Examples of Liberal Republicans in the following topics:
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- In response to President Grant's federal patronage, in 1870, Senator Carl Schurz from Missouri, a German immigrant and Civil War hero, started a second party known as the "Liberal Republicans."
- The Liberal Republicans thought that the Grant administration, and the president personally, were fully corrupt.
- The Liberal Republicans successfully ran B.G.
- Grant also favored amnesty for former Confederate soldiers such as the Liberal Republicans.
- Horace Greeley was soundly defeated as the candidate of the Liberal Republican Party during the election of 1872.
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- Incumbent Democratic President
Wilson narrowly defeated Republican Supreme Court Justice Hughes in the 1916
election.
- Theodore
Roosevelt had split from the GOP and formed his own group, the Progressive Party,
which attracted most of the liberal Republicans.
- William Howard Taft, the
incumbent president and Roosevelt’s successor, won the 1912 Republican nomination.
- Several candidates competed for
the 1916 Republican nomination, but the party's bosses wanted a moderate who would
be acceptable to both conservative and liberal factions.
- Contrast the Democratic and Republican platforms in the election of 1916
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- American conservatism of the Republican Party is not wholly based upon rejection of the political ideology of liberalism, as many principles of American conservatism are based upon classical liberalism.
- Rather the Republican Party's conservatism is largely based upon its support of classical principles against the modern liberalism of the Democratic Party that is considered American liberalism in contemporary American political discourse.
- The Republican Party, led by House Republican Minority Whip Newt Gingrich campaigning on the Contract with America, was elected to majorities to both houses of Congress in the Republican Revolution of 1994.
- The party's founding members chose the name "Republican Party" in the mid-1850s as homage to the values of republicanism promoted by Thomas Jefferson's Republican Party.
- Prior to the formation of the conservative coalition, which helped realign the Democratic and Republican Party ideologies in the mid-1960s, the party historically advocated classical liberalism, paleo-conservatism, and progressivism.
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- Among those who do identify as either liberal or conservative, few identify as "far left" or "far right. " Most Americans either identify as "moderate" or as "somewhat" liberal or conservative.
- In the U.S., the Democratic Party generally represents liberal ideals, while the Republican Party commonly represents conservative ideals.
- Even though liberals as a whole tend to be the most educated ideological demographic (as indicated by Pew research), moderates tend to become increasingly conservative with increased economic prosperity, causing the professional class to be split between Republicans and Democrats.
- Libertarians commonly hold liberal views on social issues but conservative views on economic issues.
- Since the 1980s, a majority of libertarians have favored the Republican Party, although in recent years, the margin favoring the Republicans has begun to shrink because of the libertarians' opposition to many recent Republican supported social issues.
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- Since the 1930s, the party has promoted a social liberal, social democratic and progressive platform, and its Congressional caucus is composed of progressives, liberals, centrists, and left-libertarians.
- The Democratic-Republican Party gained power in the election of 1800.
- Most War Democrats rallied to Republican President Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans' National Union Party in the election of 1864, which featured Andrew Johnson on the Republican ticket even though he was a Democrat from the South.
- The Great Depression in 1929 that occurred under Republican President Hoover set the stage for a more liberal government; the Democrats controlled the House of Representatives nearly uninterrupted from 1931 until 1995 and won most presidential elections until 1968.
- Since the 1890s, the Democratic Party has favored liberal positions ("liberal" in this case meaning social liberalism).
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- Roosevelt, which has strongly influenced American liberalism, has shaped much of the party's agenda since 1932, and Roosevelt's New Deal coalition controlled the White House until 1968.
- The other major contemporary political party in the United States is the Republican Party.
- Today, the Republican Party supports an American conservative platform, with foundations in economic liberalism, fiscal conservatism, and social conservatism.
- Bush was the 19th Republican to hold that office.
- USA Today's review of state voter rolls indicates that registered Republicans declined in 21 of the 28 states that register voters by party, and that Republican registrations were down 350,000 in 2011.
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- Democratic and Republican Parties have historically taken ideologically ambiguous positions in order to attract a wide range of supporters.
- The two major Democratic and Republican Parties in the United States have historically been ideologically ambiguous in order to accommodate citizens representing a broad spectrum of interests.
- However, some broad differences still exist between the Democratic and Republican Parties.
- The Democratic Party is most associated with a liberal attitude toward politics that emphasizes a more active government role in regulating the economy, ensuring equality, and providing a social safety net.
- Meanwhile, the Republican Party tends to favor a more conservative view advocating a free market economic system and limited government intervention in the lives of citizens.
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- Despite these two previous defeats, Bryan remained extremely popular among the more liberal and Populist elements of the Democratic Party.
- However, Taft undercut Bryan's liberal support by accepting some of his reformist ideas, and Roosevelt's Progressive policies blurred the distinctions between the two parties.
- Businessmen continued to support the Republican Party, and Bryan failed to fully secure the support of labor.
- The northern states went Republican, as did contiguous territory in Kansas.
- Portrait of William Howard Taft, the Republican Party candidate in the presidential election of 1908.
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- American republicanism is a political ideology that sees government as the pursuit of common good by a virtuous, participating citizenry.
- Republicanism required the service of those who were willing to give up their own interests for a common good.
- English country party drew heavily on the classical republican language of ancient Rome: celebrating the ideals of duty and virtuous male citizenship as the basis of effective republicanism.
- The country party system was adopted by liberal Whigs, and even some Tories in England, who criticized the corruption and nepotism of the royal court party in favor of parliamentary representation as the least corruptible form of governance.
- For example, during Washington's two terms as president, Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans clashed over numerous domestic matters and, in this conflict, drew on conflicting visions of classical republicanism to advocate for two distinct socio-economic visions of American society.
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- The terms "red state" (Republican-voting) and "blue state" (Democratic-voting) were standardized during the 2000 US presidential election.
- The terms have been expanded since 2000 to differentiate between conservative-leaning states, depicted in red, and liberal-leaning states, depicted in blue.
- Other networks alternated red and blue between the Democratic and Republican Parties every four years.
- Despite the nearly nationwide acceptance of Republican red states and Democratic blue states, the paradigm has come under criticism.
- The Republican and Democratic Parties within a given state may have platforms that depart from national party platforms.