Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of two major parties in the United States. The party is currently the minority party in the U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, and among state governors. The party also trails in state legislatures as the Republican Party controls 21 legislatures and Democrats control 19. Ten states are divided legislatures. Of the two major U.S. parties, the Democratic Party is to the left of the Republican Party, though its politics are not as consistently leftist as the traditional social democratic and labor parties in much of the rest of the world.

References

Issue Positions

• Excerpts from The Democratic Platform for America approved 2004 Jul., from Speak Out's On the Issues, http://ontheissues.org/Dem_Platform_2004.htm.

History: 1980s-2000s

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• {{note|1}} Michael Moore, Stupid White Men (And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation), Chapter Ten, (P) Regan Books.
• {{note|2}} Ari Melber, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2005 Mar. 26, "Where's the Party At?". The Nation, 2004 Aug. 2, "A People's Democratic Platform".
• {{note|3}} Al Franken and Tom Wolffe, Rolling Stone, 2004 Nov. 17, "The Aftermath". Thomas Frank, New York Review of Books vol. 52 #8, 2005 May 12, "What's the Matter with Liberals?"
• {{note|4}} Jann S. Wenner, Rolling Stone, 2004 Nov. 17, "Why Bush Won".
• {{note|5}} Sasha Abramsky, The Nation for 2005 Apr. 18, "Democrat Killer?".
• {{note|6}}This Week with George Stephanopoulos, interview with Howard Dean, 2005 Jan. 23 Sat., ABC-TV.

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