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28 May 2015, 7:52 am by Adam Gillette
One thing each of those states has in common is the presence of a robust Democratic Party that, at least occasionally, controls the legislative and executive branches of the state.That is not really true of the latest state to ban the death penalty-Nebraska. [read post]
3 Aug 2017, 2:29 pm by Lovechilde
 Earlier this year, Bernie Sanders campaigned for an anti-choice candidate for mayor in Nebraska and Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez, as part of the Party's "outreach" effort met with a group that described themselves as the "pro-life voice of the Democratic Party. [read post]
6 Jul 2017, 3:15 am by NCC Staff
For a brief time in the decade before the Civil War, the Democratic Party of Andrew Jackson and his descendants enjoyed a period of one-party rule. [read post]
18 Oct 2011, 5:33 am by Glenn Reynolds
Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Jon Tester of Montana were the only two Democrats who voted last week to filibuster President Barack Obama’s $447 billion American Jobs Act. [read post]
12 Jan 2008, 9:25 am
I am glad that Ben Nelson is a Democrat and coming from Nebraska, I doubt we could get someone better, but Nelson's views are NOT what I want for the Democratic Party. [read post]
17 Nov 2011, 8:27 am
Republicans have some concerns even in states that heavily favor them, including North Dakota, and Democrats are investing heavily in places like Nebraska, even though Senator Ben Nelson’s voting record often has the Democratic majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, pulling at his gray tufts of hair.More hair problems! [read post]
20 Mar 2021, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
In November 1860, Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected president over a divided Democratic Party, and in April 1861 the Civil War began. [read post]
4 Dec 2017, 2:53 am by Scott Bomboy
By 1854, the battle between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions within the Whig party ended when the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, allowing new territories and states to decide on their own if they would allow slavery. [read post]
25 Mar 2018, 5:41 am by Cannabis Law Group
” But both parties are seeing through those games and are moving forward, whether naysayers like it or not. [read post]
21 Nov 2010, 8:56 pm by Sandy Levinson
If any single event contributed to the electoral fiasco for the Democrats, it was the shameful (and shameless) "bargaining" with Nebraska Democrat Ben Nelson, in which he, in effect, sold his vote for an indefensible preference for his home state. [read post]
3 Nov 2014, 6:46 pm by Old Fox
  In that election, the Republican Party issued its first-ever Party platform. [read post]
8 Oct 2011, 4:04 am by Glenn Reynolds
What does that mean for the other two most vulnerable Senate Democrats: Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Claire McCaskill of Missouri? [read post]
5 Jun 2015, 9:22 am by Adam Gillette
Instead, the list also includes states with 2 Democratic senators and states with senators from more than one political party (trivia: two states have one independent senator).The two recently confirmed judges that Judge Kopf compares to the vacancy in Nebraska both had their nominations pending for about 8 months before the Senate voted on them. [read post]
18 Dec 2010, 3:38 pm by Sandy Levinson
The real disgrace is that the decisive votes to maintain the filibuster were supplied by five ostensible memers of the Democratic Party, Senators Max Baucus and John Tester of Montana, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Kay Hagan of North Carolina, and Mark Pryor of Arkansas. [read post]
13 Aug 2014, 4:42 pm
Clark was wonderful: “He represented to me a type of democracy [i.e., the Democratic Party] for which I was willing to forego Populism. [read post]