The Republicans ' counterargument that slavery was the mainstay of the enemy steadily gained support, with the Democrats crushed at the 1863 elections in Ohio when they tried to resurrect anti-black sentiment.

Following the 1998 presidential election, Klerides tried to form a government of national unity, by including six ministers from Klerides ' Democratic Rally party, two ministers from the socialist EDEK, three from the Democratic Party ( who broke ranks with party leader Spyros Kyprianou ) and one from the United Democrats.

The British and Danish Conservatives tried to maintain a group of their own called the European Democrats ( ED ), but lack of support and the problems inherent in maintaining a small group forced ED's collapse in the 1990s, and its members crossed the floor to join the EPP Group.

Russian Bolshevik Joseph Stalin visited the meeting, demanding that the Finnish socialists carry out revolution, and tried to push the Social Democrats forward by promising independence to Finland.

In 1987, Rau tried to become chancellor of Germany for the SPD, but his refusal to contemplate forming a coalition with the Green Party meant he could not win the elections against Helmut Kohl ’ s Christian Democrats ( CDU ).

Unable to deny their presence in the chamber, Democrats then tried to flee the chamber or hide under their desks, but Reed ordered the doors locked.

) Trapped, the Democrats tried to hide under their desks and chairs ; Reed marked them present anyway.

In 1997, several Republican Congressional leaders tried to force Speaker Newt Gingrich to resign ; however Gingrich refused since that would have required a new election for Speaker, which could led to the possibility that Democrats — along with dissenting Republicans — would vote for the Democrat Dick Gephardt ( then Minority Leader ) as Speaker.

The Christian Democrats under Konrad Adenauer and his successors tried to combat the Communist regime of East Germany, while Brandt's Social Democrats tried to achieve a certain degree of cooperation with East Germany.

" He's tried to negotiate a course between the different interest groups and keep Democrats on a more centrist, business-oriented track ".

He tried to unite the liberal Democrats with the dwindling Whig Party, which led to establishment of the Republican Party.

When Brüning tried to impress upon him that neither the Social Democrats nor the international community would accept any return of the deposed emperor, Hindenburg threw him out of his office.

Reed even ordered the doors of the chamber locked when Democrats tried to exit ; instead, Democrats began hiding under their desks, which left Reed undeterred in counting them.

In an extreme case, say a Ralph Nader supporter in Florida in 2004 had used different email addresses and names to register 10 different times with votepair. org and then tried to manipulate 10 different Democrats in Texas to all vote for Nader, while casting his own ballot in Florida not for John Kerry but for Nader as well.

Craxi had a firm grasp on a party previously troubled by factionalism, and tried to distance it from the communists and to bring it closer to Christian Democrats and other parties ; his objective was to create an Italian version of European reformist socialist parties, like the German SPD or the French Socialist Party.

Lincoln tried to build a multi-faction coalition, including radicals, conservatives, moderates, and War Democrats ; while he was often opposed by the Radicals, he never ostracized them.

Douglas tried to convince, especially the Democrats, that Lincoln was an abolitionist for saying that the American Declaration of Independence applied to blacks as well as whites.

Both parties tried their luck in cartel with a bigger party, N-VA allying with the Christian Democrats of CD & V, and Spirit with the Flemish socialists of SP. a.

" Rebellion " stood for the Democrats of the Confederacy, who tried to break the Union in 1861, as well as their northern allies, called " Copperheads.

Heinrich August Winkler tried to find a compromise, according to which the Social Democrats depended to a limited extent on the cooperation with the old elites, but went considerably further than necessary: " With more political willpower they could have changed more and preserved less.

The Democrats in Congress tried to cut the military budget in 1915.

However, when Bush compromised with Democrats to try to lower Federal deficits, he reneged on his promise not to raise taxes, hurting his approval rating.

At the time, the paper had run into financial trouble and was unable to raise bank loans because its then editor, Piero Ottone, was considered hostile to the ruling Christian Democrats.

In response to the proposal, he criticized Democrats for attempting to raise taxes in the midst of an extremely difficult economic situation.

Ruffley has opposed the Liberal Democrats ' plan to give away the government's shares in Lloyds and RBS, and called for them to be sold to raise money for a cut in the basic rate of income tax.

Bush eventually agreed to a compromise with Congressional Democrats to raise several taxes as part of a 1990 budget agreement.

During the campaign, Nunn charged that Democrats wanted to raise taxes to pay for administrative inefficiencies.

Like most other unions in the United States, NALC is involved politically and has largely supported the Democratic Party, although has been critical of Democrats on occasion, such as President Lyndon B. Johnson when he vetoed a postal pay raise in the mid-1960s.

When Congressional Democrats asked the justice department to investigate the CIA's destruction of terrorist interrogation tapes Turley said, " these are very serious allegations, that raise as many as six identifiable crimes ranging from contempt of Congress, to contempt of Justice, to perjury, to false statements.

In 1996 the party changed its name to the current form, Christian Democrats ( Kristdemokraterna ), switching the abbreviation form to KD, in a gesture perceived by elements both inside and outside the party as helping deflect the belief that it was a strictly religious party.

Although the parties of the Weimar Coalition remained the base of the Weimar Republic, they could not agree to resume a formal coalition government, especially because of disagreements between the Centre Party and the Social Democrats on issues like religious schools or a nationwide Concordat with the Holy See.

The Christian Democrats of Sweden, rooted in the Pentecostal religious tradition, has a similar history.

Future New Zealand, which was not represented in parliament, was a " secularised " evolution of the Christian Democrats, following the same basic principles as the Christian Democrats, but abandoning the explicit religious connection.

In 2006, Smith became the spokesperson for Devout Democrats, an inter-faith, grassroots political action committee designed to convince religious Americans to vote for Democrats.

The Christian Democrats later " secularised " themselves, removing the explicitly religious nature of their party while keeping the same policy outlook.

Question Time began with a panel of four guests, usually one member from each of the three major parties ( the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats ) and another public figure, for example non-governmental organisation directors, newspaper columnists, or religious leaders.

Concord sponsors nearly 200 on-campus organizations, including fraternities, sororities, religious and political organizations, an Art Society, chapters of Delta Zeta, Alpha Sigma Alpha, Sigma Sigma Sigma, Phi Alpha Delta, Alpha Phi Omega, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Phi Sigma Phi, Pi Kappa Phi, Sigma Tau Gamma, Sigma Tau Delta, Alpha Sigma Tau, College Republicans, Young Democrats, and a chapter of Amtgard known as the " Shire of Nowhere Mountains.

Günther himself would hardly have approved, ardent anti-Nazist, religious skeptic, and, according to his wife Ingrid, a cautious supporter of the Social Democrats as he was.

The new legislation was opposed by the Danish People's Party and the Christian Democrats, a religious conservative party, although the latter are currently not represented in the Danish Parliament.

It is stated that in his 2006 campaign, Vinick has strong support from corporate conservatives, neoconservatives, libertarians, Independents and " Bruno Gianelli " moderate Democrats, but that his support is weak among social and religious conservatives ( 7. 06 ).

In 2005, Perkins opposed the blocking of certain right-leaning federal judicial nominees by U. S. Senate Democrats, arguing that the Democrats were waging a " campaign against orthodox religious views ", and that the judicial nominees were being persecuted for their Christian faith.

Bródy, a secular Jew, sympathized with the liberal Free Democrats, while Szörényi became increasingly nationalist and a religious Christian.