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. Boxer, D-Calif.". It was in Ohio, however, where the Wright Brothers' many inventions were made, and where the 1903 Wright Flyer was manufactured prior to its partial disassembly and shipment to North Carolina. Barbara L. As the positions of both states can be factually defended, and both states play a significant role in the history of flight, neither state truly has a complete claim to the Wrights' accomplishment. Sen. With a spirit of friendly rivalry, Ohio has adopted the informal slogan "Birthplace of Aviation" (later "Birthplace of Aviation Pioneers", with a tip of the hat to not only the Wrights, but also John Glenn and Neil Armstrong, both Ohio natives.) North Carolina has also adopted the slogan "First In Flight" and includes the theme on state license plates. Boxer (D-CA)" or, in Associated Press style, "U.S.

The states of Ohio and North Carolina both take credit for the Wright Brothers and their world-changing invention - Ohio because the brothers developed and built their design in Dayton, and North Carolina because Kitty Hawk was the site of the first flight. Barbara L. From their use of local materials, when Requarth Lumber Company wood was used to construct the Flyer I and other airplanes, to the encouragement of local arts and sciences, as with Paul Laurence Dunbar, to their financial and political contributions, as with the massive Air Force base and museum, the Wright Brothers changed the city's history. Sen. The Wrights' contributions to the city of Dayton were and remain immeasurable. senator from California may be referred to as "U.S. See Dayton for city history. For example, Barbara Boxer, a Democratic U.S.

On November 23, 1948 the executors of the estate of Orville Wright wrote a contract with the Smithsonian Institute regarding the display of the aircraft, stating that "Neither the Smithsonian Institution or its successors, nor any museum or other agency, bureau or facilities administered for the United States of America by the Smithsonian Institution or its successors shall publish or permit to be displayed a statement or label in connection with or in respect of any aircraft model or design of earlier date than the Wright Aeroplane of 1903, claiming in effect that such aircraft was capable of carrying a man under its own power in controlled flight." If this wasn't fulfilled the Flyer would be returned to the heir of the Wright brothers. 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. The Smithsonian eventually agreed, but the Flyer remained at Kensington in London until 1948. 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. Orville stated it wouldn't be returned until he and his brother were acknowledged as the "Fathers of Powered Flight". 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. When the Smithsonian proposed a display that would not have made this clear, Orville Wright responded by loaning the Flyer I to the London Science Museum. 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".

His full-sized planes, however, were complete failures at flight. See List of state Democratic Parties in the U.S. Manley was actually employed by the US government to construct aircraft for military use. 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. M. In most states the Democratic Party is simply known as the "Democratic Party". He had a claim to being "father of flight" as he had for many years worked on gliders and successful powered models, and his assistant C. (Years of birth and death are indicated.).

Langley was secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. (Years of birth are indicated.). In the early 1900s professor Samuel P. [ref5]. But the Wright Flyer stands out as the first practical flying machine (airplane/aeroplane) with a combination of features not used before, but included in all that came later, to this day (effective wings, 3-axis control, an effective system to generate power and turn into thrust, and an effective takeoff system). The Senate did not vote on either proposal. Endlessly more advanced machines came after. 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.

Many heavier-than-air aircraft became airborne before the Wrights, but lacked control. 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 counter-claims to having the 'first plane' often have some truth to them. 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]. Catapults do remain in use on aircraft carriers where planes cannot build enough speed to take off, and these still make use of landing gear. 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. This machine used the Wright's essential developments. 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.

This important advancement would have to wait till Alberto Santos-Dumont and the flight of the 14-Bis to be implemented in aircraft. [ref9] In What's the Matter with Kansas?, commentator Thomas Frank wrote the Democrats needed to return to campaigning on economic populism. In modern aircraft a landing gear and long runways enable them to build up to take-off speed. 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. This is done in a number of ways. One topic of discussion is the party's policies surrounding reproductive rights, especially abortion. Furthermore, if an aircraft does not have enough peak power to overcome the extra drag from being in contact with the ground, some other means must be found to overcome it. Some have suggested moving towards the center to regain seats in the House and Senate and possibly win the presidency in 2008.

