Presidential Elections 2008/Chapter 2: The Republican and Democratic Party

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The Republican Party

Preface (by Robert)

The Republican Party is one of the two major political parties in the United States.
It is often called as GRAND OLD PARTY / GOP.

The Republican Party was founded in 1854 in Ripon, Wisconsin against the diffusion of the slavery.
The first time, when the Republicans came to power was in 1680 with the election of Abraham Lincoln.

The Party Chairman of the Republicans is Mike Duncan,
the Senate Leader is Mitch McConnell,
the House Leader is John Boehner and
the Headquarters of the second largest party is in Washington D. C.

Their political ideologies are Abolitionism, Classical liberalism, Progressivism,
Paleoconservatism, Conservatism, Social conservatism, Neoconservatism and
Classical Liberalism.
That shows that the Republican Party is the conservative party of the tho major parties.

The current president of the USA George W. Busch is from the Republican Party.
The party's nominee for President in the upcoming 2008 election is Senator John McCain of Arizona,
and the party's nominee for Vice-President is Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska.

History (by Michael)

The Republican Party was founded in 1854, as a connection of the Free-Soil-Party, some parts of the Democratic party and the rests of the Whig-party, to oppose slavery. The Party nominated Abraham Lincoln and ascended to power in the election of 1860. . His election was followed by the Civil War, during the Civil War the Republican party became the majority. The Republicans retained control of the White House for all the time between 1860 and 1932, except for 16 years.
The presidents in this period were Ulysses S. Grant, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Warren G. Tuding, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover. After this successful war the party became very powerful, but in 1872 the left wing and in 1912 the progressive one split off.
It became a conservative party that tried to represent industry and banks and after it followed a very imperalistic foreign policy. At the time of Theodor Roosevelt, who governed the country from 1901 to 1909, the party moved towards the middle class, after that they lost a lot of voters, because of the world economic crisis and the “New Deal” policy of the Democrats.
After 20 years of Democratic presidents Dwight.D. Eisenhower became president in 1953. And after two lost elections Nixon was the next Republican president in 1968. He decided some changes in foreign policy, like the Vietnam-war, but he retreat in 1974 after a political affair.
The next Republican presidents were Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and his son George W. Bush. Today the Republican is defined by social conservatism, an aggressive foreign policy to defeat terrorism and promote global democracy.