Republican Party

Examples of Republican Party in the following topics:

• Democracy in the U.S.

  • Unlike the United Kingdom and other similar parliamentary systems that directly choose a particular political party, Americans vote for a specific candidate.
  • The modern political party system in the United States is a two-party system dominated by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.
  • These two parties have won every United States presidential election since 1852, and have controlled the United States Congress since at least 1856.
  • Periodically, several other third parties achieve relatively minor representation at the national and state levels.
  • Among the two major parties, the Democratic Party generally positions itself as left-of-center in American politics and supports a liberal platform, while the Republican Party generally positions itself as right-of-center and supports a conservative platform.

• Political Parties and Elections

  • In two-party systems, such as in Jamaica and Ghana, the two political parties dominate to such an extent that electoral success under the banner of any other party is virtually impossible.
  • Multi-party systems are systems in which more than two parties are represented and elected to public office.
  • In the late 19th century, these parties faced opposition by the newly founded left-of-center workers' parties, who formed a new party type—the mass membership party—and a new source of political fundraising—membership dues.
  • Ronald Reagan giving his Acceptance Speech at the Republican National Convention, Detroit, MI.
  • Evaluate the party system, both in proportional representation voting systems and two-party systems

• Political Parties

  • 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's stating that he or she is a member of the Labour party.
  • At the federal level, each of the two major parties has a national committee (See, Democratic National Committee, Republican National Committee) that acts as the hub for much of the fund-raising and campaign activities, particularly in presidential campaigns.
  • The map below shows the results of the 2008 Presidential Election in the United States, illustrating the strength of the two major parties varies by geographic region in the U.S., with Republicans stronger in the South, Midwest, and some Mountain states while Democrats are stronger along the coasts.
  • Sweden has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.
  • The Pirate Party is the third largest party in Sweden in terms of membership.

• African Americans as a Political Force

  • The large majority of African Americans support the Democratic Party.
  • In the 2004 Presidential Election, Democrat John Kerry received 88 percent of the African American vote, compared to 11 percent for Republican George W.
  • Historically, African Americans were supporters of the Republican Party because it was Republican President Abraham Lincoln who granted freedom to American slaves; at the time, the Republicans and Democrats represented the sectional interests of the North and South, respectively, rather than any specific ideology—both right and left were represented equally in both parties.
  • Roosevelt's New Deal coalition turned the Democratic Party into an organization of the working class and their liberal allies, regardless of region.

• Hispanics as a Political Force

  • Only 23% of Hispanics identify as Republicans.
  • For example, in the 2010 midterm elections, in spite of general Republican victories, 60% of Hispanics voted Democratic, while only 38% voted Republican.
  • In 2006, 69% of Hispanic voters supported Democratic candidates in congressional races, while only 30% supported Republican candidates.
  • For example, Cuban Americans and Colombian Americans tend to favor conservative political ideologies and to support the Republican Party.
  • Mexican Americans, Puerto Rican Americans, and Dominican Americans, on the other hand, tend to favor liberal views and to support the Democratic party.

• The U.S. Political System

  • Although nothing in U.S. law requires it, in practice, the political system is dominated by political parties.
  • With rare exceptions, elections are decided between the two major parties: Democrats and Republicans.
  • Therefore, much of U.S. politics boils down to party politics.

• Voting Patterns and Inequality

  • In 2010 things had improved slightly; 17.2% of the House and 17% of the Senate were women, though a substantial imbalance remained between the two political parties.
  • U.S. counties with sex segregated occupations are 11% more likely to vote Republican than counties that have mixed-sex occupations.
  • This figure breaks down women's participation in Congress in the U.S. by year and by political party.
  • Women are more likely to be elected as Democrats than as Republicans, but remain underrepresented among both parties relative to their percentages in the population as a whole.

• Two-mode SVD analysis

  • Toward the positive end of dimension one (which we earlier interpreted as favoring public expenditure) we find the Democratic party, public employees and teachers unions; at the opposite pole, we find Republicans and some business and professional groups.

• Gender Inequality in Politics

  • The National Women's Party became the first cause to picket outside of the White House, with banners comparing President Wilson to his German adversary, Kaiser Wilhelm.
  • President, she was the first female candidate to have a significant chance of winning the nomination of a major party and the general election.
  • Commentary about the role of gender in the 2008 presidential election further snowballed when Republican presidential nominee John McCain chose female Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate.

• Homophobia

  • Republicans are far more likely than Democrats to have negative attitudes about people who are LGBTQ.
  • After the rise of Adolf Hitler, homosexuals were one of the many groups targeted by the Nazi Party and became victims of the Holocaust.
  • Beginning in 1933, gay organizations were banned, scholarly books about homosexuality were burned, and homosexuals within the Nazi Party itself were murdered.