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Congress Old party New party Notes Galusha A. Grow: Pennsylvania: 14th: February–June 1856 34th: Democratic: Republican: He switched parties in the wake of President Pierce's signing of the Kansas–Nebraska Act. John J. O'Connor: New York: 16th: October 24, 1938 75th: Democratic: Republican: Lost Democratic renomination, defeated for re ...
His family left the Democratic Party to join the Republican Party, but he rejoined the Democratic Party after the war. 1965 – Arlen Specter, U.S. senator from Pennsylvania (1981–2011). He was a Republican from 1965 to 2009 and a Democrat from 1951 to 1965 and 2009 to 2012. [420]
The Wisconsin Progressive Party was dissolved in 1946. Lost re-election to the Senate when defeated by Joseph McCarthy in the Republican primary later that same year. [32] Joe Lieberman: Connecticut: 2006 /2007 (see note) 110th: Democratic: Independent: Lieberman left the Democratic Party after losing the Democratic primary for re-election.
The transition into today's Democratic Party was cemented in 1948, when Harry Truman introduced a pro-civil rights platform and, in response, many Democrats walked out and formed the Dixiecrats. Most rejoined the Democrats over the next decade, but in the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act.
American electoral politics have been dominated by successive pairs of major political parties since shortly after the founding of the republic of the United States. Since the 1850s, the two largest political parties have been the Democratic Party and the Republican Party—which together have won every United States presidential election since 1852 and controlled the United States Congress ...
In fact, a 2023 Morning Consult poll found "by a 9-point margin, voters also see the Democratic Party as more ideologically extreme than the GOP." Polls Find GOP Inching Right, While Democrats Go ...
The Blue Dog Coalition, commonly known as the Blue Dogs or Blue Dog Democrats, is a caucus of moderate members from the Democratic Party in the United States House of Representatives. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The caucus was founded as a group of conservative Democrats in 1995 in response to defeats in the 1994 elections .
McLeod also ran for governor in 2022, but lost in the Democratic primary to former U.S. Rep. Joe Cunningham. McLeod later complained about the party and said it didn’t do enough to support Black ...