The Flyer did manage to get off the ground under its own power in some instances, and its powered and controlled flights after it was aided in achieving its take-off speed by the catapult largely redeem it. 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. Just as many aircraft do not have enough power to take off in certain conditions, the Flyer's trouble with achieving its take off speed on land is not a real issue. Since then, many Democrats have voiced serious concern over the future of their party. Some consider that a plane incapable of taking off using its own power could not be a true aircraft, but choosing a non-standard definition does not necessarily exclude the Wrights. Overall, President Bush increased his percentage among Hispanics by 9 percent, from 35 in 2000 to 44 percent in 2004. This method of launching has been the source of controversy for some attacks on the Wrights' claim. 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.

After their Kitty Hawk flights, which used a rail but no mechanical assistance in windy conditions, the Wrights developed a weight-powered catapult in Ohio to aid initial acceleration. Another aspect of the Democratic Party's defeat in 2004 was the apparent loss of overwhelming popularity the party once had with Hispanic voters. Regardless, some recreations do fly, and the Flyer II's impressive performance and flights largely vindicate the design. 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 Wrights' initial troubles with their own recreation, the Flyer II, makes the matter even harder. Barbara Boxer of California and several Democratic U.S. Things that even the Wrights do not know about the Flyer I that enabled it to fly are lost to history, such as things like the octane of the fuels used, and the small details of aerodynamics that can have disproportionate effect on the ability of planes to fly. Sen.

The reasons for failures of recreations usually stem from an inability to know exactly the Wrights' design and to duplicate the conditions of the flight. presidential election controversy and irregularities) The controversies led U.S. Another source of attack is that some of the recreations of the Wright Flyer do not fly. (see 2004 U.S. There has also been much debate about whether the Wright Brothers' early flights (as well as those of earlier claims) flew high enough to be out of ground effect. In Florida, Bev Harris discovered garbage bags full of ballots on which votes had been switched. Still, controversy in the credit for invention of the airplane has been fuelled by the Wrights' secrecy while their patent was prepared, by the pride of nations, by the number of firsts made possible by the basic invention, and other assorted issues. [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 careful balance between all these areas are seen in any craft capable of sustained flight, and they first happened in the flyer. [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. The Wright Brothers' patented three-axis system of control, using wing warping (later supplanted by other 3-axis control systems), an effective wing design for the craft's weight, a light enough motor with power to maintain steady flight, an effective system to turn the engine power into thrust (the propeller), and some other features allowed it to be significantly better than any previous manned flying machine. [ref6] Some suggested that the Democrats had received too negative a public image and that Republicans exploited that image. Many had the ability to glide (translate forward speed into lift), and some had control mechanisms. Harry Reid (D-Nevada) has asserted that Kerry lost because he did not do enough to reach out to rural citizens. Many had wing designs of some effectiveness. Sen.

Many earlier attempts featured powerful powerplants or very light powerplants. U.S. The ability of the Wrights to demonstrate the source of, and in many cases explain, the features that they combined and developed into the first working airplane (aeroplane), along with the ability to see these same features turn up in later craft is among the most powerful evidence of what they accomplished. [ref5]. However, some of the strongest claims lie in the design qualities of the craft itself and the spread of those features to other pioneers. Bush, "met the call of duty" in the aftermath of 9/11). The Wrights' flights have what is usually considered to be reasonable proof, including photos and multiple eyewitnesses. [ref4] Others said that the Democrats did not have an inspiring story to tell (whereas Republicans touted that their candidate, Pres.

(Note that claims earlier than the Wrights are often criticized on similar grounds.). 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. Several claims are actually after the Wrights, and lay claim by discounting the Wrights' attempt either on the basis of its authenticity (that it's valid enough), on some technical basis of the flyer in relation to the technical details to the title, or sometimes both. Some argued that the Democratic Party had lost Clinton's "vision thing," and lacked clear policies or alternatives. Numerous claims before the Wrights aspire to the title of being the first powered, controlled, and self-sustaining flight (or minor variations of this classification). Following the elections of 2004 was debate of why and how the Democrats lost. Lighter-than-air balloons, dirigibles, airships had been taking people into the sky for much of the 18th century before the Wrights, and several people had been working on heavier-than-air flying machines as well. However, the Democrats lost the governorship of Missouri and a legislative majority in Georgia - which had once been a Democratic stronghold since Reconstruction.

