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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"democrat"”.
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A Vast and Varied Opposition: The Shifting War Democrat - Peace Democrat Continuum in Civil War Pennsylvania
This thesis identifies the Democratic party in Civil War Pennsylvania as existing along a shifting political continuum. This continuum ranged from the War Democrats, whose support for the Union war effort aided the Republican administration of Abraham Lincoln, to the Peace Democrats, whose …
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The Sediment Sources of Atlantic Shore Beaches between Montauk Point and Democrat Point, Long Island New York USA
Speculation has arisen regarding the possibility of an additional offshore sediment source on the Atlantic inner shelf south of Long Island, New York, as a result of deficits in recent south shore budgetary estimates. In view of the importance of Long Island's inner shelf as a possible sediment …
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An investigation into the media's genderisation of Democrat candidates during the selection process for the 2020 presidential nomination.
… portrayed gender during the TV debates for the Democratic Party nomination for the 2020 US presidential election. Media coverage from debates from November 2019 to March 2020 was investigated to identify discourses that perpetuated gender stereotypes, narratives and tropes, which marginalise …
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The 1961 Texas special senatorial election.
In January 1961, Lyndon B. Johnson, Texas Democrat, resigned from the United States Senate to accept the Vice-Presidency. Governor Price Daniel appointed William A. Blakley as interim senator pending a special election to fill the unexpired term. A record seventy-one candidates filed for the …
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Predicting COVID-19 behavior: Is it all due to political orientation?
… appears to be primarily along party lines (Democrat and Republican<a title="">[1]</a>), though even within parties there is division. This division might be explained by differences in: the behavioral immune system and trust in government. Additional factors to examine include: personality, …
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Henry Albach, editor and agitator, 1914-1918
… Lawrence, Kansas: the German-Americans and the Democrats. The son of a German immigrant who had fled Germany after the failure of the democratic revolution of 1848, Albach felt close ties to both the German people and to the Democratic party. Although trained in law, Albach was a businessman, …
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Iowa statewide voting patterns:1891-1912: naturalization does not create voting citizens
… operations existing within each region. Southern Democrats initially settled in two of the regions (containing the worst soil in the state), writing the state constitution, generally voting the Democrat ticket, and having the highest participation rates coupled with the lowest immigration rates in …
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The life of Rollin "Doc" Bunch, the boss of Middletown
… were also studied, The X-Ray and The Muncie Post Democrat. The X-Ray was a barely coherent anti-Semitic paper, whereas The Muncie Post Democrat was published by another Muncie mayor and bitter enemy of Bunch, George Dale. All four newspapers routinely vilified Bunch, which makes his substantial …
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James Evetts Haley and the New Deal: Laying the Foundations for the Modern Republican Party in Texas
… toward bankruptcy. In 1936, Haley, a life-long Democrat, led the Jeffersonian Democrats in Texas, who worked to defeat Roosevelt and supported the Republican candidate, Alf Landon. He continued to lead a small faction of anti-New Deal Texans in various movements through the 1960s. Haley espoused …
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Dissent From Bourbon On-Party Rule: The 1878 Georgia Fourth District Congressional Election
… demonstrated the persistence of the Bourbon Democrat movement. The campaign and election exemplified the techniques used by Bourbons to gain and maintain their influence. In this paper, three methods were focal points: the one-party system, the Democratic Party nominating conventions and the …
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Forging a New Democratic Party: The Politics of the Third Way From Clinton to Obama
… analyzes the evolution of the American Democratic Party’s ideological orientation from 1985 to 2014. The central problem is to develop an understanding of how shifts in political-economic context and factional agency combine to produce alterations in the predominant ideology of a U.S. …
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Jeane Kirkpatrick and Neoconservatism: The Intellectual Evolution of a Liberal
… This work explores her transition from liberal democrat to neoconservative by examining her early life and educational background, her publications and critiques of American diplomacy in the 1970s, along with her membership in neoconservative organizations. Moreover, this piece scrutinizes her …
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Central City-Suburban Political Preference: The Case of Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa
… contiguous suburban townships and tend to vote Democrat; that the higher socioeconomic status registered voters reside in the west side of Des Moines and the contiguous suburban townships, and tend to vote Republican; that lower and higher socioeconomic status voters tend to participate …
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The Southern perception of the Trans-Mississippi West, 1845-1853
… the partisan differences between Whig and Democrat and the regional conflict between Easterner and Westerner over the desirability, need and rate of expansion divided Southerners. On the potentially divisive issue of slavery expansion, most assumed that the role of slavery in the expansion …
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American Economic Imperialism and the Spanish-American War Era
… This notion appeared daily in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle during 1898. As time passed, the historiography of this era changed to provide more evidence of economic and military imperialism underlying American actions. Also, evidence about American brutality during the pacification of …
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The Making of an American Imperialist: Major Edward Austin Burke, Reconstruction New Orleans and the Road to Central America
… Edward Austin Burke—a Kentucky-born Louisiana Democrat who went on to become a proponent of expansionism and imperialism in Honduras—illuminates the transnational implications of Reconstruction and its aftermath. Through careful examination of personal papers, news accounts, promotional …
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A republican dove : George Aiken in the Johnson years, 1964-1968
… offered by other Senators both Republican and Democrat. Aiken's position as a Republican is shown to have given a bipartisan character to anti-war dissent in the Senate; this was vital in providing such dissent with an added level of legitimacy.
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Use of Defensive and Receptive Reasoning Strategies and Receptiveness to Opposing Political Views
… and partisan polarization (extreme republican-democrat identification) were associated with less receptiveness. Gender and republican-democrat identification were not related to receptiveness. Defensive reasoning strategies did not describe significant variance in participants’ receptiveness …
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An Examination of the No Child Left Behind Act
… Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton, on the Democrat side, and Mike Huckabee and John McCain, on the Republican. Conclusions drawn from this research project suggest the noble intentions of the NCLB legislation are challenging to apply in reality, that amendments to the law need …
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