Republican Party

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• The Republican Party

  • The Republican Party is a major political party in the U.S, along with the Democratic Party; its platform reflects American conservatism.
  • The Republican Party is one of the two major political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party.
  • The Republican Party first came to power in 1860 with the election of Lincoln to the Presidency and Republicans in control of Congress and again, the Northern states .
  • 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.

• Uniting Competing Factions Within the Party

  • 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.
  • Instead of adopting polarizing ideological views, the Democratic and Republican Parties stand for the core American values of liberty, democracy, and equal opportunity that appeal to many Americans.
  • However, some broad differences still exist between the Democratic and Republican Parties.
  • 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.

• The Modern Era of Political Parties

  • Modern politics in the United States is a two-party system dominated by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.
  • Modern politics in the United States is a two-party system dominated by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.
  • The other major contemporary political party in the United States is the Republican Party.
  • 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.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the key issues that divide the Democratic and Republican parties in the United States

• The Rise of the Republican Party

  • The Republican Party was formed out of a loose coalition of Northern ex-Whigs who resented Southern political power.
  • Anti-immigration and temperance movements formed the platform of the emerging American ("Know-Nothing") Party, while those interested in the economic development of finance and business in the West and North were attracted to the Republican Party.
  • The driving ideological forces of the Republican Party were commercial expansion, modernization, and agricultural development in the West.
  • Republicans portrayed themselves as the party of economic opportunity and advancement, offering individuals the chance for work, land, and success.
  • Explain why the Republican Party emerged after the collapse of the Whig Party

• The National Party Organization

  • The modern political party system in the United States is a two-party system dominated by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.
  • Statehood Party has served as a strong third party behind the Democratic Party and Republican Party.
  • Thus, for an American to say that he or she is a member of the Democratic or Republican party is quite different from a Briton stating that he or she is a member of the Conservative or Labour party.
  • Democrats were still the largest political party with more than 42 million voters (compared with 30 million Republicans and 24 million independents).
  • The four major committees are part of the Democratic and Republican parties and each work to help members of their party get elected to each house.

• Coordinating and Promoting Party Policy

  • Democratic and Republican National Committees help coordinate and promote party policies but do not organize the creation of policies.
  • The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Republican National Committee (RNC) help to coordinate and promote party policies, although they are not the central organizations that develop these policies.
  • The DNC and RNC coordinate party policy during the Democratic and Republican National Conventions where party platforms are adopted.
  • For example, the debate over abortion between the Democratic and Republican parties has resulted in policy stances that either support or ban the practice of abortion.
  • The Democratic and Republican Parties, additionally, maintain sophisticated websites where they can offer comprehensive overviews of various party policies.

• Ideological Third Parties and Splinter Parties

  • Third party politicians tend to be more ideological than Republicans or Democrats because they do not have to play to the American middle.
  • Currently, the two major American parties are the Democratic and Republican parties, although the top two parties change over time.
  • A third party is any party that supports a candidate for election other than the two major political parties; at the current moment, a third party would be any party other than the Democratic and Republican parties.
  • Third parties tend to be more ideological and extremist than the Democrats or Republicans.
  • However, even as these parties are the largest of the third parties, they represent only a fraction of American voters and are more ideologically oriented than Democrats or Republicans.

• Political Parties from 1800–1824

  • The First Party System refers to political party system existing in the United States between roughly 1792 and 1824.
  • Anti-Federalist debates, it featured two national parties competing for control of the presidency, Congress, and the states: the Federalist Party, created largely by Alexander Hamilton, and the rival Democratic-Republican Party formed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
  • The Federalists were dominant until 1800, and the Republicans were dominant after 1800.
  • The First Party System ended during the Era of Good Feelings (1816–1824), as the Federalists shrank to a few isolated strongholds and the Republicans lost unity.
  • In 1824-28, as the Second Party System emerged, the Republican Party split into the Jacksonian faction, which became the modern Democratic Party in the 1830s, and the Henry Clay faction, which was absorbed by Clay's Whig Party.

• Hosting Conventions

  • The major political parties in the U.S. host the Democratic and Republican National Conventions to select candidates and rally supporters.
  • The two major political parties in the U.S. host the quadrennial Democratic National Convention and Republican National Convention to determine their respective presidential and vice presidential candidates.
  • The Democratic National Committee administers the Democratic National Convention while the Republican National Committee administers the Republican National Convention.
  • In recent years, candidates from the Democratic and Republican parties have been known in advance of these conventions.
  • Examples of such minor parties include the Green Party, Socialist Party USA, Libertarian Party, Constitution Party, and Reform Party USA.

• Party Identification

  • Instead, people self-identify as Republicans, Democrats, or members of minor parties.
  • For example, a child growing up in the 1970s would associate the Republican party with the Watergate scandal of the Nixon administration or a child growing up in the 1990s would associate the Democratic party with the sex scandal of the Clinton administration.
  • In 2000, more people identified as independents (40 percent of the voting population) than affiliated with either the Democratic (34 percent) or Republican (24 percent) parties for the first time in history.
  • White fundamentalist Protestants are a component of the Republican coalition.
  • Dark red districts supported Republican for President and Congress; red districts supported a Republican for President, and Democrat for Congress.