See First flying machine. 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. There are many claims of earlier flights made by other flying machines in various categories and qualifications. 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. The Flyer I is now on display in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.. Republicans gained four seats in the Senate and three seats in the House of Representatives. Neither brother married. Kerry narrowly lost both the popular and electoral vote.

Orville sold his interests in the airplane company in 1915 and died thirty-three years later from a heart attack while fixing the doorbell to his home, Hawthorne Hill, in Oakwood, Ohio. Bush and the Republican Party, the Democrats were not victorious nationally. Wilbur died from typhoid fever in 1912, an event Orville never completely recovered from. Despite strong campaigning and the faltering image of George W. The Wrights were involved in several patent battles, which they won in 1914. That year, Democrats generally campaigned on surmounting the jobless recovery, exiting Iraq, and their own proposals for policies on counterterrorism. The Wrights took over 300 photographs of flights and many other events of those pioneer days of aviation. 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.

For the return trip, however, the Wright Flyer was loaded on a train the night of the world record flight, and Parmalee returned to Dayton on the same Big Four Express train that he overtook in the air the day before. By 2004, the failure of George W. In addition to carrying the first air-freight, Parmalee's speed of 60 miles an hour (97 km/h) set a world record for in-flight speed. 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 62 mile (100 km) flight took 62 minutes, with Parmalee overtaking the Big Four express train in London, Ohio. 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. The actual flight occurred on November 7, 1910, with the Model "B" Wright Flyer piloted by Phil Parmalee. John Kerry, though, received the nomination because he was widely seen as more "electable" than the often blunt Dean.

Moorehouse, in turn, agreed to pay the Wrights $5,000 for the service, which was more an exercise in advertising than a simple delivery. Clark and, in particular, Dean both had immense grassroots support. The Wright brothers agreed to the proposal, adding that their pilot and airplane would put on an exhibition once the cargo was delivered to the Driving Park landing area on the east side of Columbus. 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. Moorehouse, owner of Moorehouse-Marten's Department store in Columbus, asked if the Wright Brothers could carry a shipment of silk ribbon from a wholesaler in Dayton to Columbus. Ex-Gov. On October 25, 1910, the Wright Brothers were engaged by Max Moorehouse of Columbus, Ohio to undertake the first commercial air cargo shipment. Wesley Clark, an opponent of the war in Iraq, was the frontrunner for the nomination.

That year the Wrights were also building Wright Flyers in factories in Dayton and in Germany. For a time, Gen. $30,000 of the federal budget was reserved for military aviation. The Democrats began fielding Presidential candidates as early as 2002 Dec., when Gore announced he would not run in 2004. Also in 1909, the Wrights won the first US military aviation contract when they built a machine that met the requirements of a two-seater, capable of flights of an hour's duration, at an average of 40 miles per hour (64 km/h) and land undamaged. [ref3]. On September 29, 1909, one million New-Yorkers witnessed the extraordinary flight of Wilbur Wright above the Hudson River and around the Statue of Liberty, which solidly established the fame of the Wright Brothers in America. 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.

Later, they returned to the United States. 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). The French public was thrilled by the feat of Wilbur Wright, and the Wright Brothers were offered the direction of a flying school in the Sarthe département, and later in Pau, southern France, which they accepted. 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. Berg became the first woman to fly when she flew with Wilbur Wright in Le Mans, France. The Democratic Party lost a few seats in the U.S. (This was the only serious accident the Wrights suffered.) In late 1908, Madame Hart O. With job losses and bankruptcies across regions and industries increasing in 2001 and 2002, the Democrats generally campaigned on the issue of economic recovery.

Orville broke a leg and two ribs. Bush signed it into law. Thomas Selfridge became the first person killed in a powered airplane on that day (Charlie Furnas had become the first air passenger on May 14), when a propeller failure caused the crash of the passenger-carrying plane Orville was piloting. 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. Orville Wright followed his brother's success by demonstrating the flyer to the United States Army at Fort Myer, Virginia on September 17, 1908. 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. The Wright Brothers became world famous overnight. 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.

