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.
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.
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.
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 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.
"Polar bears are cool but the beaver played a pivotal role in the history of Canada, " said New Democratic Party MP Pat Martin.
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.
That was the only time in history where you had a party of one Democrat and one Republican.
There is no question that the far right dominates the face of the Republican Party more than any time in recent history.
Hastert has led the House longer than any member of his party in history, yet he is just now becoming a national household word.
But actually we did, you know, drop votes from even our '97 performance, anybody who imagines that we've got a God-given right to be the principal party of opposition isn't looking at history.
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If one party is awarded control of the federal government in 2008, history suggests it should proceed with humility and a nonpartisan spirit long missing from Washington.
For the moment, though, it appears that the extreme right wing is on the verge of securing a degree of power over Congress and the Republican Party that is unprecedented in modern American history.
But history shows it will be an uphill battle for the Bush administration, because the party in control of the White House usually loses congressional seats in the mid-term elections.
Into this maelstrom, Jefferson delivered perhaps the most conciliatory inaugural address in U.S. history, "better liked by our own party than his own, " in the words of Massachusetts Federalist George Cabot.
And of course, her husband, former president Bill Clinton, may be the best fundraiser in Democratic Party history.
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