Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
He continued to caucus with the Democrats and referred to himself as an independent Democrat. [30] [31] Patrick Lucey was a Democrat who ran as an independent as a vice-presidential candidate in 1980 with John B. Anderson. [32] David Orr, who served as Mayor of Chicago briefly in 1987, entered politics as an independent Democrat. [33]
Third-party and independent members of the United States Congress are generally rare. Although the Republican and Democratic parties have dominated U.S. politics in a two-party system since 1856, some independents and members of other political parties have also been elected to the House of Representatives or Senate, or changed their party affiliation during their term.
An independent voter, often also called an unaffiliated voter or non-affiliated voter in the United States, is a voter who does not align themselves with a political party.An independent is variously defined as a voter who votes for candidates on issues rather than on the basis of a political ideology or partisanship; [1] a voter who does not have long-standing loyalty to, or identification ...
He was a Republican, then a Democrat (1932–1947), then a Progressive (1947–1953) 1952 – Wayne Morse, U.S. senator from Oregon (1945–1969), changed from Republican to Independent in 1952 [435] and Independent to Democrat on February 17, 1955 [436] 1974 – D. French Slaughter Jr., while a Virginia state delegate became an independent ...
Independent Amash became an independent on July 4, 2019, and then a Libertarian on April 29, 2020. [1] April 29, 2020 Independent Libertarian: Jeff Van Drew: New Jersey: 2nd: December 19, 2019 116th: Democratic: Republican: Van Drew switched parties in the wake of the first impeachment of Donald Trump, which he opposed. Paul Mitchell: Michigan ...
Super PACs, advocacy groups push for Democrats, independents to cast GOP ballots The latest group to make a veiled attempt at trying to encourage any registered voter to turnout is Stand For ...
No independent or third-party candidate has won an electoral vote in more than half a century, never mind the 270 needed to claim the presidency, but Messina said Biden and his team still need to ...
Independents broke for Democrats. Independents broke slightly for the Democrats nationally — 49% to 47% — and they sided with Biden’s party even more decisively in key Senate contests.