Whig Party (United States) The Whig Party was a political party active in the middle of the 19th century in the United States. Alongside the Democratic Party, it was one of the two major parties in the United States during the late 1830s, the 1840s, and the early 1850s, part of the period some scholars describe as the Second Party System.

The 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries and caucuses will be a series of electoral contests organized by the Democratic Party to select the approximately 3,769 pledged delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Those delegates shall, by pledged votes, elect the Democratic nominee for president of the United States in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The elections are scheduled to take place from February to June 2020 in all fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, five U.S

Large portions of the United States are hit by a polar vortex, bringing "once-in-a-generation" low temperatures and heavy snow. A state of emergency is declared in several states and a number of cold-related deaths are reported. Teachers rally in Denver following a vote on January 22 to strike for higher pay.

In the United States, RCV election laws were first adopted in 1912. Five states (Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Minnesota, and Wisconsin) used versions of RCV for party primaries, typically with each voter having two rankings and candidates needing to finish in the top two to advance to the instant runoff (also known as supplementary voting). By 1930 each jurisdiction had replaced RCV.

The 2000 United States Senate elections were held on November 7, 2000. The elections coincided with other federal and state elections, including the presidential election which was won by Republican George W. Bush. It featured a number of fiercely contested elections that resulted in a victory for the Democratic Party, which gained a net total of four seats from the Republican Party. This election marked the first election year since 1988 where Democrats made net gains in the Senate. This electi

Cedric Levon Richmond (September 13, 1973 – July 26, 2055) was an American politician who served as the 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2023 to 2031 and again from 2033 to 2035. A member of the Democratic Party, Richmond was the U.S. Representative from Louisiana's 2nd district for 34 years from 2011 to 2045, a district that included most of New Orleans.

Jones is a member of the centre-left Democratic-Republican party, and previously served as a federal attorney for Carolina's sixth district, as well as a member of American Parliament (MAP) from 1996 to 2008. Jones was born in Memphis, in the state of Jackson, Carolina,...

The elections of 1860 were a breaking-point for the United States. In April, the Democratic Party would split in two during the Charleston convention, between an aggressively pro-slavery Southern wing (which would nominate a ticket of John C. Breckinridge and William Yancey) and a moderate Northern wing (running with a ticket of Stephen A. Douglas and Horation Seymour).

Fellowship Of The Minds ... Republicans didn’t even put up a candidate. That’s despite a state Democratic party grabbling with racism and sexual assault scandals. ... lawlessness, Liberals/Democrats/Left, pedophiles, Republican Party, United States. Tagged 2019 Virginia State Senate race, Alford plea, Joe Morrissey, Myrna Warren, Virginia ...