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Hoover is a Republican, with libertarian beliefs on social issues. [19] [20] Hoover is an advocate for gay rights, including gay marriage, arguing that individual freedom and marriage are conservative values. [21] She has been profiled in The Advocate as "exactly the brand of straight ally we need right now". [22]
The 1928 United States presidential election was the 36th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1928. Republican former Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover defeated the Democratic nominee, Governor Al Smith of New York. After President Calvin Coolidge declined to seek reelection, Hoover emerged as the Republican party ...
The 1928 United States elections took place on November 6. In the last election before the start of the Great Depression, the Republican Party retained control of the presidency and bolstered their majority in both chambers of Congress. Republican former Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover defeated Democratic nominee New York Governor Al Smith ...
Democrats gained control of the Senate on June 6, 2001, when Vermont Republican senator Jim Jeffords switched his party affiliation to Democrat. The Republicans regained the Senate majority in the 2002 elections, helped by Bush's surge in popularity following the September 11 attacks, and Republican majorities in the House and Senate were held ...
The nation's two largest liberal newspapers, The Washington Post and The New York Times, have the same problem. The "Democracy Dies in Darkness" paper now has Marc Thiessen, a Fox News contributor ...
The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States. It is the second-oldest extant political party in the United States after its main political rival, the Democratic Party. In 1854, the Republican Party emerged to combat the expansion of slavery into western territories ...
Hoover described the Constitution the “Ark of the Covenant” of liberty. When the Republican Party was in full retreat during the New Deal, Hoover became the leading conservative voice to ...
The election of the president and for vice president of the United States is an indirect election in which citizens of the United States who are registered to vote in one of the fifty U.S. states or in Washington, D.C., cast ballots not directly for those offices, but instead for members of the Electoral College.