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

A year ago today, when the Democrats were fretting and frolicking in Los Angeles and John F. Kennedy was still only an able and ambitious Senator who yearned for the power and responsibility of the Presidency, Theodore H. White had already compiled masses of notes about the Presidential campaign of 1960.

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

In the 2005 general election, the Liberal Democrats elected 62 MPs to the House of Commons, a far cry from the days when the Liberals had just 5 MPs and Liberalism as a political force had seemed moribund.

The 2010 general election resulted in a hung parliament ( Britain's first for 36 years ), following which the Conservatives ( led by David Cameron ), which had won the largest number of seats, formed a coalition with the Liberal Democrats in order to gain a parliamentary majority, ending 13 years of Labour government.

Ware said that Australia, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malta, New Zealand, Spain and the US had no conservative parties, although they had either Christian Democrats or liberals as major right-wing parties.

Canada, Ireland, and Portugal had right-wing political parties that defied categorization: the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada ; Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, and Progressive Democrats in Ireland ; and the Social Democratic Party of Portugal.

" As of 2006, it had 105 Democrats and 4 Republicans as co-sponsors.

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.

Hayek was defended by Professor Antony Flew who stated that the German Social Democrats, unlike the British Labour Party, had, since the late 1950s, abandoned public ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange and had instead embraced the social market economy.

The February Revolution offered the Finnish Social Democrats momentum: they had the exceptional absolute majority in the Parliament and a narrow dominance in the Senate.

After 25 years of disappointments, the Social Democrats had an opportunity to take political power and to improve the conditions of the common people through social reforms.

In Russia the Social Democrats ' plan had the backing of Vladimir Lenin and the Russian Bolsheviks, who in July 1917 were plotting a revolt against the Russian Provisional Government, which was opposed the Power Act, as it would reduce the power of the Russian administration in the country.

The disintegration of Russia offered the Finns a historic opportunity to gain independence, but after the October Revolution, the positions of the conservatives and the Social Democrats on the sovereignty issue had become reversed.

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.

Both of these opposed Swedish support for the Whites, because they had co-operated with the German Empire and fought against the Finnish Social Democrats.

Irving Berlin quipped, " The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl ", In his book The Groucho Phile, Marx says " I've been a liberal Democrat all my life ", and " I frankly find Democrats a better, more sympathetic crowd ....

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.

When Adams appointed Clay as Secretary of State — the position that Adams and his three predecessors had held before becoming president — Jacksonian Democrats were outraged, and claimed that Adams and Clay had struck a " corrupt bargain.

In that campaign, candidate Clinton forswore many older Democratic policies in favor of centrist Third Way policies that were championed by the Democratic Leadership Council in hopes of reconnecting with many working class voters who had begun to vote Republican in presidential campaign since 1968 — the Silent Majority of Nixon and the Reagan Democrats.

Initially he supported increased autonomy within the Russian Empire, in opposition to the Social Democrats in the coalition-Senate, who in vain strived for more far-reaching autonomy ; but after the Bolshevik October Revolution Paasikivi championed full independence — albeit in the form of constitutional monarchy.

The DPP's platform also includes toughening the criminal code and supporting social welfare policies that have traditionally been championed by the center-left Social Democrats.

The idea received support from Democrats in Congress as well, especially from Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a former Kennedy administration aide who had long championed completion of the Federal Triangle.

The program of the Social Democrats included all of the programs that Bismarck eventually implemented, but also included programs designed to preempt the programs championed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

The year before, Velella's supporters distributed campaign literature that championed him as an advocate of family values and criticized liberal Democrats for undermining sexual morality.

After assurances of legality on Allende's part, the murder of the Army Commander-in-Chief, General René Schneider and Frei's refusal to form an alliance with Alessandri to oppose Allende – on the grounds that the Christian Democrats were a workers ' party and could not make common cause with the oligarchs – Allende was chosen by a vote of 153 to 35.

Democratic Senator Edward R. Burke led an effort to defeat the measure and privately accused Minton of damaging the Democrats ' cause, which led Minton to leave the Lobby Investigation Committee.

They used the threat of violence to cause many Republicans to stay quiet or switch to the Democrats.

For the Liberal Democrats in particular it was predicted that the review would cause deep political divisions both within their own party and within the coalition government as many had signed a pledge promising not to vote for any increase in tuition fees prior to the election.

