city machines, intellectuals, and the white South, dominated national politics into the 1960s.

Members of the Ku Klux Klan consisting of Confederate Army veterans assassinated over 150 Republican Party officials and prominent African-Americans as part of a successful campaign to retain white Democratic power.

Franklin D. Roosevelt forged a coalition that included the Democratic state party organizations, city machines, labor unions and blue collar workers, minorities ( racial, ethnic and religious ), farmers, white Southerners, people on relief, and intellectuals.

The white minority bitterly resented federal authority and the Republican party county government that continued even after the Democratic party gained control of the state government in 1874.

In 2006 the U. S. Department of Justice filed suit under the Voting Rights Act alleging that the local Democratic party chairman, Ike Brown, had conspired to orchestrate " relentless racial discrimination " against white voters.

Passage was blocked by white Democratic senators from the Solid South, the only representatives elected since southern states disfranchised African Americans at the turn of the century.

A white militia was led against freedmen by Christopher Columbus Nash, elected sheriff on the a Fusionist / Democratic slate.

He defeated Rayburn Waddell, a white, three-term incumbent, by 46 votes in the Democratic primary ( there was no Republican challenger ).

An unreconstructed Southern conservative, he began his political career in the Democratic Party in the days when many white Southern politicians championed racial segregation.

Reagan Democrat is an American political term used by analysts to denote traditionally Democratic voters, especially white working-class Northerners, who defected from their party to support Republican President Ronald Reagan in both the 1980 and 1984 elections.

The States ' Rights Democratic Party opposed racial integration and wanted to retain Jim Crow laws and white supremacy in the face of possible federal intervention.