Are there more democrats than republicans in this nation?
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youll find out tuesday
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The Democrats may have more members, but there were several middle-of-the-road, true Democrats, elected this time around instead of the Liberals posing as Democrats.  I think there will be desention among the ranks there.  But they don't "rule".  Thank God for the power of VETO!!!!
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No one party "controls" the U.S. Senate. There are more Republicans sitting in the U.S. Senate right now than Democrats. But each of those Republicans are free agents and capable of voting against the wishes of their party leaders. Also, just because there are fewer Democrats in the Senate right now than Republicans, that doesn't mean that they have no influence over what the Senate produces.
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The Democrats and the Republicans are the two major political parties in this country.  Republicans are universally recognized as more conservative (enact fewer laws that change things radically or even slightly and tax less and interfere with moral issues far more e.g. abortion) than Democrats who are considered much more liberal (tax more to fund many more sweeping changes; a rather laissez faire "anything goes" approach to morality).  The same sort of alignment is found in other countries, take England where the Labor party is the more liberal counterpart of our Democrats.\n\nWithin the Democratic Party there are some conservatives and many middle-of-the-roaders.  Conversely among the Republicans are some liberals and many middle-of-the-roaders as well.  Beginning in the last half of the 20th Century the present party status began to form with the Democrats being gradually considered more and more liberal and the Republicans more and more conservative until by 1980 the present battlelines were drawn. So the question as you asked it doesn't fit exactly . . . There is NO difference between liberals and SOME Democrats and a few Republicans; and there is a huge difference between liberals and other Democrats and even more Republicans.  \n\nThe strangest thing is that up until about 1947 when Harry Truman splintered his party (the Democrats) by standing up for civil rights for the Black servicemen returning from World War II and the Dixiecrats were formed to oppose him, up until that time the Republicans were the liberals and the Democrats were the conservatives with their power bases in the North east and the South respectively.  After all, the most radical change in American life was created during the first Republican administration in history:  Abraham Lincoln's.  \n\nToday the south and the west are the bastions of conservatism and the north east and heavy industrial states are the centers of liberal thought.  Labor unions tend to be the biggest supporters of liberal candidates and business and merchants of the conservative ones.\n\nIn general, Liberals are easily criticized as too eager to tax and too impractical in their legislation, too eager to align with so-called fringe groups (gays and lesbians, for example). Conservatives nowadays are seen as too eager to align themselves with the interests not just of business but especially of big business, too willing to legislate morality, too closely in touch with religious groups that would for example undo Roe vs. Wade. One last comment:  some people call liberals leftists, that is aligned with socialism or even communism; and conservatives right-wingers, that is aligned with the status quo and keeping the rich and powerful, rich and powerful.\n\nIn my opinion the best of both possible worlds is found in the Libertarian Party which espouses very low taxes, strong national defense and simple practical public works projects with no interference in private lives.  Conservative fiscally and on national defense; non-interfering in most other ways.  I hope this helped.  Good luck.
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Coincidently, the democrat party relies far more on huge donations, over 1 million, than does the republican party (opensecrets.org). \nBTW, republicans are far more personally charitable than are democrats, who seem to believe that charity is best handled through govt., of course, after the union bureaucrats get their "cut".
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Blacks are not part of the democratic party any more than whites are part of the republican party. People tend to lean towards the party the more closely matches their views.\nDemocrats tend to give more attention to minority issues than republicans.
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There are 49 Democrats and 49 Republicans, with 2 independents.  But both independents will caucus with the Dems (voting to determine senate leadership), so the control of the Senate will go to the Dems.  For voting purposes, it is pretty much evenly divided, depending on how the independents vote (Lieberman will probably tend Republican on foreign policy matters, Democrat on domestic policy issues).
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As far as demographics go, a majority of registered republicans are undereducated, while most people who associate with the democratic party have a high level of education...\n\n\nnot to mention, look at who the republican's leader is...
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The Redsters are far superior in selling a ticket.\n\nThe democrats only have one unifying element. They are not nor ever will they be Republican.\n\nGo big Red Go
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That more people voted Republican than Democrat.  The Democrats have not yet learned that the country is in fact becoming more conservative each day.  This would not be a problem if the Democrats would run a more moderate candidate with a moderate platform.  The reason this will not happen is Howard Dean is chairman of the Democrat party and will have a liberal platform that only a liberal candidate can even try to sell.
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There are as many good republicans out there as there are "good democrats". If no democrats are good in your eyes, maybe no republicans are good in a democrat's eyes.\nAnd the democrats aren't always the ones pointing fingers. There could easily be a case for the republicans doing that.\n\nSpeaking of childish, isn't it kind of childish to threaten to move if things don't go just how you wanted them to?
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There is indeed more than just republican and democrat. Although there isnt a "christian" political party there are parties that are highly based off of christian beleifs... youll just have to look for them.
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First of all.... Go Democrats~!  \n\n\n      the republicans are running scared you can tell by all the negative answers they are giving you on here.. \nor let me say the 29% that are still behind the republicans
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first it's do not does and big not bid so if we are going to attack let's be articulate and get your facts straight, it is the Republican Party that likes to keep the poor and the middleclass living in fear and causing them to graze like sheep and believing that they are the only party that can save them from the terrorists. The Democratic Party never would have gotten us into this needless war or the incredible mess here at home that the Republicans have succeeded in doing and it is the Republicans who go home to big mansions and only a few of the Democrats that do. You will find that there are more Democrats from humble origins than well-to-do versus the Republicans.
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ALLOT...MOSTLY DEMOCRATES
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Yes, there are many.  I am not a Dem, but know many who are and DO support/favor President Bush - those that take a serious interest in actual legislation and do not swallow media propaganda as truth.
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There are very few differences between the Dems and Reps, just a couple of policy issues. But basically they are the small percentage of the rich and powerful who will do anything to keep it that way. They are working together more then the public likes the believe and they want it that way, it keeps us divided rather then seeing the truth; that they are one party working for one goal.