Texas Political Parties

American political parties have been around since the founding of our nation. While George Washington himself was not a part of any political party, his cabinet members founded the first parties which were the Federalists and Democratic Republicans. These parties later evolved into the current Democratic and Republican parties that sweep the nation, with third parties following in the shadows. The national parties are what most people are familiar with, excluding the state political parties from being worthy of notice. State political parties and national political parties differ on many things, how they handle issues as well as how they maintain all the votes necessary for the election bid of the public. A Democratic state party may be concerned with only local and state issues, while the Democratic national party would respond to issues that dealt with national security and the well being of the offices of the presidency and legislature. "They are primarily independent of each other, to secure votes... the democratic congressional candidates focused on local interests, while democratic presidential candidates responded to a national constituency." (College Board). The same would be said of Republicans, and each would have their own issues to deal with as their own political view of how the party should run, as with Texas being a …show more content…
The Texas Democratic platform has "freedom of religion and personal conscience" (Texas Democrats) while the Republican platform deals with more of a religious approach "Human life, which is in the natural image of God" (Texas GOP). Both show they wish a limited government, except on how limited it should be. The Democrats believe that the government should not be in the private affairs of what the people do, while the Republicans believe government should be limited to the powers enumerated by the U.S. and Texas