De Tocqueville noted that democratic people have always had a weakness for memorialising their leaders.
Though there was seldom a direct connection between the way they voted and the governments that then ruled them, they turned out at elections like no other democratic people.
However, Banda was expelled from the ruling Democratic People's Party in 2010 in a dispute with Mutharika over the president's efforts to position his brother rather than the vice president as his eventual successor.
In the 2010 election, a conservative coalition consisting of Mr Orban's Fidesz party and the Christian Democratic People's Party won two-thirds of the seats in parliament, and this powerful majority has made it possible for the governing parties to push through several pieces of controversial legislation.
Nearly all the others are members of Letta's Democratic Party or people close to it.
Mr Jonathan's People's Democratic Party (PDP) has previously alternated its presidential candidate between people who come from each of the two halves of the country, in an attempt to keep the peace.
But to most of the American people, Democratic incompetence is no laughing matter.
Republicans objected loudly: it is widely presumed that most hard-to-count people vote Democratic.
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This is because the most reliable Democratic voters are the people dependent upon government programs and the bureaucrats that administer them.
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An official said Mr Kasyanov's Russian People's Democratic Union had not properly completed the documents.
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Because when you mix all of these energetic, high-aspiring people with a democratic system and free markets, magic happens.
And we have brought so many people into the Democratic Party and created enthusiasm among those we seek to serve.
Schnapper said he's worked on Republican and Democratic campaigns and has paid people to hand out leaflets or register voters.
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As a global citizen, I say that this is good--it's proof that cheap tech and democratic capitalism now touch more people.
That catastrophe, coming on the heels of World War I, destroyed the faith countless numbers of people had in democratic politics and traditional free markets.
They were from the ruling People's Democratic Party, winning polls in 2007 in Bayelsa, Cross River, Kogi, Adamawa and Sokoto and vote re-runs in 2008.
In March, his supporters blocked attempts by Mr Obasanjo to foist his preferred candidate, Sam Egwu, into the chairmanship of the ruling People's Democratic Party.
This represents a victory for the democratic will of the Ivoirian people, who have suffered for far too long through the instability that followed their election.
Parliamentary elections that month saw a high turnout of 84% and a narrow win for the Progressive National Party, which took eight seats to the People's Democratic Movement's seven.
Mr. VALDES: I would say that it is a fact that there are enemies of the democratic process and there are people who fear the elections and do not want elections.
And as attitudes about luxury become more democratic and social media brings people closer to the brands, her formula for reaching UHNW individuals, luxury marketers and aspirational luxury consumers should become even more powerful.
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Ibori was not only a state governor when he committed the alleged crimes, he was also a powerful member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) and a financier of the presidential campaign of President Shehu Yar'Adua, now late.
But again, since these elections were local affairs, I think there will be plenty of people in the Democratic Party who've been critical of Dean who will still have their same views and won't necessarily be changed by these outcomes.
We are willing to partner with countries around the world to deepen ties of trade and investment, and science and technology, energy and development -- all efforts that can spark economic growth for all our people and stabilize democratic change.
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To prevent that from happening, it is vital that Tunisia remains committed to the process begun two years ago, she said, with the country's political parties, media and civil society coming together to safeguard the freedoms and democratic progress won by the people.
And there are smart serious people on the Democratic side of the aisle, such as Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md), who might be willing to sit down with their Republican counterparts, roll up their sleeves, and get serious about how to grow the economy.
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People are really interested in the process and in the idea that - so few people carry so much weight in the democratic process, and also, the idea that candidates have to come into people's living rooms and ask for their votes.
She may be left-of-centre, but that is what people expect from a Democratic president.
Flournoy closely mirrors the previous stated policies of the President, the Democratic Party, and the American people.
Some say he may leave his prime ministerial post but stay on to chair his ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front.
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