Democrats are generally considered liberal, while Republicans are seen as conservative. The Democratic Party typically supports a larger government role in economic issues, backing regulations and social welfare programs. The Republicans, however, typically want a smaller government that is less involved i...
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A significant number of U.S. presidents have faced calls for impeachment, including five of the past six Republican presidents. But few of those accusations were taken seriously by Congress. There were evenrumblingsabout impeaching the nation's first president,George Washington, by those who oppose...
Republican pollsters, alert to this discrepancy between person and policy, have advised the GOP accordingly: Trying to get the public to distrust Obama is more difficult than arousing distrust for the platoons of government bureaucrats they say his policies are unleashing. Obama’s political advisers...
However, experts say it would be folly to assume a fully bottom-up approach from the Democratic candidate. “There’s no doubt that there’s a big upswell in organic interest in Kamala Karris,” said Samuel Woolley, a University of Pittsburgh researcher and longtime project...
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Dating back to 1933, a Democratic president typically presides over a higher U.S. equity market than a Republican president, said Brian Kraus, head of investment consulting at Hartford Funds. And if you strip away some outliers, such as the boom years under President Bill Clinton or the ...
"While there are a lot of emotional feelings and rhetoric about which presidential candidate would be better for stocks, the market's average annual performance is actually about the same when a Republican is president and when a Democrat is president," Bahnsen says. ...
With Trump on an apparent path to be the Republican nominee and the same for Biden on the Democratic side, it appears the nation is headed to a rematch from 2020. That election, and Trump’s refusal to accept his loss, led to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol b...
South Carolina has an "open primary," meaning any registered voter could participate in the state's Republican presidential primary as long as they did not vote in the state's Democratic primary.Even so, just over a quarter of voters self-identified as independents and just about 5% as Democ...