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Boxer, D-Calif.". Free software available at alphaWorks (IBM's showcase for emerging software technology):. Barbara L. The initial developments of this project include scroll mice and other input devices that sense the user's pulse, monitor his or her facial expressions, and the movement of his or her eyelids. Sen. The technology aims to enable devices to recognize and use natural input, such as facial expressions. Boxer (D-CA)" or, in Associated Press style, "U.S. BlueEyes is the name of a human recognition venture initiated by IBM to allow people to interact with computers in a more natural manner.

Barbara L. The company will retain the right to use certain IBM brand names for an initial period of five years. Sen. IBM will have a 19% stake in Lenovo, which will move its headquarters to New York State and appoint an IBM executive as its chief executive officer. senator from California may be referred to as "U.S. The deal was approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States in March 2005, and completed in May 2005. For example, Barbara Boxer, a Democratic U.S. In 2004, IBM announced the proposed sale of its PC business to Chinese computer maker Lenovo, which is partially owned by the Chinese government, for USD650 million in cash and USD600 million in Lenovo stock.

When identifying an elected representative, the single letter "D" is used to denote a Democrat, followed by a hyphen and an abbreviation of the locale he or she represents. Since that loss, IBM has made major changes in its business activities, shifting its focus significantly away from components and hardware and towards software and services. The abbreviation "Dems" is sometimes used to refer to members of the Party, but unlike "GOP", it is generally not acceptable in formal contexts, such as the text of news articles. On January 19, 1993 IBM announced a USD4.97 billion loss for 1992, which was at that time the largest single-year corporate loss in United States history. In order to avoid the arguably positive connotation of the word "democratic", Republicans will occasionally use "Democrat" as the adjective form, but this is relatively rare and generally regarded as incorrect. Litigation continued until 1983, and had a significant impact on the company's practices. The usual adjective used in connection with the party is "Democratic", e.g., "Democratic Party" or "Democratic candidates", whereas members of the party are "Democrats". The suit alleged that IBM violated the Section 2 of the Sherman Act by monopolizing or attempting to monopolize the general purpose electronic digital computer system market, specifically computers designed primarily for business.

See List of state Democratic Parties in the U.S. IBM in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, on January 17, 1969. However, two of its state Party organizations have different names due to historical mergers and state politics, the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party. v. In most states the Democratic Party is simply known as the "Democratic Party". Department of Justice, which filed a complaint for the case U.S. (Years of birth and death are indicated.). IBM's success in the mid-1960s led to inquiries as to IBM antitrust violations by the U.S.

(Years of birth are indicated.). It was originally known as the IBM System/360 and, in far more modern 64-bit form, is now known as the IBM zSeries (often referred to as "IBM mainframes"). [ref5]. The IBM computer range that earned it its position in the market at that time is still growing today. The Senate did not vote on either proposal. General Electric remains one of the world's largest companies, but no longer operates in the computer market. Reid convinced the Democratic Senators to vote more as a bloc on some important issues, something which forced the Republican majority to abandon its push for Privatization of Social Security and instatement of the so-called "nuclear option" to end judicial filibuster. NCR and Honeywell dropped out of the general mainframe and mini sector and concentrated on lucrative niche markets.

When the 109th Congress convened, the Democratic Senators chose Harry Reid of Nevada as their leader and Richard Durbin of Illinois to replace Reid as their Assistant Minority Leader. Most of those companies are now long gone as IBM competitors, except for Unisys, which is the result of multiple mergers that included UNIVAC and Burroughs. Dean also asserted, of the issue of bipartisanship, that "there are some things we can support the President on", but that the Democrats' should oppose the President's agenda "when he's wrong." [ref10]. When only Burroughs, Univac, NCR and Honeywell produced mainframes, a bit later, people talked of "IBM and the B.U.N.C.H.". Dean sought to move the Democratic strategy away from the establishment of Washington, DC, and bolster support for the party's state and local chapters. People in this business would talk of "IBM and the seven dwarfs", given the much smaller size of the other companies or of their computer divisions. These debates were reflected in the 2005 campaign for chair of the Democratic National Committee, which Howard Dean won over the objections of many party insiders. IBM was the largest of the eight major computer companies (with UNIVAC, Burroughs, Scientific Data Systems, Control Data Corporation, General Electric, RCA and Honeywell) through most of the 1960s.

[ref9] In What's the Matter with Kansas?, commentator Thomas Frank wrote the Democrats needed to return to campaigning on economic populism. Crago), "we couldn't imagine where we could absorb two thousand programmers at IBM when this job would be over someday." IBM would use its experience designing massive, integrated real-time networks with SAGE to design its SABRE airline reservation system, which met with much success. Rethinking the party's position on gun policy became a matter of discussion, brought up by Howard Dean, Bill Richardson, Brian Schweitzer and other Democrats who had won governorships in states where Second Amendment rights were important to many voters. IBM neglected, however, to gain an even more dominant role in the nascent industry by allowing the RAND Corporation to take over the job of programming the new computers, because, according to one project participant (Robert P. One topic of discussion is the party's policies surrounding reproductive rights, especially abortion. More valuable to the company in the long run than the profits, however, was the access to cutting-edge research into digital computers being done under military auspices. Some have suggested moving towards the center to regain seats in the House and Senate and possibly win the presidency in 2008. IBM built fifty-six SAGE computers at the price of $30 million each, and at the peak of the project devoted more than 7,000 employees (20% of its then workforce) to the project.

In this situation, some prominent Democrats - including the party's leaders - began to rethink the party's direction, and a variety of strategies for moving forward were voiced. Working on the SAGE anti-aircraft system, IBM gained access to crucial research being done at MIT, working on the first real-time, digital computer (which included many other advancements such as an integrated video display, magnetic core memory, light guns, the first effective algebraic computer language, analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversion techniques, digital data transmission over telephone lines, duplexing, multiprocessing, and networks). Since then, many Democrats have voiced serious concern over the future of their party. In the 1950s, IBM became a chief contractor for developing computers for the United States Air Force's automated defense systems. Overall, President Bush increased his percentage among Hispanics by 9 percent, from 35 in 2000 to 44 percent in 2004. IBM has donated more than 10,000 pages of archived documents concerning Dehomag to Hohenheim University in Germany and New York University. In 1996, President Clinton won 72 percent of the Latino vote and in 2000 Al Gore won 65 percent of the Latino voters, however in 2004 John Kerry only received 55 percent of the Latino vote. As of 2004 IBM's possible complicity in the Holocaust is the subject of at least one unresolved lawsuit.

