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May: In response to the United States Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, the National Right to Life Committee is formed, the oldest and largest anti-abortion organization in the United States. [111] 1974. Robert Grant founds the American Christian Cause as an effort to institutionalize the Christian right as a politically active social ...
Strom Thurmond: Ran in 1948 as a Dixiecrat the southern conservative faction of the Democratic Party. George Wallace: Ran on the right-wing American Independent Party in 1968 but ran again in 1972 as a Democrat. Lester Maddox: Ran for President of the United States in 1976 on the American Independent Party ticket.
The 2012 Democratic Party platform believes that the right to vote and to have one's vote counted is an essential American freedom, and opposes laws placing unnecessary restrictions on those seeking to exercise that freedom, such as voter ID laws. [14]
The party used to be the dominant political party in Texas; however, like in other Southern states, its rival, the Republican Party of Texas has become the dominant party since the 1990s. Texas has not elected any Democratic candidates to statewide office since 1994.
The graph below (using data from List of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States) shows the number of justices sitting in the Supreme Court who were appointed by Democratic or Republican presidents since 1936. In 1936, the Court had 7 justices appointed by Republican presidents and 2 appointed by Democratic presidents.
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 1970 United States Senate election in Texas was held on November 3, 1970. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Ralph Yarborough was defeated by former U.S. Representative Lloyd Bentsen in the Democratic primary. Bentsen then defeated Republican U.S. Representative and future president George H. W. Bush in the general election
During the 1992 United States presidential election, Clinton and running mate Al Gore ran as New Democrats who were willing to synthesize fiscally conservative views with the more culturally liberal position of the Democratic Party ethos, or to harmonize center-left and center-right politics. Clinton was both the first Democrat elected ...