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For nearly five decades, Rhode Island has been one of the United States' most solidly Democratic states. Since 1928, it has voted for the Republican presidential candidate only four times (Dwight Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956, Richard Nixon in 1972 and Ronald Reagan in 1984) and has elected only two Republicans (former Governor John H. Chafee and his son, Lincoln Chafee, though the younger ...
The Moderate Party of Rhode Island is the third-largest contemporary political party in the U.S. state of Rhode Island, after the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. The Moderate Party of Rhode Island gained official party status and ballot access via a federal lawsuit and the gathering of 34,000 signatures on August 18, 2009.
Sheldon Whitehouse (born October 20, 1955) is an American lawyer and politician serving since 2007 as the junior United States senator from Rhode Island.A member of the Democratic Party, he served from 1993 to 1998 as the United States Attorney for the District of Rhode Island and from 1999 to 2003 as the 71st attorney general of Rhode Island.
Overall, Biden won Rhode Island by 20.8 points, improving on Clinton's 15.5 point win. Rhode Island is the only state in which neither Biden nor Trump broke the all-time Democrat or all-time Republican record for most votes earned in a general election (Lyndon B. Johnson and Dwight D. Eisenhower).
From 1983 to 1984, McConnell worked as a law clerk to Rhode Island Supreme Court Associate Justice Donald F. Shea. [3] From 1984 to 1986, he worked as an attorney with Mandell, Goodman, Famiglietti & Schwartz in Providence. [3] From 1986 to 1991, he served as an associate at what now is the law firm Motley Rice. From 1991 to 2011, he was a ...
Only a handful of Rhode Island's elected and appointed convention delegates responded to The Journal's inquiry, but Anthony DeRose, chairman of the Rhode Island Democratic Party LGBTQ Caucus, was ...
Voted Democratic: 25: Voted Republican: 20: Voted Whig: 4: ... Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Rhode Island, ordered by year.
In the battle for the soul of the Rhode Island Democratic Party, a temporary cease-fire is in effect across much of the state this election season.. The ideologically charged party primaries ...