Another aspect of the Democratic Party's defeat in 2004 was the apparent loss of overwhelming popularity the party once had with Hispanic voters. The author responded to these claims here. Representatives to force a Congressional debate on the issue when the 109th Congress first convened and in such propose working together to fix problems with the election system. The credibility of Black's book has been questioned, as has its claim that the Holocaust would have been impossible without Dehomag's data processing systems. Barbara Boxer of California and several Democratic U.S. Watson knew of the German regime's activities and was indifferent to any moral issues. Sen. In 2001 author Edwin Black published a book titled IBM and the Holocaust, which alleged that Thomas J.

presidential election controversy and irregularities) The controversies led U.S. Dehomag was taken over by the Nazis in December 1941. (see 2004 U.S. During World War II, IBM's German subsidiary Dehomag (an acronym formed from "German Hollerith Machine Company Ltd") provided the Nazi regime with punch card machines. In Florida, Bev Harris discovered garbage bags full of ballots on which votes had been switched. Over time CTR came to focus purely on the punched card business, and ceased its involvement in the other activities. [ref8] Some voters, especially in Ohio, have alleged that votes in Ohio and other states were illegally suppressed and mistabulated in favor of the Republican candidate, resulting in substantial uncertainty about the actual outcome. The companies that merged to form CTR manufactured a wide range of products, including employee time keeping systems, weighing scales, automatic meat slicers, and most importantly for the development of the computer, punched card equipment.

[ref7] A commonly accepted argument is that the Republicans ran in opposition to gay rights and used state ballot initiatives against same-sex marriage to attract more so-called "values voters" to vote. On February 14, 1924, CTR changed its name to International Business Machines Corporation. [ref6] Some suggested that the Democrats had received too negative a public image and that Republicans exploited that image. Watson Sr., the founder of IBM, became General Manager of CTR in 1914 and President in 1915. Harry Reid (D-Nevada) has asserted that Kerry lost because he did not do enough to reach out to rural citizens. Thomas J. Sen. The president of the Tabulating Machine Corporation at that time was Herman Hollerith, who had founded the company in 1896.

U.S. This company was a merger of the Tabulating Machine Corporation, the Computing Scale Corporation and the International Time Recording Company. [ref5]. It originated as the Computing Tabulating Recording (CTR) Corporation, which was incorporated on June 15, 1911 in Binghamton, New York. Bush, "met the call of duty" in the aftermath of 9/11). IBM's history dates back decades before the development of electronic computers – before that it developed punched card data processing equipment. [ref4] Others said that the Democrats did not have an inspiring story to tell (whereas Republicans touted that their candidate, Pres. There has also been a steadily increasing movement of labour to cheap offshore countries such as India.

In these arguments, the platform adopted at the 2004 Democratic National Convention is sometimes cited; three partisan insiders authored it and mostly vaguely addressing a minimal number of issues across its 56 pages, and with only passing mentions of women's rights, gay rights, environmental protection and other issues that were previously consistent strongholds of the Democratic Party. After posting weaker than expected revenues in the first quarter of 2005, IBM eliminated 14,500 positions from its workforce, predominantly in Europe. Some argued that the Democratic Party had lost Clinton's "vision thing," and lacked clear policies or alternatives. In more recent years there have been a number of broad sweeping cuts to the workforce as IBM attempts to adapt to changing market conditions and a declining profit base. Following the elections of 2004 was debate of why and how the Democrats lost. Historically IBM has had a good reputation of long term staff retention with very little large scale layoffs. However, the Democrats lost the governorship of Missouri and a legislative majority in Georgia - which had once been a Democratic stronghold since Reconstruction. IBM employees won the lawsuit and arrived at a partial settlement, although appeals are still underway.

In the end there were 3,660 Democratic state legislators across the nation to the Republicans' 3,557, and Democrats gained governorships in Louisiana (after a statewide election in 2003), New Hampshire and Montana. In the 1990s, two major pension program changes, including a conversion to a cash balance plan, resulted in an employee class action lawsuit alleging age discrimination. Also, for the first time since Barry Goldwater of Arizona won his first election to the Senate, the Democratic leader of the Senate lost reelection. Alliance@IBM, part of the Communications Workers of America, is trying to organize IBM in the U.S. Republicans gained four seats in the Senate and three seats in the House of Representatives. The company has traditionally resisted labor union organizing, although unions represent some IBM workers outside the United States. Kerry narrowly lost both the popular and electoral vote. IBM is the only technology company ranked in Working Mother Magazine's Top 10 for 2004.

Bush and the Republican Party, the Democrats were not victorious nationally. More recently, IBM received a 100% rating on the Corporate Equality Index released by the Human Rights Campaign starting in 2003, the second year of the report. Despite strong campaigning and the faltering image of George W. IBM's efforts to promote workforce diversity and equal opportunity date back at least to World War I, when the company hired disabled veterans. That year, Democrats generally campaigned on surmounting the jobless recovery, exiting Iraq, and their own proposals for policies on counterterrorism. IBM. Bush's administration to find weapons of mass destruction, mounting combat casualties in Iraq, and the lack of any end point for the War on Terror were also issues in the American national elections. IBM's open source involvement has not been trouble-free, however; see SCO v.

By 2004, the failure of George W. This includes over 300 Linux kernel developers. Howard Dean of Vermont and Senatorial candidate Erskine Bowles of North Carolina) began to refine their positions on free trade and some even question their past support for it. The company invests billions of dollars in services and software based on Linux. In 2003-2004, with layoffs of American workers occurring in various industries due to the "shipping of jobs abroad," some Democrats (including John Kerry, ex-Gov. IBM's culture has been recently influenced by the open source movement. John Kerry, though, received the nomination because he was widely seen as more "electable" than the often blunt Dean. In 2004 another WorldJam was conducted in which more than 52,000 employees participated to exchange best practices for 72 hours.

Clark and, in particular, Dean both had immense grassroots support. "Dedication to every client's success", "Innovation that matters - for our company and the world", "Trust and personal responsibility in all relationships". Howard Dean of Vermont, another opponent of the war and a critic of the Democratic establishment, was the frontrunner leading into the Democratic primary elections. The company values have been updated to reflect modern business, marketplace and employee views. Ex-Gov. In 2003 the IBM company embarked on an ambitious project to rewrite its company values through a world-jam over the internet involving more than 50,000 employees over 3 days. Wesley Clark, an opponent of the war in Iraq, was the frontrunner for the nomination. But by the 1990s, IBM relaxed these codes; the dress and behavior of its employees does not differ appreciably from that of their counterparts in large technology companies.

For a time, Gen. For most of the 20th century, a blue suit, white shirt and dark tie was the public uniform of IBM employees. The Democrats began fielding Presidential candidates as early as 2002 Dec., when Gore announced he would not run in 2004. In addition, middle and top management would often be enlisted to give direct support to salesmen in the process of making sales to important customers. [ref3]. Traditionally, many of its executives and general managers would be chosen from its sales force. In considering that most Americans had become more concerned about corporate crime and other economic issues, the election was preceded with widespread debate over how and why the Democrats lost. IBM has often been described as having a sales-centric or a sales-oriented business culture.

