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In the 2010 elections, three Independent American Party candidates were elected to local offices and one was re-elected. [6] Several IAPN candidates also performed well in various state and legislative elections, including the election for Nevada State Assembly, District 33, where Janine Hansen won 30.81% of the vote and placed second in a three-way race. [7]
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 ...
This is a partial list of symbols and labels used by political parties, groups or movements around the world. Some symbols are associated with one or more worldwide ideologies and used by many parties that support a particular ideology. Others are region or country-specific.
In U.S. politics, Democrat in name only (DINO) is a pejorative term used to describe politicians of the Democratic Party to indicate that their governing or legislating style is more like a member of the Republican Party. [1] The terms Blue Dog Democrat and Yellow dog Democrat have been more popular than DINO for describing heterodox Democrats. [2]
Soon after, in 1818, defenders of the French Old Regime founded a pro-monarchy journal, Le Conservateur, that first used "conservative" in the modern, political sense. The magazine listed what it ...
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is the principal executive leadership board of the United States Democratic Party.According to the party charter, it has "general responsibility for the affairs of the Democratic Party between National Conventions", [1] and particularly coordinates strategy to support Democratic Party candidates throughout the country for local, state, and national ...
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) [a] is the Democratic Hill committee for the United States House of Representatives, working to elect Democrats to that body. [1]
The decision drew criticism from the conservative Family Research Council, which stated, "It appears that the NRCC is abandoning social conservative candidates and the issues for which they stand…." [31] Bachmann was the only one of those three who was re-elected, winning a plurality of 46% of the vote in a three-way race.