The Democrats won the election, because they were able to bridge the differences between their northern and southern members.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

Now, the Greeks were very much concerned individuals and this is especially true of the democrats in Athens.

虽然希腊人很关注个人,这在雅典的民主人士中非常明显

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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

Republican Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee said cutting health care costs step by step is better than the Democrats' plan.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

But he said Democrats in Congress chose "irresponsible" spending over tax cuts, as Republicans proposed for the economic recovery plan.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

Pierce wanted to run for re-election. Many northern Democrats,however, objected to his support of the pro-slavery legislature in Kansas.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

But he says the Liberal Democrats left policymaking to aging politicians out of touch with the needs of the people.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

But the Republican governor angered some Democrats when he vetoed several additional spending items before he signed the budget.

VOA: special.2009.07.31

"This is ground zero for the nation." Democrats in the state Senate fled to the neighboring Midwestern state of Illinois.

VOA: special.2011.02.25

Experts say the public's poor opinion of the national economy, including high unemployment, is the main problem facing Democrats this year.

VOA: special.2010.10.30

In eighteen seventy-six, both the Republicans and Democrats claimed the electoral votes of three southern states: Florida,Louisiana,and South Carolina.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

And they include the Blue Dogs, a fifteen-year-old coalition of moderate and conservative Democrats in the House of Representatives.

VOA: special.2009.07.25

In the nineteen sixties, he was one of the first Democrats in the United States Congress to oppose the party leadership.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

He said Lincoln had removed Democrats friends of his -- from government jobs and had given the jobs to Republicans.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

Democrats in the Senate have lost their sixty-vote supermajority needed to block any effort by Republicans to kill legislation.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

Stephen Douglas united other Democrats and members of the anti-slavery Republican Party to fight against the bill in the Senate.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

Not so in other southern states. In Tennessee,Georgia, and North Carolina, Democrats used threats and violence to win elections.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

House Republican leader John Boehner dismissed the emergency jobs measure as more wasteful spending aimed at pleasing the Democrats' traditional union allies.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

But because of the way election areas had been organized, the Douglas Democrats won a majority of seats.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

However,President Obama and Democrats in the Senate hope to have Elena Kagan confirmed in the next few months.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

Reaction to the speech suggested that it may have done more to unite the president's own Democrats than to gain Republican support.

VOA: special.2009.09.12

At one extreme were the supporters of former President Van Buren -- New York Democrats opposed to slavery.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

And on Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced a deal between Democrats and Republicans to clear the way for final approval.

VOA: special.2009.08.07

But in nineteen ninety-one, Democrats accused President George H.W.Bush of using the last such speech for political purposes.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

At the party's other extreme were the Democrats of the South, led by John C.Calhoun of South Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

Bob McDonnell said Democrats are spending too much and creating a level of debt that cannot be supported.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

If Yancey failed to get the statement he wanted, he would take Southern Democrats out of the convention.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

Larry Sabato also says Democrats were happy that Republicans nominated very conservative candidates supported by the Tea Party.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

Democrats charged that the real purpose of the law was to keep radical Republican state governments in power.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

In every state, the Democrats were divided between those who supported the administration and those opposed to it.

VOA: special.2009.03.05