Democratic Party | |
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Chairperson | Jaime Harrison |
Governing body | Democratic National Committee[1][2] |
U.S. President | Joe Biden |
U.S. Vice President | Kamala Harris |
Senate Majority Leader | Chuck Schumer |
House Minority Leader | Hakeem Jeffries |
Founders | |
Founded | January 8, 1828[3] Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
Preceded by | Democratic-Republican Party |
Headquarters | 430 South Capitol St. SE, Washington, D.C., U.S. |
Student wing |
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Youth wing | Young Democrats of America |
Women's wing | National Federation of Democratic Women |
LGBT wing | Stonewall Democrats |
Overseas wing | Democrats Abroad |
Ideology | |
Political position | Center-left[b] |
Caucuses | Blue Dog Coalition New Democrat Coalition Congressional Progressive Caucus |
Colors | Blue |
Senate | 47 / 100[c] |
House of Representatives | 212 / 435 |
State Governors | 23 / 50 |
State upper chambers | 857 / 1,973 |
State lower chambers | 2,425 / 5,413 |
Territorial Governors | 4 / 5 |
Seats in Territorial upper chambers | 31 / 97 |
Seats in Territorial lower chambers | 9 / 91 |
Election symbol | |
Website | |
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The United States Democratic Party is one of the two biggest political parties in the United States. Since the mid-1850's, the party's main opponent has been the Republican Party. Both political parties have controlled American politics ever since.
For 171 years, [the Democratic National Committee] has been responsible for governing the Democratic Party
The Democratic National Committee shall have general responsibility for the affairs of the Democratic Party between National Conventions
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What are we to make of American parties at the dawn of the twenty-first century? ... The impact of the 1960s civil rights revolution has been to create two more ideologically coherent parties: a generally liberal or center-left party and a conservative party.
Moderation may be relative, but moderates still run the Democratic Party.
This article has argued that a widespread and fundamental reorientation of the Democratic Party toward decidedly centrist national politics over recent decades fundamentally altered the role of corporate governance, and related issues, in the project of assembling a competitive electoral coalition.
Observes that the terms "progressive" and "liberal" are "often used interchangeably" in political discourse regarding "the center-left".
Including the American Democratic Party in a comparative analysis of center-left parties is unorthodox, since unlike Europe, America has not produced a socialist movement tied to a strong union movement. Yet the Democrats may have become center-left before anyone else, obliged by their different historical trajectory to build complex alliances with social groups other than the working class and to deal with unusually powerful capitalists ... Taken together, the three chapters devoted to the United States show that the center-left in America faces much the same set of problems as elsewhere and, especially in light of the election results from 2008, that the Democratic Party's potential to win elections, despite its current slide in approval, may be at least equal to that of any center-left party in Europe ... Despite the setback in the 2010 midterms, together the foregoing trends have put the Democrats in a position to eventually build a dominant center-left majority in the United States.
We conclude by considering why Democrats have taken this course, why they are not perceived as having done so, and why, at this fraught juncture for American democratic capitalism, political scientists could learn much from closer examination of the rich world's largest center-left party.
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