Their first public demonstration was held on August 8, 1908, on the racing track of Le Mans, Sarthe département, France, where Wilbur Wright took the command of the Wright Flyer model A and made a series of technically challenging flights, demonstrating to the world his skills as a pilot as well as the potential of his flying machine, far surpassing all other pilot pioneers. All but one Congressional Democrat voted with their Republican colleagues to authorize President Bush's 2001 invasion of Afghanistan. It is only after they signed a contract with the US Army and a French company that the Wright Brothers accepted to take part in public demonstrations and flying contests. 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. As for Glenn Curtiss, he succeeded with America's first public and official airplane flight on July 4, 1908. Tom Daschle of South Dakota continued to lead the Senate Democrats with an agenda of compromise. It was a very pale performance compared to the 39 kilometers flown by the Wright Brothers the year before, but at the time the October 23, 1906 flight in Paris was thought to be the first flight of an airplane in human history, as people were unaware or doubtful of the previous flights of the Wright Brothers. Sen.

On November 12 he flew 220 meters. Jim Jeffords (Vermont) changed party affiliation from Republican to independent, which effectively returned majority privileges back the Democratic Senators. Santos-Dumont received a world triumph after succeeding with the first public take-off, flight, and landing in the history of aviation, flying 60 meters with his Oiseau de proie aircraft during a public demonstration at Bagatelle, on the outskirts of Paris, on October 23, 1906. However, that changed when Sen. Thus, ridiculed by the press, the Wright brothers continued their work in semi-obscurity, while other pilot pioneers like Franco-Brazilian pioneer Santos-Dumont or US pioneer Glenn Curtiss were occupying the limelight. The Democratic Senators went from the majority in the 106th Congress to a split minority in the 107th Congress. They attempted to sign contracts with the US army, the French army, the English army, and even the German army, but all refused as they had not been shown the flying machine in operation. Winning either Florida or New Hampshire would have given Gore enough electoral votes to win the presidency.

This was reinforced by the fact that the Wright Brothers, wary of the competition stealing their plans, refused to make public demonstrations of their machines or take part in air shows before signing firm contracts with the military. In Florida, Nader received 97,000 votes; Bush defeated Gore by a mere 1,000. The Paris edition of the Herald Tribune headlined a 1906 article on the Wrights "FLYERS OR LIARS?". 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. The news was not widely known outside of Ohio, and was often met with skepticism. Some election observers blamed the Nader candidacy for Gore's defeat. As a result, the first local report of the flights appeared in a beekeeping magazine. On election day, Gore won the popular vote by just over 500,000 votes, but lost in the Electoral College by four votes.

When a large contingent of journalists arrived at the field in 1904, for instance, the Wrights were experiencing mechanical difficulties, and were unable to correct them within two days. 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. The press was not sympathetic to the Wright Brothers. 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. Here they completed the first aerial circle and by October 5, 1905 Wilbur set a record of over 39 minutes in the air and 24 1/2 miles (39 km), circling over Huffman Prairie. Although Gore and Governor George W. In 1904 and 1905, the Wright Brothers conducted over 105 flights from Huffman Prairie in Dayton, inviting the press and friends and neighbors. 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.

In 1905, they built an improved aeroplane, the Flyer III. In the 2000 presidential election, the Democrats ran then-Vice President Al Gore, a founding member and former chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council. By the end of the year, the Wright Brothers had sustained 105 flights, some of them of 5 minutes, circling over the prairie, which is now part of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. This party believed that centrist Democrats were not safeguarding progressivism in government. The Wrights established a flying field at Huffman Prairie, near Dayton, and continued work in 1904, building the Flyer II and using a catapult take-off system to compensate for the lack of wind in this location. The far-left Green Party emerged as a vehicle for resentment against the Democrats in the 2000 election. It had a wingspan of 40 feet (12 m), weighed 750 pounds (340 kg), and sported a 12 horsepower (9 kW), 170 pound (77 kg) engine. Democrats challenged the validity of such critiques, citing the important Democratic role in pushing progressive reforms in many states and localities.

The Flyer I cost less than a thousand dollars to construct. Some liberals and progressives felt alienated from the Democratic Party, which they felt had become unconcerned with the interests of common people. Only one other newspaper, the Cincinnati Enquirer, printed the story the next day. 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. A local newspaper reported the event, inaccurately. 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. The flights were witnessed by 4 lifesavers and a boy from the village, making it arguably the first public flight. Those on the left of the party were dismayed at this agreement as well.