Also, while Democrats gained governorships in New Mexico (where Bill Richardson was elected), Arizona (Janet Napolitano) and Wyoming (Dave Freudenthal), other Democrats lost governorships in South Carolina (Jim Hodges), Alabama (Don Siegelman) and, for the first time in more than a century, Georgia (Roy Barnes). Starting from the date of the acquisition, Lenovo will have five years' use of the IBM and "Think" trademarks. House of Representatives and three seats (Georgia as Max Cleland was unseated, Minnesota as Paul Wellstone died and his succeeding Democratic candidate lost the election, and Missouri as Jean Carnahan was unseated) in the Senate, failing to regain the majority in the House and losing their majority in the Senate. IBM will maintain a significant (about 19%) stake in the new division. The Democratic Party lost a few seats in the U.S. The new division will be headquartered in New York. With job losses and bankruptcies across regions and industries increasing in 2001 and 2002, the Democrats generally campaigned on the issue of economic recovery. As of 10 December 2004, IBM has finalized negotiations to sell its PC division to China-based Lenovo.

Bush signed it into law. [4], [5]. In the wake of the financial frauds of Enron and other corporations, Congressional Democrats were integral in pushing for and developing a legal overhaul of business accounting with the intention of preventing further accounting fraud; Congress unanimously approved it and Pres. Protection of the company's intellectual property has grown into a business in its own right, generating over $10 billion dollars [3] to the bottom line for the company during this period. The Democrats were split over the 2003 invasion of Iraq and increasingly expressed concerns about both the justification and progress of the War on Terrorism and the domestic effects including challenges to civil liberties and privacy from the USA PATRIOT Act. [2]. Daschle pushed for his party to approve what are arguably two of the most controversial and inflammatory (to opponents) measures the Senate has ever approved: the USA PATRIOT Act and the invasion of Iraq. That twelve-year period has resulted in over 29,000 patents for which IBM is the primary assignee.

All but one Congressional Democrat voted with their Republican colleagues to authorize President Bush's 2001 invasion of Afghanistan. patents than any other company. In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, the nation's focus changed to issues of national security and increasing isolation of the United States as the sole remaining and increasingly proactive superpower. In every year from 1993 until 2004, IBM has been granted significantly more U.S. Tom Daschle of South Dakota continued to lead the Senate Democrats with an agenda of compromise. In recent years IBM has steadily increased its patent portfolio, which is valuable for cross-licensing with other companies. Sen. This program will be implemented over the coming years.

Jim Jeffords (Vermont) changed party affiliation from Republican to independent, which effectively returned majority privileges back the Democratic Senators. In 2002, IBM announced the beginning of a $10 billion program to research and implement the infrastructure technology necessary to be able to provide supercomputer-level resources "on demand" to all businesses as a metered utility. However, that changed when Sen. . The Democratic Senators went from the majority in the 106th Congress to a split minority in the 107th Congress. In the USA, they have earned four Turing Awards, five National Medals of Technology, and five National Medals of Science, and outside the USA, many equivalents. Winning either Florida or New Hampshire would have given Gore enough electoral votes to win the presidency. IBM employees have won five Nobel Prizes.

In Florida, Nader received 97,000 votes; Bush defeated Gore by a mere 1,000. IBM Research has eight laboratories, all located in the Northern Hemisphere, with five of those locations outside of the United States. They pointed to the states of New Hampshire (4 electoral college votes) and Florida (57 electoral college votes), where Nader's total votes exceeded Governor Bush's margin of victory. That total includes about 350 Distinguished Engineers and 60 IBM Fellows, its most senior engineers. Some election observers blamed the Nader candidacy for Gore's defeat. The company is increasingly focused on business solution driven consulting, services and software, with emphasis also on high value chips and hardware technologies; as of 2005 it employs about 195,000 technical professionals. On election day, Gore won the popular vote by just over 500,000 votes, but lost in the Electoral College by four votes. In 2002 the company strengthened its business advisory capabilities by acquiring the consulting arm of professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Many such critics also opposed Gore on the basis of votes he had made while serving in Congress, which seemed to indicate that he had been anti-abortion, anti-gun control, and anti-tax, views which he later reversed. Palmisano was elected CEO on January 29, 2002 after having led IBM's Global Services, and helping it to become a business with a $100 billion in backlog in 2004 [1]. Bush, the candidate of the Republican Party, clearly disagreed on issues such as abortion, tax cuts, gun control, environmentalism, foreign policy, public education, support for trade unions, alternative energy research, global warming, and affirmative action, some critics -- Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader in particular -- asserted that Bush and Gore were too similar because they held the same views on free trade, the "War on Drugs," a refusal to eliminate what critics have called corporate welfare, reductions in government-provided social welfare, and defense spending. Samuel J. Although Gore and Governor George W. In recent years, services and consulting revenues have been larger than those from manufacturing. Having previously upset many members of his party's liberal wing by voicing his full support of the North American Free Trade Agreement and a 1996 welfare reform bill that, some claimed, destroyed the welfare system, Gore was seen by some as further antagonizing the left in his selection of Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut as his running mate. It has engineers and consultants in over 170 countries and development laboratories located all over the world, in all segments of computer science and information technology; some of them are pioneers in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.

In the 2000 presidential election, the Democrats ran then-Vice President Al Gore, a founding member and former chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council. With over 330,000 employees worldwide and revenues of $96 billion (figures from 2004), IBM is the largest information technology company in the world, and one of the few with a continuous history dating back to the 19th century. This party believed that centrist Democrats were not safeguarding progressivism in government. The company manufactures and sells computer hardware, software, and services. The far-left Green Party emerged as a vehicle for resentment against the Democrats in the 2000 election. International Business Machines Corporation (IBM, or colloquially, Big Blue) NYSE: IBM (incorporated June 15, 1911, in operation since 1888) is headquartered in Armonk, NY, USA. Democrats challenged the validity of such critiques, citing the important Democratic role in pushing progressive reforms in many states and localities. FairUCE: A spam filter that stops spam by verifying sender identity instead of filtering content.

Some liberals and progressives felt alienated from the Democratic Party, which they felt had become unconcerned with the interests of common people. (This is an ETTK technology.). In addition to its perceived abandonment of labor unions, Democratic candidates' acceptance and use of large sums of corporate donations for campaign finances; the inconsistency of some Democratic officeholders (including Democratic leaders) on environmental, financial, laboral and other issues that were core to the party; and the D.N.C.'s, D.L.C.'s and N.D.N.'s acceptance of monied interests, all unintentionally contributed to a negative public image of the Democratic Party in some people's eyes. Policy Management for Autonomic Computing: A policy-based autonomic management infrastructure that simplifies the automation of IT and business processes. When the New Democrat movement attempted to move the Democratic agenda in favor of a more centrist approach, prominent Democrats from the moderate and conservative factions (such as Chairman Terry McAuliffe) assumed leadership of the party and its direction. Database File Archive And Restoration Management: An application for archiving and restoring hard disk files whose file references are stored in a database. Those on the left of the party were dismayed at this agreement as well. IBM Performance Simulator for Linux on POWER: A tool that provides users of Linux on Power a set of performance models for IBM's POWER processors.

