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    to elect Democrats over Republicans, but both parties do well in elections in the state. The partisan balance of New York is representative of the trends nationwide; “As on the national scene, the party in the electorate is harder to find in New York where nearly one voter in five refuses to register with a party, and where straight party voting is increasingly uncommon” (Schneier 2001). New York state has 2,826,913 registered Democrats, 5,649,934 registered Republicans, and 3,000,776…

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    However, he could be targeting both the Democratic and Republican parties’ therefore remaining neutral in his position. In the article, Starnes explains that,” the Republican voters are sending a clear message. They want a Republican president and want the old ways to be brought back” (Paragraph 14; Starnes). This quote sums up what the Republicans voters think should be in America. In the article, the author explains how the people who chose President…

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    Who rules the world better: donkeys or elephants? This is the ongoing question between the elephants, Republicans, and donkeys, Democrats, of the world. While Republicans are more conservative than democrats they both help not only America, but the whole world, to be better in their own unique way. All leaders differ in opinion on a wide variety of issues, but tax cuts and social issues are two of the main disputes. Taking into consideration that not every leader of either political party has…

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    the Democratic-Republicans. Members of the Federalist Party included Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison, and John Marshall. George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. The Democratic-Republicans included Samuel Adams, Elbridge Jerry, Patrick Henry, George Mason, Richard Henry Lee, George Clinton, Mercy Otis Warren, and James Lincoln. Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton headed the Federalists, while Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson headed the Democratic-Republicans. These two…

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    end of slavery achieved. But Republicans in Congress refused to accept these terms, in turn they rejected new members of Congress. Johnson severed his ties with the Republicans after vetoing two key bills that supported the Freedman’s Bureau and provided federal civil rights to former slaves. The 1866 Congressional elections turned on the issue of Reconstruction. Therefore, the Republicans had a sweeping victory in the North which provided the Radical Republicans (anti-slavery, distrusted…

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    Confederate dead returning to terrorize, suppress, and victimize African Americans and Radical Republicans (white reformers) (Gale Encyclopedia of American Law, 2011). From 1868 through the early 1870s the Ku Klux Klan functioned as a loosely organized group of political and social terrorists. The Klan 's goals included the political defeat of the Republican Party and the maintenance…

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    of his time, the Democrats and Republicans, for being too pro-slavery and compromising too regularly on issues of slavery. From Lincoln 's early presidency, Douglass criticized Lincoln before the emancipation proclamation, stating "Whoever live through the next four years will see Mr. Lincoln and his Administration attacked more bitterly for their pro-slavery truckling, than for doing any anti-slavery work." Instead of compromise, Douglass believed that the Republican Party would have to…

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    of American adults that identify either as Democrats or Republicans, and the corresponding increase in the percentage that identify as independents. On the other hand, political polarization…

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    Republicans also cite what they have termed the “Biden Rule” when arguing that the seat not be filled. The “Biden Rule” stems from a speech that Vice President Joe Biden gave when he was a Senator and Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee (Lerner, Kira). Biden stated that if President H. W. Bush nominated an individual to replace a retiring justice that, "the Senate Judiciary Committee should seriously consider not scheduling confirmation hearings on the nomination until after the political…

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    The Supreme Court has veered on the republican side for some time now. The Democrats viewed Scalia’s death as being a way to flip the Supreme Court’s majority. Like the Supreme Court, the senate is mostly republican. There is a good chance Gorsuch would become the next Judge if the Senate just had a simple vote. If Scalia was replaced by a democrat, it would shift the balance to 5 democrats with only 4 republicans. The democrats were so desperately wanting this to happen they…

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