Black and Hispanic legislators in Florida took on the Rosewood compensation bill as a cause, and refused to support Governor Lawton Chiles ' healthcare plan until he put pressure on House Democrats to vote for the bill.

Democrats For Life stresses that pro-life and pro-choice Democrats should unite in a common cause to make abortion rare through social programs, despite their differences of opinion on whether and to what degree abortion should be legal.

Most Sokol leaders aligned with the Czech National Socialists after the decline of the Young Czech party, and attacked the Social Democrats as “ Germans ” and “ Jews ” opposed to the true Czech cause.

The minor party in Charles Haughey's government, the Progressive Democrats, threatened to quit government and cause a general election unless either Lenihan was sacked from cabinet or an inquiry was ordered into the events of January 1982.

The most notable cause for dispute was the scale of Davy's plans — Goodfellow had wanted a small party focused on winning a select few seats, but Davy was recruiting candidates as though the Democrats were a major party.

On September 26, Bush disputed the implications of and declassified parts of a leaked National Intelligence Estimate report that assessed, " The Iraq conflict has become the ' cause célèbre ' for jihadists ", that appeared in media reports on September 24 ; emphasizing the report's conclusion that the Iraq War is central to the " global jihadist movement " as reason to fight the war, Bush challenged Democrats who interpreted the report as saying the war has increased terrorism and decreased American safety.

It was thought this might cause the collapse of Gerhard Schröder's national coalition government between the Social Democrats and the Green Party.

Although it has been claimed that polygamy was largely responsible for deep animosity between the LDS Church and the United States, in reality, it became a cause celebre to help unite Republicans against Democrats.

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.

) Polk's consistent support for westward expansion — what Democrats would later call " Manifest Destiny "— likely played an important role in his victory, as opponent Henry Clay hedged his position.

The January 1912 elections brought a Reichstag where the Social Democrats, opposed to military expansion, became the largest party.

The Democrats endorsed the popular sovereignty approach to slavery expansion embodied by the Kansas – Nebraska Act.

In the first place the mere existence of the proviso meant the sectional strains that had plagued the Whigs on Texas now beset the Democrats on expansion, the issue the Democrats themselves had chosen as their own.

Mid &# 8209 ; 19th Century Democrats would use it to explain the need for expansion past the Louisiana Territory.

With the rapid expansion of the farming population, Democrats looked to the west for new lands, an idea which became known as " Manifest Destiny.

Together with the Green Party of Switzerland, the Social Democrats have common environmentalist policies, which are reflected in the expansion of ecotax reforms and increased state support for energy saving measures and renewable energies.

The continuing expansion of black education took place against a background of increased violence against blacks in the South after white Democrats regained power in state governments and imposed white supremacy in society.

In the 1844 U. S. Presidential election, the Democrats had called for expansion into both areas.

Emphasizing that “ they were more southern than the Democrats ,” the party grew within the South by going “ after the abolition issue with unabashed vigor and glee .” With both parties arguing who could best defend southern institutions, the nuances of the differences between free soil and abolitionism, which became an issue in the late 1840s with the Mexican War and territorial expansion, never became part of the political dialogue.

Along with strong backing from traditional Democrats and liberals, Clinton was able to garner the support of moderates who appreciated his centrist " New Democrat " policies, which steered away from the expansion of government services of the New Deal and Great Society and allowed him to " triangulate ", taking away many of the Republicans ' top issues.

He was strongly opposed to the expansion of slavery and was one of minority of Democrats who supported the Wilmot Proviso.

Many Republicans along with most Democrats ultimately supported it on the basis that it was really more of a reorganization than an expansion of government as the new department was in reality going to be doing very few things that the former Veterans Administration had not already been doing.

Bill Clinton was the single Democratic politician of the 1990s most identified with the New Democrats ; his promise of welfare reform in the 1992 presidential campaign, and its subsequent enactment, epitomized the New Democrat position, as did his 1992 promise of a middle-class tax cut and his 1993 expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit for the working poor.

The Village of Bensenville believes this bill is in retaliation to Bensenville's long opposition to O ' Hare Airport expansion, as the sponsors of the bill were Democrats from the City of Chicago, the main proponents of expansion.

Douglas was neutral on slavery expansion, and came to be opposed by southern pro-slavery Democrats.

) Following the Recession of 1937 and the debate on " court packing ", southern Democrats joined with Republicans in a conservative coalition to stop further expansion of the New Deal.