Labor unions, which had been steadily losing membership since the 1960s, found they had also lost political clout inside the Democratic Party: Clinton enacted the NAFTA free trade agreement with Canada and Mexico over the strong objection of the unions. [7] [8]. President Bill Clinton, who defeated the incumbent President Bush in 1992, implemented a balanced federal budget and welfare reform, traditionally Republican causes. Examples from Wikipedia. In the 1990s the Democratic Party re-invigorated itself, in part by moving to the right on economic and social policy. History Flow Visualization Application: A tool for visualizing dynamic, evolving documents and the interactions of multiple collaborating authors. This includes organized labor, educators, environmentalists, supporters of civil rights, progressive taxation proponents, gays, lesbians, blacks, Hispanics, Jews, Native Americans, supporters of gun control, pro-choice groups and other opponents of the social conservatism favored by many Republicans. Flexible Internet Evaluation Report Architecture: A highly flexible architecture for the design, display, and reporting of Internet surveys.

With the Party retaining left-of-center supporters as well as supporters holding moderate or conservative views on some issues, the Democrats became generally a catch all party with widespread appeal to most opponents of the Republicans. Now Motient. In response to these losses, the Democratic Leadership Council worked to move the Party more towards the ideological center. ARDIS mobile packet network, a joint venture with Motorola. Bush. AT&T Business Internet, formerly IBM Global Network, formerly Advantis (joint venture with Sears). W. Prodigy, formerly a joint venture with Sears.

Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis also lost in 1988 to Reagan Vice-President George H. ScanSoft now sell and support IBM's speech technology products under the ViaVoice brand. The 1980s are often seen as the era in which the old New Deal coalition finally collapsed as Reagan handily defeated former Vice-President (under Carter) and Minnesota Senator Walter Mondale, a New Deal stalwart, in 1984. IBM continues to develop storage solutions, including Tape Backup, Storage software, etc. After the election of Republican President Ronald Reagan in 1980, Democrats who supported many conservative policies were called "Reagan Democrats." Many in the so-called "Reagan Democrats" faction of the party eventually joined the Republican Party. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies now provides many of the hardware storage solutions formerly provided by IBM, including IBM Harddrives & The Microdrive. In 1980, Carter lost after one term to Ronald Reagan. IBM Printing Systems now competes with Lexmark.

Mistrust of the administration, complicated by a combination of economic recession and inflation, sometimes called "stagflation", led to Ford's loss in 1976 to Democrat Jimmy Carter, a former governor of Georgia. Lexmark has sold its keyboard and typewriter businesses. Ford soon pardoned Nixon. Lexmark (keyboards, typewriters, and printers). Thus, when Nixon resigned, Ford became the first President in the nation's history to have been neither elected President nor Vice-President. Taligent, a joint software venture with Apple Computer. After Agnew resigned, Nixon appointed Gerald Ford a Republican House Member from Michigan as his replacement. December, 2004 Lenovo acquires IBM Personal Systems Group, 10 000 employees and $9 billion in revenue.

Prior to that, his Vice-President, Spiro Agnew had been forced out by a separate scandal. 1958 Time Equipment Division is sold to the Simplex Time Recorder Company. Nixon, because of the Watergate scandal, had been forced to resign the presidency in 1974. 1942 Ticketograph Division is sold to the National Postal Meter Company. By 1976, however, things had changed dramatically. 1934 Dayton Scale Division is sold to the Hobart Manufacturing Company. McGovern was defeated in a landslide by incumbent Republican President Richard Nixon, the former winning only Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. August, 2005 DWL.

In 1972, the Democrats nominated South Dakota Senator George McGovern as the party's presidential candidate on a platform which advocated, among other things, withdrawal from Vietnam and a guaranteed minimum income for all Americans. July 2005 PureEdge. Defeated Democrat Hubert Humphrey's electoral votes came mainly from the Northern states, marking a dramatic shift from the 1948 election 20 years earlier, when the losing Republican candidate's electoral votes were mainly concentrated in the Northern states. May 2005 Gluecode. The degree to which the Southern Democrats had abandoned the party became evident in the 1968 Presidential election when every former Confederate state except Texas voted for either Republican Richard Nixon or independent George Wallace, the latter a former Southern Democrat. February 2005 Corio crio for $211 million. Southern Democrats took notice of the fact that 1964 Republican Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater had voted against the Civil Rights Act (an unusual departure from his previous support for such legislation), and in the presidential election of 1964, Goldwater's only electoral victories outside his home state of Arizona were in the states of the deep south. October, 2004 Systemcorp.

The Republicans began their Southern strategy, which aimed to woo the conservative Southern Democrats. August, 2004 Venetica. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964. July, 2004 Cyanea Systems. The party's dramatic reversal on civil rights issues culminated when Democratic President Lyndon B. July, 2004 Alphablox. On the other hand, African-Americans, who had traditionally given strong support to the Republican party since its inception as the "anti-slavery party", shifted to the Democratic party due to its New Deal economic opportunities and support for civil rights. April, 2004 Candle Corp., Daksh eServices in India.

Over the next few years, many white Democrats in the "Solid South" drifted away from the party. March, 2004 Logicalis Australia and Logical CSI New Zealand, renamed to Cerulean Solutions in April 2005. Senator, would later join the Republican party). 2004 Maersk Data & DMData. When Harry Truman's platform displayed support for civil rights and anti-segregation laws during the 1948 Democratic National Convention, many Southern Democratic delegates split from the party and formed the "Dixiecrats", led by South Carolina governor Strom Thurmond (who, as a U.S. July. The New Deal Coalition began to fracture as more Democratic leaders voiced support for civil rights, upsetting the party's base of Southern Democrats. 2003 Presence Online, Aptrix.

This resolution later passed during the 1948 national convention as part of a larger resolution endorsing civil rights. 2003 Rational Software Corporation for $2.1 billion. After considerable debate, the resolution failed by a single vote. October, 2003 CrossAccess. In 1924 at the Democratic national convention, a resolution denouncing the white-supremacist Ku Klux Klan was introduced. 2002 PricewaterhouseCoopers' Consulting for $3.5 billion (recalculated by IBM in August 2003 as $3.9 billion). This united voter base allowed Democrats to control the government for much of the next 30 years. January, 2002 Crossworlds.

