Buchanan's chief opponent on the statehood bill was a member of his own Democratic Party, Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

They wrote a series of stories after a break-in at Democratic Party offices in the Watergate Office Building in nineteen seventy-two.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

The Democratic Party chose for its presidential candidate a hero of the Civil War -- General Winfield Scott Hancock of Pennsylvania.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

Republicans are fighting to retake Congress from the Democratic Party of President Obama and make gains in state elections.

VOA: special.2010.09.18

Bryan explained that he had to travel, because the Democratic Party did not have enough money to campaign in other ways.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

In putting together his cabinet, President Pierce tried to include men from every group in the Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

She said members of the Democratic Party believe that the people are the basis of all governmental power.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

Historically, the party in the White House -- currently the Democratic Party -- suffers losses in midterm elections.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

Long-time Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter announced he is leaving the Republicans to join the president's Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

The Democratic Party had a much more difficult time choosing a candidate for president in eighteen sixty-eight.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

He was not a good politician. He failed to unite the disputing groups of the Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

He tried to show that his Democratic Party was a national party, while the Republican Party was a party only of the North.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

Van Buren built up the national Democratic Party with the same methods he used to build his political organization in New York state.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

For the first time in eighteen years, the Democratic Party won control of the House of Representatives.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

Its goals were to illegally gather intelligence on the Democratic Party and dishonor opponents of the president.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

They tried to sell the idea that the old general was the only man who could defeat the candidate of the Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

The leaders of the anti-war movement in the north were members of the opposition Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

And Tyler - a Whig - hoped that Calhoun might be able to get him nominated as the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

He was the first Democratic Party candidate to win a presidential election in almost twenty-eight years.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

His speech to both houses of Congress followed a defeat last week for his Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

Three days after the Democratic Party convention closed, the Union won an important military victory.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

Two years later, he became famous by speaking at the Democratic Party's national nominating convention.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

In exchange, Hayes and the Republicans agreed to accept Democratic Party policies on several issues.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

William Jennings Bryan, the leader of the Democratic Party, opposed the take-over of the Philippines.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

And in nineteen twenty, he was the Democratic Party's unsuccessful candidate for vice president.

VOA: special.2011.03.17

Members of the Democratic Party called the raid a plot by the Republican Party.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

The Democratic Party, for the second time, nominated Congressman William Jennings Bryan as president.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

The split could not be healed. Most southern Whigs joined the Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.05.07