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A political party platform (American English), party program, or party manifesto (preferential term in British and often Commonwealth English) is a formal set of principal goals which are supported by a political party or individual candidate, to appeal to the general public, for the ultimate purpose of garnering the general public's support and votes about complicated topics or issues.
List of Liberal Party and Liberal Democrats (UK) general election manifestos; Limehouse Declaration; Linz Program of 1882; List of Conservative Party (UK) general election manifestos; List of Labour Party (UK) general election manifestos
The Italian word manifesto, itself derived from the Latin manifestus, meaning "clear" or "conspicuous". Its first recorded use in English is from 1620, in Nathaniel Brent 's translation of the Italian from Paolo Sarpi 's History of the Council of Trent : "To this citation he made answer by a Manifesto" (p. 102).
Stacker traced the origins of 20 words and terms used in political discourse using historical archives, research reports, and news articles.
Also called the Blue Dog Democrats or simply the Blue Dogs. A caucus in the United States House of Representatives comprising members of the Democratic Party who identify as centrists or conservatives and profess an independence from the leadership of both major parties. The caucus is the modern development of a more informal grouping of relatively conservative Democrats in U.S. Congress ...
In 2020, the Republican Party decided not to write a platform for that presidential election cycle; [153] instead, the party simply expressing its support for Donald Trump's agenda, [154] and criticizing "the media" for biased reporting. [155] This was cited by critics as an example of how the Republican Party "became a cult of personality ...
Better dead than Red – anti-Communist slogan; Black is beautiful – political slogan of a cultural movement that began in the 1960s by African Americans; Black Lives Matter – decentralized social movement that began in 2013 following the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of African American teen Trayvon Martin; popularized in the United States following 2014 protests in ...
In 2008, broadcast text messaging was a new form of communication that was strictly governed and spam-free. That year, I had the privilege of sending some of our nation’s first text messages for ...