Democrats held Congress for 40 years, but by 1994 the American public had had enough. 1994 was the year of the Republican Revolution. Riding a wave of Democratic dissatisfaction, Republicans picked up 54 seats in the House and eight seats in the Senate. The Contract with America avoided hot-button issues and made appealing centrist promises: ( Read more... )

matrygg pointed me to a patgund article about Hillary and Obama's respective parties, which told me something I didn't know.

Obama is the choice nominee of the Democratic National Committee, the principal organization governing the United States Democratic Party. They're the group with Howard Dean as the chairman and promoting a more distinct party identity ( Read more... )

The Bush/Rove strategists are incredibly good at dividing, marginalizing, and discrediting their political opponents in the public eye. Since the "contract with America" that won them Congressional control in 1996 they've become masters at pushing carefully-worded legislation that unites Republicans while dividing Democrats, drafting bills that ( Read more... )