Conservative Democrat

candidate in presidential elections. American voters tend to learn and adopt whichever party affiliation most influenced their childhoods. Those raised in a family of Democrats usually identify themselves as politically liberal, while those raised in a family of Republicans usually identify themselves as politically conservative. However, that is not always the case. The number of voters identifying themselves as 'Independent' is on the rise, though 89% of those voters claim to lean…

inform personal political attitudes. These value preferences can be aligned along a single-dimension liberal to conservative scale (Burden, Caldeira, and Groseclose 2000; Pool and Rosenthal, 2007). Along this ideological scale there has been an increasing sorting of parties to the extreme ends of the scale. Democrats have become more liberal and Republicans (GOP) have become more conservative. This causes a divergence for viewpoints and the notion that the policy positions, interests, and…

was placed under that line for one reason or another, but what is that reason? You can ask any person this question and you would gather a vast number of different answers, but the truth is we really don 't have a clue to what causes poverty. Conservatives and Liberals have their own views on this subject as to why it occurs and what they are doing to help put an end to it. Before I explain the diversity of the two party 's views surrounding…

stereotypical Republican anti-abortion view. Furthermore, the author indirectly accuses the Republican party of having misogynistic views when the man says, “baby killers – er – women.” The author’s word choice not only strengthens his view of conservative Republicans, but his use of irony compels the viewer to his point of…

com, the Labour Party, a left-wing party equal to the Democratic party, and the right-winged Conservative Party, which is similar to the Republican party, are the only parties which have formed the British government for the last 90 years. However, in 2010 the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats had to form a coalition as it was a hung Parliament. In addition, even though the Labour and Conservative party are the two major parties in Britain, the nation has a multi-party system that…

a “timeserver skilled only in predicting and following the tides of public sentiment” (Kennedy 18). He switched his position on same-sex marriage to protect the equality and dignity of the greater public; for this act, his reputation among his conservative constituents was irreversibly damaged. McDonald’s leap of faith in June 2011 came at a steep price. Although his vote in favor of same-sex marriage cost him his reelection to the state senate, it was a worthy sacrifice. In the words of Mayor…

“After the 1948 election Republicans decided that the achievements of the New Deal couldn’t be reversed, and stopped trying, while Democrats… settled down to a program of incremental reform. The result was a generation-long era of muted partisanship.”(Krugman 155). This bipartisan cooperation was due to Republicans moving towards the middle in their policies. The Republican party needed…

The 2008 presidential election was the 56th presidential election and was held on November 4, 2008. Democrat Barak Obama was against Republican John McCain. The parties’ candidates focused mostly on change and reform in Washington, but in the last few months of the election campaign domestic policy and the economy surfaced as the main issues after the 2008 economic crisis. Obama’s ability to ensure voters that he could handle the economic crisis at the time and voters disapproval of the outgoing…

America is not the Greatest Country is the first episode of HBO’s new television series The Newsroom. A news anchor, Will McAvoy, is seated between a strong liberalist, Susan, and a conservative, Lewis, on a journalism panel. When asked to describe why America is the greatest country from a student in the audience the anchor envisions someone in the audience using cue cards telling him, “It isn’t.” This persuades him to give his true opinion, and the anchor continues with a speech about why he…

Taft and his rival Woodrow Wilson, the 1912 presidential election was leaning in the favor of the Republicans. This changed when the Republican Party decided to abandon a progressive platform and stick with conservative ideals. The decision prompted Roosevelt drop support for Taft, betraying not only his party but also their close friendship. Instead he chose to leave the Republican Party and form his own Progressive Party, also known as the “Bull-Moose Party”…