[1]. 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. In the fourth flight of the same day, the only flight made that day which was actually controlled, Wilbur Wright flew 279 meters (852 ft) in 59 seconds. President Bill Clinton, who defeated the incumbent President Bush in 1992, implemented a balanced federal budget and welfare reform, traditionally Republican causes. The first flight, by Orville, of 39 meters (120 feet) in 12 seconds, was recorded in a famous photograph. In the 1990s the Democratic Party re-invigorated itself, in part by moving to the right on economic and social policy. Then on December 17, 1903, the Wrights took to the air, both of them twice. 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.

(The chain used in the engine was a bicycle chain, not surprisingly.). 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. The engine was superior to manufactured ones, having a low enough weight-to-power ratio to use on an aeroplane. In response to these losses, the Democratic Leadership Council worked to move the Party more towards the ideological center. The propellers had an 80% efficiency rate. Bush. In 1903, they built the Wright Flyer -- later the Flyer I (today popularly known as the Kitty Hawk), carved propellers and had an engine built by Taylor in their bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio. W.

By 1903, the Wright Brothers were perhaps the most skilled glider pilots in the world. Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis also lost in 1988 to Reagan Vice-President George H. patent number 821,393, "Flying-Machine", on May 23, 1906) for the novel technique of controlling lateral movement and turning by "wing warping". 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. On March 23, 1903 they applied for a patent (granted as U.S. 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. Their last glider, the Wright Glider of 1902, applied many important innovations in flight, and the brothers made over a thousand flights with it. In 1980, Carter lost after one term to Ronald Reagan.

They experimented with gliders at Kitty Hawk from 1900 through 1902, each year constructing a new glider. 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. In 1900 they went to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina to continue their aeronautical work, choosing Kitty Hawk (specifically a sand dune called Kill Devil Hill) on the advice of a National Weather Service meterologist because of its strong and steady winds and because its remote location afforded the brothers privacy from prying eyes in the highly competitive race to invent a successful heavier-than-air flying machine. Ford soon pardoned Nixon. The warping was then controlled by wire running through the wings, which led to sticks the flyer held, and he could pull one or the other to make it turn left or right. Thus, when Nixon resigned, Ford became the first President in the nation's history to have been neither elected President nor Vice-President. To allow warping in the first gliders, they had to keep the front and rear posts that hold up the glider unbraced. After Agnew resigned, Nixon appointed Gerald Ford a Republican House Member from Michigan as his replacement.

If they could control how the gliders' wings warped, then it would make flying much easier. Prior to that, his Vice-President, Spiro Agnew had been forced out by a separate scandal. To that end, they first made gliders (beginning in 1899), using an intricate system called “wing warping.” If one wing bent one way, it would receive more lift, which would make the plane lift. Nixon, because of the Watergate scandal, had been forced to resign the presidency in 1974. The Wright Brothers were noted for placing the emphasis of their aviation research on navigational control rather than simply lift and propulsion which would make sustained flight practical. By 1976, however, things had changed dramatically. During their research, the Wrights always worked together, and their contributions to the aeroplane's development are inseparable. McGovern was defeated in a landslide by incumbent Republican President Richard Nixon, the former winning only Massachusetts and Washington, D.C.

Their work and projects with bicycles, gears, bicycle motors, and balance (while riding a bicycle), were critical to their success in creating the mechanical airplane. 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. The Wrights had researched and initially relied upon the aeronautical literature of the day, including Lilienthal's tables; but finding that the Smeaton Coefficient (a variable in the formula for lift and the formula for drag) was wrong, had a wind tunnel built by their employee, Charlie Taylor, and tested over two hundred different wing shapes in it, eventually devising their own tables relating air pressure to wing shape. 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. They developed three-axis control and established principles of control still used today. 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. The brothers extended the technology of flight by emphasizing control of the aircraft (instead of increased power) for taking off into the air. 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.

Drawing on the work of Sir George Cayley, Octave Chanute, Otto Lilienthal and Samuel Pierpont Langley, they began their mechanical aeronautical experimentation in 1899. The Republicans began their Southern strategy, which aimed to woo the conservative Southern Democrats. They used the occupation to fund their growing interest in flight. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Wright brothers grew up in Dayton, where they opened a bicycle repair, design and manufacturing company (the Wright Cycle Company) in 1892. The party's dramatic reversal on civil rights issues culminated when Democratic President Lyndon B. Both received high school educations but no diplomas. 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.