His policies soon paid off by uniting a diverse collection of Democratic voters called the New Deal Coalition, which included labor unions, minorities (most significantly, Catholics and Jews), liberals, and the traditional base of Southern whites. 2001 Informix Software (a purchase of assets rather than a true acquisition) for $1.0 billion. Roosevelt's New Deal programs focused on job-creation through public works projects as well as on social welfare programs such as Social Security. 1999 Sequent Computer Systems for $810 million. (Thirty years later, the party did find itself largely divorced from its southern conservative wing, but with much less satisfaction at the result than Roosevelt might have anticipated.). 1999 Mylex Corporation. However, Roosevelt's attempt to purge the party of its conservatives failed when all five senators won re-election despite Roosevelt's efforts. 1998 CommQuest Technologies.

Frustrated by the conservative wing of his own party, Roosevelt made an attempt to rid himself of it; in 1938, he actively campaigned against five incumbent conservative Democratic senators. 1997 Unison Software. After winning re-election in 1936, Roosevelt claimed a mandate and embarked on an ambitious legislative program he termed the "New Deal." He was stymied, however, by an alliance of Republicans and conservative Democrats. 1997 Software Artistry for $200 million. Roosevelt won a landslide victory in the election of 1932, campaigning on a platform of "relief, recovery, and reform". 1995 Tivoli Systems for $750 million. The stock market crash of 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression set the stage for a more interventionist government and Franklin D. 1995 Lotus Development Corporation for $3.5 billion.

That reign was interrupted in the election of 1912 when Theodore Roosevelt's independent Bull Moose candidacy split the Republican vote, giving Woodrow Wilson a popular plurality and victory in the electoral college, but Republican Warren Harding regained the White House in the election of 1920. 1986 RealCom Communications Corporation. Bryan, perhaps best known for his "Cross of Gold" speech delivered at the 1896 convention, waged a vigorous campaign attacking Eastern monied interests, but lost to Republican William McKinley in an election which was to prove decisive: the Republicans controlled the presidency for 28 of the following 36 years. 1984 ROLM. In the presidential election of 1896, widely regarded as a political realignment, Democrats favoring Free Silver defeated their conservative counterparts and succeeded in nominating William Jennings Bryan for the presidency (as did the agrarian Populist Party). August, 1959 Pierce Wire Recorder Corporation. Tilden in the election of 1876. 1941 Munitions Manufacturing Corporation.

In the election of 1884, Grover Cleveland, the reforming Democratic Governor of New York, won the Presidency, a feat he repeated in 1892, having lost (but won the popular vote) in the election of 1888 (as had Samuel J. (See: IBM Electromatic typewriter). Though Republicans continued to control the White House until 1885, the Democrats remained competitive, especially in the mid-Atlantic and lower Midwest, and controlled the House of Representatives for most of that period. 1933 Electromatic Typewriters Inc. Once Reconstruction ended, and the disenfranchisement of blacks was re-established, the region was known as the "Solid South" for nearly a century because it reliably voted Democratic and there was, in many places, effectively only one party, there being no significant Republican presence. 1932 National Counting Scale Company. The Democrats were shattered by the war but nevertheless benefited from white Southerners' resentment of Reconstruction and consequent hostility to the Republican Party. 1930 Automatic Accounting Scale Company.

From 1856 onward, the Democratic Party's main opposition has come from the modern Republican Party. 1924 C-T-R renamed IBM. During the war, Northern Democrats fractured into two factions, War Democrats, who supported the military policies of President Abraham Lincoln, and Copperheads, who strongly opposed them. 1921 Ticketograph Company (of Chicago). As a result, the Democrats went down to defeat with the election of Republican Abraham Lincoln, a link in the chain of events leading up to the Civil War. 1921 Pierce Accounting Machine Company (asset purchase). presidential election, 1860). 1917 C-T-R opens in Canada as IBM.

Democrats in the Northern states opposed this new trend, and at the 1860 nominating convention the Party split and nominated two candidates (see U.S. 1917 American Automatic Scale Company acquired by Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R) as International Scale Company. In the 1850s, following the disintegration of the Whig Party, the Democratic Party became increasingly divided, with its Southern wing staunchly advocating the expansion of slavery into new territories, in opposition to the newly founded Republican Party, which sought to prohibit such expansion. 1911 Tabulating Machine Company acquired by Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R). From 1833 to 1856, the Democratic Party was opposed chiefly by the Whig Party. 1911 International Time Recording Company acquired by Computing-Time-Recording Company (C-T-R). The Jacksonian "Democratic-Republicans" soon became known as simply "Democrats," and the Democratic Party was formed from the Andrew Jackson-led "Democratic-Republican" faction of the old Republican Party. 1911 Computing Scale Company acquired by Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R).

The coalition that Jackson built was the foundation of the subsequent Democratic Party. 1908 Syracuse Time Recording Company acquired by International Time Recording Company. Following his defeat in the election of 1824 despite having a plurality of the popular vote, Andrew Jackson set about building a political coalition strong enough to defeat President John Quincy Adams in the election of 1828. 1907 Dey Time Registers acquired by International Time Recording Company. The Presidency of Andrew Jackson, however, destroyed the unity of the Party, with the forming the Democratic-Republican faction, opposed by the National Republicans, led by John Quincy Adams. 1902 Bundy Manufacturing Company acquired by International Time Recording Company. After the disintegration of the Federalist Party, the Democratic-Republicans were the only major party in American politics. 1901 Detroit Automatic Scale Company acquired by Computing Scale Company.

(Today, this party is usually referred to as the "Democratic-Republican Party" to avoid confusion). 1901 Dayton Moneyweight Scale Company acquire by Computing Scale Company. The Democratic Party's origins lie in the original Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1794. 1901 Chicago Time-Register Company acquire by International Time Recording Company. Senate races (Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee), gubernatorial races (Democratic Governors Association), and state legislative races (Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee). 1900 Willard & Frick Manufacturing Company (Rochester) acquired by International Time Recording Company. House races (Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee), U.S. 1899 Standard Time Stamp Company acquired by Bundy Manufacturing Company.

The Democratic Party also has fundraising and strategy committees for U.S. 1896 Tabulating Machine Company incorporated. The current chair of the DNC is Howard Dean. 1896 Detroit Automatic Scale Company incorporated. This structure can be considered the counterpart of the Republican National Committee (RNC) and Republican state and local organizations. 1894 Willard & Frick Manufacturing Company (Rochester, New York) incorporated. counties (though in some states, Party organization lower than the state-level is arranged by legislative districts). 1893 Dey Patents Company (Dey Time Registers) incorporated.

state and most U.S. 1891 Computing Scale Company incorporated. There are similar committees in every U.S. 1889 Bundy Manufacturing Company incorporated. It is responsible for developing and promoting the Democratic political platform, as well as coordinating fundraising and election strategy. Patents). The Democratic National Committee (DNC) provides national leadership for the United States Democratic Party. (Reference: USPTO Releases Annual List of Top 10 Organizations Receiving Most U.S.

