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Understanding the Democratic Party of the United States

This quiz tests your knowledge about the Democratic Party in the United States, covering its history, ideology, key figures, and significant legislative priorities.

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1 Where are the headquarters of Democratic Party (United States)?

2 What ideology does Democratic Party (United States) subscribe to?

3 America Votes and the ________ are liberal umbrella organizations that push for progressive causes.

4 Immigration and ________ is deemed positive; liberals favor cultural pluralism, a system in which immigrants retain their native culture in addition to adopting their new culture.

5 They have also sought to prevent reinstatement of the death penalty in those states which currently prohibit it, including Massachusetts and ________.

6 [103] For the majority of the 20th century, ________ Democrats used the Statue of Liberty as their ballot emblem.

7 Who of the following was chairman of Democratic Party (United States)?

8 While the American ________ has lost much of its political strength with the decline of labor unions,[34] it remains a stronghold of the Democratic Party and continues as an essential part of the Democratic base.

9 Both the AFL-CIO and Change to Win have identified their top legislative priority for 2007 as passage of the ________.

10 Agrarian Democrats demanding Free Silver overthrew the Bourbon Democrats in 1896 and nominated ________ for the presidency (a nomination repeated by Democrats in 1900 and 1908).

💡 Interesting Facts

  • U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy's 1968 presidential campaign won the most Democratic primary votes but was denied the nomination at the party's 1968 National Convention.
  • after an effort to elect left-wing Democrats to the U.S. Congress failed in 1946, the Union for Democratic Action was disbanded and Americans for Democratic Action formed to replace it.
  • before he switched to the GOP, Gerald Theunissen, a Democrat, won a special election in 1996 to the Louisiana Senate by defeating Republican state chairman Mike Francis.
  • Robert King High was mayor of Miami for ten years and unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Florida as a Democrat in 1966.
  • Robert Adley became on December 10, 2007, the newest Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate, just fifty-six days after he was easily reelected as a Democrat in the October 20 jungle primary.
  • Parker Watkins Hardin became the first Democrat to be defeated in a Kentucky gubernatorial election against a Republican candidate, losing to William O'Connell Bradley in 1895.
  • Paul Eggers, the Texas Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1970, trailed his senatorial ticket mate, George H.W. Bush, by 34,000 votes, and both lost to Democrats.
  • Rafael Fraguela was elected to the N.J. Assembly 33rd District as a Democrat, became a Republican to run for the N.J. Senate, and returned to the Democrats to vote for a stem cell research bill.
  • in 1948, Frank W. Mayborn, a Texas newspaper publisher, cast the tie-breaking vote to certify Lyndon B. Johnson as the Democratic party's U.S. Senate nominee.
  • in January 2009, Theodore Hoskins became the only Democratic chairman of a committee in the Missouri House of Representatives.
  • the U.S. Senate confirmed Winthrop M. Daniels as an I.C.C. commissioner by 36–27 after some opposing Democrats voted in favor so as not to offend President Woodrow Wilson by rejecting his friend.
  • the Minnesota State Constitution initially had two versions: one signed by Republicans and the other by Democrats.
  • the lifelong Democrat Jim Naugle is in his sixth straight term as the Mayor of Fort Lauderdale and supported only Republicans for President since 1968.
  • the Nebraska Republican Party nabbed Democratic candidate Max Yashirin's namesake domain name and posted unflattering photos of him there after he stood for Nebraska's 1st congressional district.
  • the Arkansas Democratic politician Hayes McClerkin in 1970 challenged Governor Winthrop Rockefeller's "list" of militants disrupting college and university campuses.
  • in a June 2009 "parliamentary coup", Democrats Pedro Espada, Jr. and Hiram Monserrate agreed to vote with Republicans, giving the minority Republicans control of the New York State Senate.
  • in his easy re-election in the 2004 North Dakota gubernatorial election John Hoeven was endorsed by the state teachers' union, which normally supports Democrats.
  • retiring Democratic state legislator David Farabee of Wichita Falls represents one of the most Republican-leaning districts in Texas currently held by a Democrat.
  • Oscar M. Laurel, a south Texas Mexican-American Democratic state representative known for his flamboyant oratory, opposed a late 1950s bill that would have declared cactus peyote an "unlawful dangerous substance".
  • Kesha Rogers, who won the 2010 Democratic primary for Texas's 22nd congressional district, is a follower of the LaRouche movement and has called for the impeachment of President Barack Obama.
  • Republican Monty Warner called on his Democratic rival Joe Manchin to endorse George Bush for re-election during the 2004 West Virginia gubernatorial election.
  • Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon received regular briefings on the Vietnam War from Democratic President Lyndon Johnson during Nixon's 1968 campaign against Johnson's Vice President.
  • American politician Dean Alfange (pictured) held either appointments or nominations from four different political parties: the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, the American Labor Party, and the Liberal Party of New York.
  • Republican Governor Bobby Jindal supported Joel Chaisson, a Democrat, to become the new president of the Louisiana State Senate.
  • New Jersey Assemblymember Jack Casey was one of many Democratic Party incumbents swept out of office in 1991 in what was called an "anti-tax tidal wave".
  • Democrat Paul J. Carmouche and Republican John C. Fleming face off on December 6, 2008, in one of the final two U.S. Congressional races of the year, delayed due to Hurricane Gustav.
  • Democrat Mayor Thomas G. Dunn, national co-chairman of Democrats for Nixon, was "read out of the party" for his support of Republican President Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election bid.
  • Erie County voters elected Antoine Thompson to the New York State Senate after he defeated cousins Marc Coppola and Al Coppola during the 2006 Democratic primary election.
  • U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey (pictured) entered the 1968 presidential race too late to participate in the Democratic primaries, and had to use "favorite son" candidates as stand-ins for his campaign.
  • Wayne Morse won the Democratic primary in an attempt to reclaim his Senate seat in the 1974 Oregon United States Senate election but died prior to the general election.
  • Frank T. Norman, a Louisiana Democrat, was among the first members of his party to lose a general election to a Republican opponent, as the two-party system began to sprout in the American South.
  • Gerald Long, an incoming Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate, is believed to be the only Long family member to have held significant public office in Louisiana outside the Democratic Party.
  • Jeanne Labuda, a Democratic member of the Colorado House of Representatives elected in 2006, was a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia.
  • Frank Fulco, a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives between 1956 and 1972, was once honored on his House floor by the government of Italy for his long involvement in Italian American causes.
  • D. John Markey complained of the Democratic Party's 82-year grip on Maryland after the close and controversial 1946 Senate race against Governor Herbert O'Conor.
  • Camille Gravel, a Louisiana Democrat and civil rights advocate, was highly influential in state and national politics despite never holding office.
  • Captan Jack Wyly was a Democratic Party power broker in Lake Providence, Louisiana, which was labeled by Time magazine in 1997 as the poorest city in the United States.
  • Democrat Bob Holden was the first incumbent Missouri Governor to lose a primary.
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