For many voters, the rhetoric of the GOP does not reflect the recent history of the party.
Whatever the outcome for reform and the economy, the split within the LDP is clearly a big event in the history of the ruling party.
Its aim is to present a history of the Democratic Party from the Jackson through the Obama Administrations, and to show how the Party lost its way.
But the history of the last century suggests the party has been driven into what may be described as an inexorable long retreat.
Mr McCain's fierce patriotism appeals to the security-conscious, while his long history of opposition to the shortcomings of his own party (its hostility to immigrants and its insouciance in the face of climate change, to take two examples) gives him more pull with independent voters than any other Republican could have offered.
Today's Republican Party, the lowest-held political party in the history of modern polling, should be in agony.
Ms. CHRISTINE THOMAS (Executive Director, Republican Party, Chester County, Pennsylvania): The history of the county since 1855, which I believe is when the county party started, this is a Republican county.
After a political shake-up in November, the Democratic Party of Albanians, led by a veteran power-broker, Arben Xhaferi, became the main partner of the governing party, a movement that traces its history to the Slav-nationalist struggles of a century ago but has since become tamer.
Cecil Valance stays only three days at Two Acres, the Sawle family house on the edge of North London, but the house party becomes a piece of literary history, because it is here that Cecil writes a poem for Daphne, which memorializes the house and its garden.
It staged three coups between 1960 and 1980 and has a history of tension with the Justice and Development Party (AKP) of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Each contact card also comes with a history of communications between you and the other party, providing gentle reminders of when you last checked in with your neglected friends.
Having worked so hard at establishing a working relationship with Pakistan's military leadership, why would he or his ambassador rely on a lobbyist in Washington who had no history of loyalty to Mr Zardari or the party to convey the alleged memo seeking US help against Pakistan's military?
Over the years, Mr. Sharif, 63, has followed the developments in Turkey another country with a long history of military interference in civilian politics where the Islamist AKP party of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has defanged the military's power in part through economic growth.
Morsy became the first democratically elected president in Egypt's history in June, the candidate of the Freedom and Justice party, the Muslim Brotherhood's political wing.
Opposition and civil-rights groups have asked Mr Zuma and the ANC to rein in Mr Malema, but the ruling party insists the songs are part of liberation history and will appeal against the court ruling.
Kelantan, for instance, is governed by the Islamic Party PAS, and has a long history of opposition to the center, including a little known challenge in the courts that sought separation from the Malaysian Federation when it was formed in 1963.
"He should be remembered as one of the most effective legislators in the history of the US Senate, a symbol of the strength and independence of the US legislature, " said the party's leader David Cameron.
Fifty years of American history have shown that even the party that traditionally advocates small government on the campaign trail opts for big government when it gets into power.
Mr Santelli's televised rant against bail-outs has gone down in history as the birth harangue of the tea-party movement, which went on in double-quick time to capture the Republican Party and yank the whole of American politics sharply to the right.
The situation is very fluid there, but the far-right LAOS party, with a couple of lawmakers in parliament, has lost ground to the ultranationalist Golden Dawn party, which has a history of street violence, Gemenis said.
The GQ party was as much a celebration of the magazine's storied history as it was of West.
But since Vicente Fox won a presidential election in 2000, ending seven decades of rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party, Mexican governments have attempted to put a long history of corruption behind them.
By entering talks with Musharraf, Bhutto has offended the party's "long history of struggle against dictatorship, " Khar said.
"Polar bears are cool but the beaver played a pivotal role in the history of Canada, " said New Democratic Party MP Pat Martin.
Moreover, one sad fact of the Republican Party's recent history is that it often takes an outsider to reform it and make it electable.
For most of human history, conditions of the kind Solomon explores were stigmatized and moralized, and blame was assigned to any party who could be held accountable usually the parents.
Of England's history-making touring party to the Caribbean, only Rikki Clarke and the retired Nasser Hussain won't be going to South Africa.
Rather, it captured Athens' unique culture as a strange mix of decaying South, hip art, small town and cosmopolitan sensibility, says Rodger L. Brown, author of Party Out of Bounds, a history of the Athens music scene.
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And, despite Blackpool's history of being the holiday haunt of the working classes, the Labour Party now shuns it as a venue for its annual conference.
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