For more information on how American political parties are organized, see Politics of the United States.. IBM received 3,248 patents that year. Democratic campaign rhetoric is full of symbolic references to these achievements.". In 2004, for the twelfth consecutive year, IBM was awarded the greatest number of patents by the USPTO. Year after year, the Democrats took ideas that were considered impractical and converted them into programs considered to be necessities by many Americans. It has been calculated that, if the Rochester, Minnesota facility that produces the machine were independent, it would be the third largest computer company in the world. Cohen of Philadelphia, said, "One cannot fully understand Democratic policy proposals unless one understands the past. It was the first successful 64-bit machine.

A Democratic activist over the last four decades, and a delegate to the 2004 Democratic National Convention, State Representative Mark B. The IBM iSeries minicomputer (in its 24-year history also variously known as i5, AS/400 and System/38) is the world's largest-selling computer family, if PC-type machines are excluded. citizens, progressive taxation, and an internationalist foreign policy). IBM agreed to sell its PC division to Lenovo in December 2004 and, when the sale is complete, will come out of the business of manufacturing / designing / selling PCs, the business which it created in 1981. Kennedy), programs (Social Security, minimum wage, Medicare) and goals (expanded health insurance, greater incomes for average U.S. The IBM PC was introduced on August 12, 1981; Microsoft and Intel became monopoly suppliers of two of the key components of PC-compatible systems. Roosevelt, John F. Whilst IBM did not invent the personal computer, architectures cloned from its design for the IBM PC (which relied on third-party componentry) became the industry standard, and are now often simply called the PC.

The Democratic Party draws on its history of politicians (Franklin D. Sexual orientation was added to the nondiscrimination policy in 1984. In the media, Democrats (and states which consistently vote Democratic) have relatively recently been depicted as blue, while Republicans, and the states in which they dominate, as red. In 1953, IBM published the first US corporate mandate on equal employment opportunity, stating that the company would hire people based on their ability, "regardless of race, color or creed". From 1995 until 2004 there was some confusion among voters, as the Democratic ticket was marked with the Statue of Liberty, and it seemed that the Libertarians were using a donkey. In 1944, IBM was the first corporation to support the United Negro College Fund. Missouri Libertarians instead used the Liberty Bell until 1995, when the mule became Missouri's state animal. IBM also made clocks until they sold their time division in 1958.

This meant that when Libertarian candidates received ballot access in Missouri in 1976, they could not use the Statue of Liberty, their national symbol, as the ballot emblem. From 1942 to 1944 IBM was one of nine companies contracted by the US Government to produce M1 Carbine rifles; these are now sought-after antiques. For the majority of the 20th Century, Missouri Democrats used the Statue of Liberty as their ballot emblem. [6]. This symbol still appears on Kentucky and Indiana ballots. The problem lies with extermination camps, about which there were already a lot of war rumours, but nothing that could be confirmed or inferred formally before their discovery by allies in 1945. In the early 20th century, the traditional symbol of the Democratic Party in Midwestern states such as Indiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma and Ohio was the rooster, as opposed to the Republican eagle. Note however that concentration camps are a perfectly legal war disposition regulated by the Geneva convention.

The DNC's official logo, pictured above, depicts a stylized kicking donkey. was aware of their use. Since then, the donkey has been widely used as a symbol of the Party, though unlike the Republican elephant, the donkey has never been officially adopted as the Party's logo. Watson, Sr. On January 19, 1870, a political cartoon by Thomas Nast appearing in Harper's Weekly titled "A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" for the first time symbolized the Democratic Party as a donkey. It has been alleged by a journalist that IBM president Thomas J. Keeping that in mind, there are several ideological groups widely recognized within the modern-day Democratic Party:. From 1933 to 1944, IBM punch card machines were installed at various German concentration camps.

It should be noted that defining the views of any "faction" of any political party, especially a major political party in the United States, is difficult at best, and that any attempt to apply labels within a single political party is no more effective than the application of broad labels to political parties as a whole. They will have the same treatment, the same responsibilities and the same opportunities for advancement.". The following will give readers a summary of the position expressed in the platforms that the Democratic Party adopted in 2000 and 2004. wrote: "Men and women will do the same kind of work for equal pay. However, it is important to give researchers and other readers a general idea of a particular party's position on the issues. Watson Sr. Some members may disagree with one or more plank of his or her party's platform. Thomas J.

There is always debate within either American major political party. IBM began hiring women to work as professional systems service staff in 1935. The principles and values of any political party - especially one as factional as the Democratic Party - are difficult to define and apply generally to all members of the party. The first black employee was hired in 1899 by the Computing Scale Corporation (as it was known at the time). . While the floppy disk is rapidly falling into disuse, the infamous Control-Alt-Delete keystroke (David Bradley, 2001: "I invented it, but it was Bill that made it famous"), also invented at IBM, is still frequently used on PCs running Windows operating systems. (See that article for a full discussion of the various meanings of the term). IBM invented many of the core technologies used in all forms of computing, including the first hard disk drive and the Winchester hard disk drive, the cursor (on computer screens), Dynamic RAM (DRAM), the relational database, Thin Film recording heads, RISC architecture, the Scanning Tunneling Microscope, and the floppy disk.

it is often referred to as the more "liberal" party. Software Group groups its products into five brands: DB2 (information management), Rational (software development lifecycle), Lotus (collaboration), Tivoli (systems management and security) and WebSphere (application integration and middleware). In the U.S. IBM's Software Group, if it were a separate entity, would be the second largest software company in the world, behind only Microsoft in total revenue. 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. The IBM Logo was designed by Paul Rand. Of the two major U.S.

Ten states are divided legislatures. The party also trails in state legislaturesas the Republican Party controls 31 legislatures and Democrats control 19. Senate, House of Representatives, and among United States Governors. The Party is currently (as of 2005) the minority party in the U.S.

The Democratic Party is one of two major political parties in the United States. senator from Ohio. Young (1889–1984), U.S. Stephen M.

senator from Texas. Ralph Yarborough (1903–1996), U.S. senator from Pennsylvania. Harris Wofford, U.S.

senator from New Jersey. Harrison Williams, U.S. Doug Wilder, (1931) Governor of Virginia, candidate for Democratic nomination for president, current independent Mayor of Richmond, Virginia. senator from Minnesota.

Paul Wellstone (1944–2002), U.S. representative from Arizona, candidate for Democratic nomination for president. Morris "Mo" Udall, U.S. senator from Massachusetts, candidate for Democratic nomination for president.

Paul Tsongas (1941–1997), U.S. Senator in history (from South Carolina), later became a member of the Republican Party. Strom Thurmond (1902–2003), the oldest serving U.S. Taney (1777–1864), Chief Justice of the United States.

Roger B. senator from Georgia. Herman Talmadge (1913–2002), U.S. senator from Missouri.

Stuart Symington (1901–1988), U.S. senator from Mississippi. John Stennis (1901–1995), U.S. senator from Alabama, nominee for Vice President of the United States.

