The Democratic victory was so great that many people thought the Whig Party was finished.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

So,party leaders thought that if any Whig could be elected president, it was Winfield Scott.

VOA: special.2011.08.14

So did President Taylor. The president had hoped that Webster,Clay, and other Whig Party leaders would support his own limited plan of statehood for California.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

Lincoln was not well-known. So the Republican Party published many books and pamphlets about him.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

The health care debate also fueled the rise of the so-called Tea Party movement.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

So,in an effort to unite the party, Stephen Douglas offered to withdraw.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

So delegates gave Arthur the vice presidential nomination to strengthen party unity.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

So they wanted to work for change within the existing Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

"So actually,the message I see coming out of the primaries is that the party base on the Democratic and Republican side is actually fairly satisfied with the people who are representing them.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

So,they did not campaign as one party.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

He is so unpopular some in his party want to oust him as leader before the August election.

VOA: standard.2009.07.13

In the case of the Florida Senate race, Republican Marco Rubio's campaign has also been aided by the so-called Tea Party movement.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

"Republicans were very down after the 2008 and 2006 elections and really,polls numbers are not so good for them today as a party,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

"It is everywhere. So you do not need to have a party to get the swine flu.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

In July 1989, Mr.Gorbachev formally renounced the so-called Brezhnev Doctrine, a policy which had justified the Soviet imposition of communist party rule in the East European satellite states.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

We just do not want it!", Pence was cheered on not only by Republicans, but by grassroots conservatives and Libertarians who are supporters of the so-called Tea Party movement.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

The balance is likely to be tipped by the Liberal Democrats, but so far their leader,Nick Clegg, has refused to say whether his party would side with the Conservatives or Labor.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

"Let's go from here," he said "Let's scrap the bill. Let's build health care reform that respects the limited government and liberty of the American people, so help us God!" Grassroots conservatives, many of them members of the so-called Tea Party movement, are out in force at the rally, eager to spread their anti-Obama, anti-tax,anti-big government message.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18