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  | party_articletitle = Democratic Party (United States)

  | party_articletitle = Democratic Party (United States)

  | party_logo = [[Image:democraticpartyusalogo.png|200px]]

  | party_logo = [[Image:democraticpartyusalogo.png|200px]]

  | website = [http://www.democrats.org www.democrats.org]

  | Thankssite = [http://www.democrats.org www.democrats.org]

  | headquarters = 430 South Capitol Street SE<br> [[Washington, D.C.]]<br>20003  

  | headquarters = 430 South Capitol Street SE<br> [[Washington, D.C.]]<br>20003  

  | chairman = [[Thomas Perez]]

  | chairman = [[Thomas Perez]]

For the first two Obama years, the Democrats controlled the White House and a veto-proof Congress, ramming through unpopular legislation without bipartisan support such as [[Obamacare]]. In the 2010 midterm elections, the Republican party won decisive control of the House of Representatives; suburbs and rural areas are still more likely to be in Republican hands.<ref>[http://www.multistate.com/Site.nsf/Elections2006PostMaps?OpenPage Multistate.com] Post-Election 2006 Maps</ref> Polls at the time indicated that 50% of voters identified themselves with the Democrats as opposed to 35% for the Republican Party.<ref>[http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=312 Trends in Political Values and Core Attitudes: 1987-2007] Pew Research Center, 22 March 2007</ref>  On the one hand, the Democrats claim to have won the popular vote for President in 2016 by more than 2.7 million votes (although, contrary to [[liberal denial]], over 800,000 illegal immigrants likely voted<ref>Lucas, Fred, "[http://dailysignal.com/2016/11/28/more-than-800000-noncitizens-could-have-voted-in-2016-election-experts-say/ More Than 800,000 Noncitizens May Have Voted in 2016 Election, Expert Says]," ''The Daily Signal''.</ref><ref>O'Reilly, Bill (November 29, 2016). [http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2016/11/29/bill-oreilly-amazing-amount-confusion-over-illegal-aliens-voting/ Bill O'Reilly: Amazing amount of confusion over illegal aliens voting]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved November 2016.</ref><ref>Scarborough, Rowan (January 26, 2017). [http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/26/hillary-clinton-received-800000-votes-from-nonciti/ Trump argument bolstered: Clinton could have received 800,000 votes from noncitizens, study finds]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved January 27, 2017.</ref>), and Republican candidates received 49.13% of the nationwide total votes cast for House races in 2016 and won 55.4% of U.S. House seats.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2016|title=United States House of Representatives elections, 2016|accessdate=February 8, 2017}}</ref> However, because the Presidential election is decided by the Electoral College and the House seats are elected by defined districts, Republicans won the White House as well as the majority of House seats.

For the first two Obama years, the Democrats controlled the White House and a veto-proof Congress, ramming through unpopular legislation without bipartisan support such as [[Obamacare]]. In the 2010 midterm elections, the Republican party won decisive control of the House of Representatives; suburbs and rural areas are still more likely to be in Republican hands.<ref>[http://www.multistate.com/Site.nsf/Elections2006PostMaps?OpenPage Multistate.com] Post-Election 2006 Maps</ref> Polls at the time indicated that 50% of voters identified themselves with the Democrats as opposed to 35% for the Republican Party.<ref>[http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=312 Trends in Political Values and Core Attitudes: 1987-2007] Pew Research Center, 22 March 2007</ref>  On the one hand, the Democrats claim to have won the popular vote for President in 2016 by more than 2.7 million votes (although, contrary to [[liberal denial]], over 800,000 illegal immigrants likely voted<ref>Lucas, Fred, "[http://dailysignal.com/2016/11/28/more-than-800000-noncitizens-could-have-voted-in-2016-election-experts-say/ More Than 800,000 Noncitizens May Have Voted in 2016 Election, Expert Says]," ''The Daily Signal''.</ref><ref>O'Reilly, Bill (November 29, 2016). [http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2016/11/29/bill-oreilly-amazing-amount-confusion-over-illegal-aliens-voting/ Bill O'Reilly: Amazing amount of confusion over illegal aliens voting]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved November 2016.</ref><ref>Scarborough, Rowan (January 26, 2017). [http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/26/hillary-clinton-received-800000-votes-from-nonciti/ Trump argument bolstered: Clinton could have received 800,000 votes from noncitizens, study finds]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved January 27, 2017.</ref>), and Republican candidates received 49.13% of the nationwide total votes cast for House races in 2016 and won 55.4% of U.S. House seats.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2016|title=United States House of Representatives elections, 2016|accessdate=February 8, 2017}}</ref> However, because the Presidential election is decided by the Electoral College and the House seats are elected by defined districts, Republicans won the White House as well as the majority of House seats.

The party now is dominated by [[Progressive]] [[Millenial]]s reared in [[public school]]s and state universities to believe that the [[Constitution]] was written by a bunch of white-male slaveholders and needs to be torn up, and whites - the majority descended from immigrants after the [[Civil War]] or whose forebearers died to free the [[slave]]s - need to be punished. Gone are the [[labor union]]s which formed the backbone of the [[New Deal]] and [[Great Society]] coalitions, their jobs and living standards shipped to the [[Third World]] in the name of "income equality" and leveling the playing field.<ref>If "Third World" is a "racist code word" as some progressives contend, it was coined by liberal academics and globalists during the [[Cold War]].</ref>

The party now is dominated by [[Progressive]] [[Millennial]]s reared in [[public school]]s and state universities to believe that the [[Constitution]] was written by a bunch of white-male slaveholders and needs to be torn up, and whites - the majority descended from immigrants after the [[Civil War]] or whose forebearers died to free the [[slave]]s - need to be punished. Gone are the [[labor union]]s which formed the backbone of the [[New Deal]] and [[Great Society]] coalitions, their jobs and living standards shipped to the [[Third World]] by [[globalist]]s in the name of "income equality" and leveling the playing field.<ref>If "Third World" is a "racist code word" as some progressives contend, it was coined by liberal academics and globalists during the [[Cold War]].</ref>

 

==Policies and criticism==

==Policies and criticism==