John Sparkman (1899–1985), U.S. senator from Illinois, candidate for Democratic nomination for president. Paul Simon (1928–2003), U.S. senator from Tennessee.

Jim Sasser, U.S. senator from Georgia. (1897–1971), U.S. Russell Jr.

Richard B. Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), First Lady. senator from Michigan. Don Riegle, U.S.

senator from Connecticut. Abraham Ribicoff (1910–1998), U.S. Sam Rayburn (1882–1961), Speaker of the House. senator from Wisconsin.

William Proxmire, U.S. senator from Rhode Island. Claiborne Pell, U.S. senator from Rhode Island.

John Pastore, U.S. Tip O'Neill (1912–1994), Speaker of the House. Frank O'Bannon (1930–2003), Governor of Indiana. senator from Georgia.

Sam Nunn, U.S. senator from Maine, nominee for Vice President of the United States, United States Secretary of State. Edmund Muskie (1914–1996), U.S. senator from New York.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927–2003), U.S. senator from Utah. Frank Moss (1911–2003), U.S. senator from Oregon.

Wayne Morse (1900–1974), U.S. senator from Maine. George Mitchell, U.S. senator from Ohio for 18 years.

Howard Metzenbaum, U.S. representative from Massachusetts for 43 years, Speaker of the House. McCormack (1891–1980), U.S. John W.

senator from Arkansas for 34 years. John McClellan, U.S. senator from Minnesota, candidate for Democratic nomination for president. Eugene McCarthy, U.S.

senator from Montana for 24 years, Senate Majority Leader for 16 years. Mike Mansfield (1903–2001), U.S. senator from Louisiana for 39 years. Long (1918–2003), U.S.

Russell B. senator from Louisiana, candidate for Democratic nomination for president. Huey Long (1893–1935) Governor of Louisiana, U.S. Hamilton Lewis (1863-1939), Senator from Illinois and first Whip of the United States Senate.

J. senator from Ohio for 12 years, Governor of Ohio for eight years. Frank Lausche (1895–1990), U.S. Richard Lamm (1935), Governor of Colorado from 1975 to 1987.

senator from New York, candidate for Democratic nomination for president. attorney general, U.S. Kennedy (1925–1968), U.S. Robert F.

Barbara Jordan (1936–1996), Congresswoman from Texas. senator from Louisiana for 25 years. Bennett Johnston, U.S. senator from Washington for 30 years, candidate for Democratic nomination for president.

Henry "Scoop" Jackson (1912–1983) U.S. Cordell Hull (1871–1955), Secretary of State. senator from Florida for 26 years. Holland (1892–1971), U.S.

Spessard L. senator from Arizona for 42 years. Hayden (1877–1972), U.S. Carl T.

senator from Colorado, candidate for Democratic nomination for president. Gary Hart, U.S. senator from Tennessee for 18 years. (1907–1998), U.S.

Albert Gore, Sr. senator from Ohio for 24 years, candidate for Democratic nomination for president. John Glenn, U.S. Representative from Missouri, former House Minority Leader, candidate for Democratic nomination for president.

Dick Gephardt (1941), former U.S. senator from Arkansas for 29 years. William Fulbright (1905–1995), U.S. J.

senator from Kentucky for 25 years. Wendell Ford, U.S. senator from North Carolina for 20 years. Sam Ervin (1896–1985), U.S.

senator from Mississippi for 36 years. James Eastland (1904–1986), U.S. senator from Missouri for 27 years; nominee for vice president in 1972 (resigned from ticket). Tom Eagleton, U.S.

Supreme Court justice for 36 years. Douglas (1898–1980), U.S. William O. Daley (1902–1976), mayor of Chicago, Illinois.

Richard J. senator from California for 24 years, candidate for Democratic nomination for president. Alan Cranston (1914–2000), U.S. Mario Cuomo (1932), former Governor of New York.

Senator from Georgia. Max Cleland, (1942), former U.S. Champ Clark (1850–1921), Speaker of the House. senator from Idaho for 24 years, candidate for Democratic nomination for president.

Frank Church (1924–1984), U.S. senator from Florida for 18 years, governor of Florida. Lawton Chiles, U.S. ambassador to India.

Dick Celeste, Governor of Ohio, U.S. senator from Nevada for 24 years. Howard Cannon, U.S. Jane Byrne, first female mayor of a major city.

senator from North Dakota for 32 years. Burdick, U.S. Quentin N. senator from Arkansas for 24 years.

Dale Bumpers, governor of Arkansas, U.S. Pat Brown (1905–1996), Governor of California, candidate for Democratic nomination for president. Supreme Court. Louis Brandeis (1856–1941), associate justice of the U.S.

senator from Texas, nominee for Vice President of the United States, United States Secretary of the Treasury. Lloyd Bentsen, U.S. senator from Indiana for 18 years, candidate for Democratic nomination for president. Birch Bayh, U.S.

Bruce Babbitt, Governor of Arizona and United States Secretary of the Interior, candidate for Democratic nomination for president. Reubin Askew, Governor of Florida, candidate for Democratic nomination for president. senator from New Mexico for 24 years. Clinton Anderson, U.S.

Carl Albert (1908–2000), Speaker of the House for six years (1971-1977). Mark Warner (1954), governor of Virginia. Tom Vilsack (1950), governor of Iowa, chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council. Antonio Villaraigosa, mayor of Los Angeles, California.

Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of New York, candidate for governor of New York. congresswoman from New York, Ranking Member of the House Rules Committee. Louise Slaughter (1929), U.S. Al Sharpton (1954), civil rights activist, candidate for Democratic nomination for president.

senator from New York, chairman of Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Charles Schumer (1950), U.S. Bill Richardson (1947), governor of New Mexico, former Energy Secretary. Harry Reid (1939), Senate Minority Leader from Nevada.

Nancy Pelosi (1940), House Minority Leader from California. Martin O'Malley, mayor of Baltimore, candidate for governor of Maryland. senator from Illinois. Barack Obama (1961), U.S.

congresswoman from Georgia. Cynthia McKinney (1955), U.S. Norman Mineta (1931), Secretary of Transportation, only Democrat in the Bush cabinet. senator from Vermont.

Patrick Leahy (1940), U.S. congressman from Ohio, candidate for Democratic nomination for president. Dennis Kucinich (1946), U.S. senator from Massachusetts, candidate for Democratic nomination for president.

Ted Kennedy (1932), U.S. Jesse Jackson (1941), civil rights activist, candidate for Democratic nomination for president. senator from Iowa, candidate for Democratic nomination for president. Tom Harkin (1939), U.S.

senator from Wisconsin. Russ Feingold (1953), U.S. senator from North Carolina, candidate for Democratic nomination for President, Democratic Vice Presidential nominee 2004. John Edwards (1953), former U.S.

senator from Illinois, Senate Minority Whip. Richard Durbin, (1944), U.S. Howard Dean (1948), former governor of Vermont, candidate for Democratic nomination for president, current chair of the Democratic National Committee. senator from South Dakota, former Senate Minority Leader.

