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Why are there only the Democratic party and the Republican party currently in the US?
I was looking at the history of the political parties, and I found out that John Adams was a member of the Federalist party, while his son John Quincy Adams was a member of Thomas Jefferson's ...
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Why are the 2 US political parties called Republicans and Democrats?
Why are the 2 main parties in the United States called the Democrats and the Republicans? The US is both a democracy and a republic, and neither party's platforms seem to be built around the ...
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Why did the acronym GOP stick to the Republicans and not to the Democrats?
The general definition “Grand Old Party” appears to have been originally used for both the Republicans and the Democrats, but it was finally used to specifically refer to the Republican Party:
GOP ...
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US politics: Why are Republicans more often reported to be corrupt, compared to Democrats? [closed]
This Wikipedia article could be interpreted to indicate that members of the Republican party, based solely on number of instances, are ~2.5x as likely to be corrupt than members of the Democrat party.
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Have any other Republican candidates for Congress accepted only the Democratic nomination? vice versa?
Bill Shuster inherited PA's 9th congressional district from his father in 2002. In most election cycles, he runs unopposed as the district is mostly Republican.
This primary season he won the ...
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When, how and why did the stars in the logo of the Republican Party get turned upside down?
Note: I'm not making any claims here, I'm simply asking for the story behind the logo change.
Here is the current logo of the US Republican Party:
The stars used to point upwards, like this:
This ...
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