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Democratic Party
noun
- one of the two major political parties in the U.S., founded in 1828.
Democratic Party
noun
- (in the US) the older and more liberal of the two major political parties, so named since 1840 Compare Republican Party
- (in South Africa) a multiracial political party of the centre-left, now the main opposition to the African National Congress DP
Democratic party
1- One of the two major political parties in the United States; the Democrats . The origins of the Democrats are in the Democratic-Republican party, organized by Thomas Jefferson in the late eighteenth century; the first president elected simply as a Democrat was Andrew Jackson . Always strong in the South, the party was severely damaged by secession , the Civil War , and Reconstruction , and did not produce a winning presidential candidate between 1861 and 1885, when Grover Cleveland was elected. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in contrast to the Republicans , the Democrats tended to be the party of the South and West, opposed to the interests of business and the Northeast. Woodrow Wilson , the next Democratic president, was part of the Progressive movement . In the period of the New Deal , in the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt , the Democratic party reached enormous strength among labor union members, minority groups, and middle-income people. The Democratic presidents since Roosevelt have been Harry S. Truman , John F. Kennedy , Lyndon Johnson , James Earl Carter , and William Jefferson Clinton .
Democratic party
2- A political party that arose in the 1820s from a split in the Democratic-Republican party. Andrew Jackson was the first president elected from the Democratic party. The other Democratic presidents elected before the Civil War were Martin Van Buren, James K. Polk , Franklin Pierce, and James Buchanan. The party generally opposed the national bank, high protective tariffs , interference with slavery, and federal aid for internal improvements in the nation — all measures that the Whigs came to favor. The Democrats' greatest strength was with farmers, laborers, and people of the frontier.
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Former President Clinton visited Orange County to campaign for Tran, a sign of how much the Democratic Party prioritized the race.
The California Democratic Party and Newsom opposed Proposition 36, a statewide ballot measure to increase penalties for repeat theft and drug crimes.
The debates 25 years ago over a majority-minority nation that would usher in Democratic Party dominance were rooted in a belief that white was a fixed group classification.
She said the Democratic Party needs to figure out why the many policies it’s embraced that are actually helping Americans are somehow not resonating with voters.
At The American Prospect, Thomas Nelson advises the Democratic Party to embrace an economic agenda that uplifts the American worker and fully embraces the labor movement:
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