Tom Daschle (1947), former U.S. Daley (1942), mayor of Chicago, Illinois. Richard M. congressman from Michigan.

John Conyers (1929), U.S. senator from New York, former First Lady. Hillary Clinton (1947), U.S. Wesley Clark (1944), former NATO commander, candidate for Democratic nomination for president.

senator from West Virginia, former Senate Majority Leader, candidate for the Democratic nomination for president. Robert Byrd (1917), U.S. Jerry Brown (1938), mayor of Oakland, California, former governor of California, candidate for Democratic nomination for president. senator from California.

Barbara Boxer (1940), U.S. senator from Delaware, candidate for the Democratic nomination for president. Joseph Biden (1942), U.S. senator from Indiana.

Evan Bayh (1955), U.S. The Democratic Freedom Caucus is the current example of this faction. foreign policy. They oppose the "War on Drugs," preventive law, protectionism, corporate welfare, immigration restrictions, governmental borrowing, and an interventionist, war-centered U.S.

Civil libertarians often support the Democratic Party because its positions on such issues as civil rights and separation of church and state are more closely aligned to their own than are the positions of the Republican Party, and because the Democrats' economic agenda may be more appealing to them than that of the Libertarian Party. Barack Obama, a newcomer, Jesse Jackson, and John Conyers are prominent leaders. Democratic African-American leadership coalesces around the Congressional Black Caucus and civil rights activists and is generally considered liberal in outlook. African-Americans - This minority group votes consistently for Democratic Party candidates in the 85 to 90% range, and as such can be considered a faction in the party.

Former House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt was a leading supporter of Labor's agenda in Congress. Organized Labor - As a key source of political contributions, volunteers, and field organizing expertise, labor unions hold significant sway in the Democratic Party. Zell Miller, a former Democratic Senator from Georgia, actually spoke in favor of President Bush at the 2004 Republican convention. Southern Democrats - Socially conservative southern white Democrats, previously a key element in the Democratic coalition, are increasingly rare, many having lost, or opting not to run, in the 1994, 2002, and 2004 elections.

Progressive Democrats of America - The supporters of Kucinich's 2004 presidential campaign also started an organization to press their ideas after the election, although it is not restricted to Kucinich supporters. [1] [2]. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).The CPC advocates universal health care, fair trade agreements, living wage laws, the right of all workers to organize into trade unions and engage in strike actions and collective bargaining, the abolition of significant portions of the USA PATRIOT Act, the formation of a Department of Peace, the legalization of gay marriage, strict campaign finance reform laws, a complete pullout from the war in Iraq, a crackdown on corporate crime and what they see as corporate welfare, an increase in income tax on the wealthy, tax cuts for the poor, and an increase in welfare spending by the federal government. Barbara Lee (D-TX), and Rep.

John Lewis (D-GA), Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Rep. Well-known members include Rep. It is the single largest Democratic caucus in the House of Representatives, although it currently has no members from the Senate.

Congress. Congressional Progressive Caucus - The CPC is a caucus of progressive Democrats, along with one independent, in the U.S. It has strong ties to veterans of Paul Wellstone's campaigns. It targets specific campaigns it sees as important.

Its strategy puts emphasis on training large numbers of organizers to work at the grassroots level. 21st Century Democrats - political organization active since 2000 in assisting candidates it describes as "progressive" or "populist" in winning elections. Critics contend that the DLC is effectively a powerful, corporate-financed mouthpiece within the Democratic party that acts to keep Democratic Party candidates and platforms sympathetic to corporate interests and the interests of the wealthy. The DLC hails President Clinton as proof of the viability of third way politicians and a DLC success story.

The founders believed the Democratic Party needed to reform their political philosophy if they were to ever retake the White House, a goal which had eluded the Democrats since the 1976 election of Jimmy Carter. Moderate party leaders founded the DLC in response to the landslide victory of Republican candidate Ronald Reagan over Democratic candidate Walter Mondale during the 1984 Presidential election. The Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) - An influential non-profit organization that advocates neoliberal positions for the United States Democratic Party. Dean's internet campaign.

Many Deaniacs became politically active and contributed financially to other progressive candidates because of Gov. His campaign organization, "Dean for America," became a new group, Democracy for America, which advocates progressive policies. Supporters of Howard Dean, a failed candidate for the party's 2004 presidential nomination, currently serves as chairman of the Democratic National Committee and is a leading opponent of the New Democrats group. Though formally a New Democrat, Hillary Clinton is generally considered more liberal than the DLC.

Clinton Democrats - Political journalists often speak of the political advisors and allies surrounding Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary Clinton as a kind of faction, though such individuals hardly have a unified ideological leaning. The name appears to be both a reference to several well-known Louisiana paintings featuring blue dogs, as well as a reference to the old "yellow dog" Democrats having been "choked blue." Oddly, blue is the color chosen by the media to represent Democrats. They have acted as a unified voting bloc in the past, giving its thirty members some ability to change legislation. The Blue Dog Democrats - A congressional grouping of fiscal and social conservatives and moderates, primarily southerners, willing to broker compromises with the Republican leadership.

Governor Tom Vilsack of Iowa is the current chairman. The group was founded and continues to be led by Al From. The organization became particularly prominent during and after Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign. The New Democrats - A grouping of centrists, formally organized as the Democratic Leadership Council.

Most notable of these is the National Firearms Act of 1934 (signed into law by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 1939 Gun Control Act (also signed into law by FDR), the 1968 Gun Control Act (introduced by Senator Dodd and heavily endorsed by Senator Edward Kennedy), the Brady law of 1993 (signed by President Bill Clinton), and the Crime Control Act of 1994 (signed by Bill Clinton). Gun Control: The Democratic Party has supported and introduced various gun-control measures over the last 100 years. A stand on abortion rights is sometimes more influenced by religious or personal beliefs than by political party preference. (See Democrats for Life.) It should be noted that not all Democratic party members are pro-choice; Democratic Senate minority leader Harry Reid, the party's ranking Congressional leader, is anti-abortion.

However, in the platform adopted in 2000, the Democrats stated a respectful inclusiveness of Democrats who feel differently about the issue. (NAF Abortion Facts) Their proposal (in 2000 and 2004) for public policy on termination of pregnancy is for abortion to be "safe, legal and rare" - namely, keeping it legal by rejecting laws that include governmental interference in any individual matter, and reducing the number performed by promoting both knowledge of reproduction and incentives for adoption. In September 1993 Congress rewrote the Hyde Amendment to allow for federal funding of abortions. Many Democratic politicians include in this right practical access to abortion through government subsidies.

Wade to surgical termination of pregnancy. This includes access under Roe v. Wade. Thus as a matter of privacy and gender equality, women should be allowed to control their fertility and child bearing, including access to termination of pregnancy, in accordance with Roe v.