He said no matter what stand he takes it would be misconstrued that he was sympathetic to one or the other of the Republicans.

The final vote was generally along party lines, with no Democrats voting guilty, and only a handful of Republicans voting not guilty.

The House vote was almost entirely along party lines, with no Democrats supporting the bill and only 3 Republicans voting against it.

The election of 1878 brought no significant opposition to Garfield's seat in the House, though two potential obstacles existed: the Greenback Party put up a candidate, Judge Tuttle ; and the district had been re-shuffled by the Democrats in an attempt to weaken the Republicans ' hold.

There were no pressing issues of the day save tariffs, with the Republicans supporting higher tariffs and the Democrats supporting lower ones.

" Roosevelt himself did not have a clear idea of the New Deal at this point, so he promised no specific programs and tried to appeal to practically all groups of voters, even Republicans.

" More recently, although Robert H. Michel was the Minority Leader in 1994 when the Republicans regained control of the House in the 1994 midterm elections, he had already announced his retirement and had little or no involvement in the campaign, including the Contract with America which was unveiled six weeks before voting day.

They were generally in control, although they had to compromise with the moderate Republicans ( the Democrats in Congress had almost no power ).

On May 27, 1908, the bill passed the House on a mostly party-line vote of 166 – 140, with 13 Republicans voting against it and no Democrats voting for it.

By the 1950s, there was no statistically significant difference between Republicans and Democrats on tariff policies.

Upon passage of the new GI Bill President George W. Bush stated " Our nation has no greater responsibility than to support our men and women in uniform-especially because we're at war ," ... " This bill shows the American people that even in an election year, Republicans and Democrats can come together to support our troops and their families ," which highlighted that the new GI Bill had been overwhelmingly supported by both parties in the U. S. Congress.

There are no elected Republicans in local Jackson County Government.

The policy won the support of Republicans who controlled Congress and involved sending $ 400 million in American money, but no military forces, to the region.

But he made no secret of his opposition to the radical Republicans.

The incumbent in 1880, President Rutherford Hayes, had no interest in seeking a second term ; after 36 ballots, the Republicans nominated Ohio Representative James Garfield.

On November 10, 2005, Wyden was one of five Senate Democrats who joined 44 Republicans in voting " yes " on Amendment no.

Consequently Ruffo was desperately anxious to come to terms with the Republicans for the evacuation of the castles, in spite of the queen ’ s orders to make no terms with the rebels.

The action had no consequence on Long's future, however, as Republicans declined to challenge his reelection in 1968, 1974, and 1980.

Stuart A. Wright has said that their political racism however was no different from both Republicans and Democratic politicians of the time.

Finally in 1890 the Church leadership announced polygamy was no longer a central tenet, and a compromise was reached, with Utah becoming a state and the Mormons dividing into Republicans and Democrats.

Muste later recalled of his fellow Reformed Dutch Church members that they were " all Republicans and would no more have voted for a Democrat than turned horse thief.

Cobb noted that Republicans at the time had no representation on Arkansas election boards and were not guaranteed precinct watcher positions.

With no opposition, scalawag and carpetbagger Republicans, along with freedmen, formed a thin coalition and took control of the state government.

The Republicans actually took the same position that the Democrats had taken earlier, believing that the election was illegal they nominated no candidates.

Following their victory at Fleurus, the Republicans occupied Belgium and the Rhineland.

Once the Republicans captured the legislature, Garfield's victory was never in doubt ; he was elected to the Senate by acclamation.

Republican Frémont condemned the Kansas – Nebraska Act and crusaded against the expansion of slavery, while Buchanan, a Democrat, warned that the Republicans were extremists whose victory would lead to civil war.

A sweeping Republican victory in the 1866 Congressional elections in the North gave the Radical Republicans enough control of Congress to override Johnson's vetoes and began what is called " Radical Reconstruction " in 1867.

The Democrats meanwhile counter-crusaded against the Republicans, warning that a victory by Frémont would bring civil war.

In a county with a strong history of voting for Republicans, Bamford's victory made history.

McKinley's victory in what was generally a bad year for Republicans made him a possible presidential contender, and Hanna's involvement in the McKinley and Sherman victories established him as a force in politics.

When the 104th United States Congress convened in January 1995, House Republicans voted former Minority Whip Newt Gingrich – the chief architect of their victory and author of the Contract with America – Speaker of the House, while the new senatorial Republican majority chose Bob Dole, previously Minority Leader, as Majority Leader.

The Pensacola News Journal suggested that Harris might withdraw from the Senate race after winning a primary victory, thereby allowing the Republicans to nominate another candidate, such as Tom Gallagher, to run against Bill Nelson.

In 1994 he helped Newt Gingrich effect the Republican Revolution, which gave the Republicans the victory in the 1994 midterm election and swept Democrats from power in both houses of Congress, putting Republicans in control of the House of Representatives for the first time in forty years.

" While acknowledging her desire for Republicans ' political success, she said, " I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the four horseman of calumny -- fear, ignorance, bigotry, and smear.

Historians have explained Kennedy's victory in terms of an economic recession, the numerical dominance of 17 million more registered Democrats than Republicans, the votes that Kennedy gained among Catholics practically matched the votes Nixon gained among Protestants, Kennedy's better organization, and Kennedy's superior campaigning skills.

Republicans, such as California Governor Ronald Reagan, demanded victory or withdrawal, while on the left strident demands for immediate withdrawal escalated.

Only three Republicans won election to the 100-member Arkansas House of Representatives at the time of Rockefeller's first victory: George E. Nowotny, Jr., of Fort Smith, Danny L. Patrick of Madison County, and James " Jim " Sheets of Siloam Springs in Benton County.

The Republicans acknowledged that such an exhaustive list would be impossible to complete, but continued to argue that the volume of illegal ballots, and the electoral tendencies of the counties in which they were cast, demonstrated a strong likelihood that the illegal ballots had led to Gregoire's victory.

The success of his candidates was credited with the Republican takeover of the Oregon House, thus making Oregon the only state in the Union in which the Republicans were able to score a significant victory in 1964.

Some observers cite the Contract with America as having helped secure a decisive victory for the Republicans in the 1994 elections ; others dispute this role, noting its late introduction into the campaign.

This division among Republicans may have contributed to the victory in 1884 of Grover Cleveland, the first president elected from the Democratic party since the Civil War.

Oddly enough, despite the increased Democratic sweep of the 2008 election, he, unlike many Republicans, managed to increase his margin of victory, winning over Democratic challenger Karen Hartley-Nagle by 23 points.

Following the communist victory in Vietnam, Democrats began to view further communist advance as inevitable while Republicans returned to rollback doctrine.

The overwhelming nature of the Republicans ' victory points to a realignment ; the party gained 54 seats ( in a chamber of only 435 ), while neither party would gain more than a handful of seats in any election until 2006.

They could not allow the election to appear as a victory of anti-League Republicans over pro-League Democrats.

The claim in the " Statement of 31 Republicans " that a Harding victory meant brighter prospects for the League of Nations was badly received by some League proponents.