Still, it was a great victory for the Whig Party and a sharply felt loss for the opposing party, the Democrats.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

These areas saw a growing support for a peace party a political party opposed to the war.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

America's third party at that time -- The People's Party -- had a difficult decision to make.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

Sometimes I feel like a fish out of water when I go to a party and everyone but me is doing the latest dance.

VOA: special.2011.04.10

Linda Hernandez is a Tea Party activist in Maryland.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

Tea Party activists seem more focused on shifting the Republican Party in a more conservative direction than in forming their own political party.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

It could help him build a new political party, a party that might elect him president for another four years.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

It was a party of protest, formed by men who refused to support either of the two old parties.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

President Pierce had tried to unite the different groups in the party by giving each a representative in his cabinet.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

And he said they wanted a change. He said: "Party unity is not a sufficient excuse for silence."

VOA: special.2009.08.30

Just before the Civil War, the Whig political party was making a last effort to remain a part of American political life.

VOA: special.2010.02.14

He served five terms. In nineteen fifty-eight, McCarthy defeated a Republican Party senator and won a seat in the United States Senate.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

The Democratic Party had a much more difficult time choosing a candidate for president in eighteen sixty-eight.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

And he had been the candidate of a minor party in the presidential election of eighteen eighty.

VOA: special.2010.06.10