Wilbur Wright was born in Millville, Indiana in 1867, Orville in Dayton, Ohio in 1871. Over the next few years, many white Democrats in the "Solid South" drifted away from the party. . Senator, would later join the Republican party). However, their accomplishments have been subject to many counter-claims by some people and nations at their start, and through to the present day. 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. The Wright brothers, Orville Wright (August 19, 1871 - January 30, 1948) and Wilbur Wright (April 16, 1867 - May 30, 1912), are generally credited with the design and construction of the first practical aeroplane, and making the first controllable, powered heavier-than-air flight along with many other aviation milestones. The New Deal Coalition began to fracture as more Democratic leaders voiced support for civil rights, upsetting the party's base of Southern Democrats.

This resolution later passed during the 1948 national convention as part of a larger resolution endorsing civil rights. After considerable debate, the resolution failed by a single vote. In 1924 at the Democratic national convention, a resolution denouncing the white-supremacist Ku Klux Klan was introduced. This united voter base allowed Democrats to control the government for much of the next 30 years.

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. Roosevelt's New Deal programs focused on job-creation through public works projects as well as on social welfare programs such as Social Security. (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.). However, Roosevelt's attempt to purge the party of its conservatives failed when all five senators won re-election despite Roosevelt's efforts.

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. 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. Roosevelt won a landslide victory in the election of 1932, campaigning on a platform of "relief, recovery, and reform". The stock market crash of 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression set the stage for a more interventionist government and Franklin D.

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. 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. 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). Tilden in the election of 1876.

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. 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. 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. The Democrats were shattered by the war but nevertheless benefited from white Southerners' resentment of Reconstruction and consequent hostility to the Republican Party.

From 1856 onward, the Democratic Party's main opposition has come from the modern Republican Party. 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. 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. presidential election, 1860).

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. 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. From 1833 to 1856, the Democratic Party was opposed chiefly by the Whig Party. 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.

The coalition that Jackson built was the foundation of the subsequent Democratic Party. 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. 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. After the disintegration of the Federalist Party, the Democratic-Republicans were the only major party in American politics.

(Today, this party is usually referred to as the "Democratic-Republican Party" to avoid confusion). The Democratic Party's origins lie in the original Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1794. Senate races (Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee), gubernatorial races (Democratic Governors Association), and state legislative races (Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee). House races (Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee), U.S.

The Democratic Party also has fundraising and strategy committees for U.S. The current chair of the DNC is Howard Dean. This structure can be considered the counterpart of the Republican National Committee (RNC) and Republican state and local organizations. counties (though in some states, Party organization lower than the state-level is arranged by legislative districts).

state and most U.S. There are similar committees in every U.S. It is responsible for developing and promoting the Democratic political platform, as well as coordinating fundraising and election strategy. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) provides national leadership for the United States Democratic Party.

For more information on how American political parties are organized, see Politics of the United States.. Democratic campaign rhetoric is full of symbolic references to these achievements.". Year after year, the Democrats took ideas that were considered impractical and converted them into programs considered to be necessities by many Americans. Cohen of Philadelphia, said, "One cannot fully understand Democratic policy proposals unless one understands the past.

A Democratic activist over the last four decades, and a delegate to the 2004 Democratic National Convention, State Representative Mark B. citizens, progressive taxation, and an internationalist foreign policy). Kennedy), programs (Social Security, minimum wage, Medicare) and goals (expanded health insurance, greater incomes for average U.S. Roosevelt, John F.

The Democratic Party draws on its history of politicians (Franklin D. 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. 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. Missouri Libertarians instead used the Liberty Bell until 1995, when the mule became Missouri's state animal.

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. For the majority of the 20th Century, Missouri Democrats used the Statue of Liberty as their ballot emblem. This symbol still appears on Kentucky and Indiana ballots. 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.

The DNC's official logo, pictured above, depicts a stylized kicking donkey. 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. 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. Keeping that in mind, there are several ideological groups widely recognized within the modern-day Democratic Party:.

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. The following will give readers a summary of the position expressed in the platforms that the Democratic Party adopted in 2000 and 2004. However, it is important to give researchers and other readers a general idea of a particular party's position on the issues. Some members may disagree with one or more plank of his or her party's platform.

There is always debate within either American major political party. 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. . (See that article for a full discussion of the various meanings of the term).

it is often referred to as the more "liberal" party. In the 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. 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.