Examples of Blue Dog Coalition in the following topics:
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The Democratic Party
- The Blue Dog Coalition, a caucus of fiscal and social conservatives and moderates, forms part of the Democratic Party's current faction of conservative Democrats.
- Since election night in 2000, the color blue has become the identified color of the Democratic Party, all major broadcast television networks used blue for Democrat Al Gore.
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The Two-Party System
- The Fifth Party System emerged with the New Deal Coalition beginning in 1933.
- Experts debate whether this era ended in the mid-1960s when the New Deal coalition did, the early 1980s when the Moral Majority and the Reagan coalition were formed, the mid-1990s during the Republican Revolution, or continues to the present.
- Multi-party governments tend to permit wider and more diverse viewpoints in government and encourage dominant parties to make deals with weaker parties to form winning coalitions.
- Multi-party governments permit wider and more diverse viewpoints in government, and encourage dominant parties to make deals with weaker parties to form winning coalitions.
- Blue: Democrat Red: Republican.
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Party Identification
- Party coalitions consist of groups that have long-term allegiances to a particular political party.
- For example, Catholics and labor union members in the Northeast form a part of the Democratic coalition.
- White fundamentalist Protestants are a component of the Republican coalition.
- Parties count on coalition members to vote for them consistently in elections.
- Dark blue indicates districts that supported Democrat for President and Congress; blue indicates districts that supported Democrat for President and a Republican for Congress.
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The Republican Party
- Bush and blue for Democrat Al Gore.
- 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.