The Democratic party is so consumed by TDS that there is literally no room left for any positive policy agenda.

J. Scott Applewhite The Associated Press Is the Democrat Party going in the same direction that the Whig Party went in 1856? Since 2009, the Democrats have lost more than 900 seats in state ...

The Whig Party, the more conservative of the two major U.S. political parties in the mid-19th century, had a sizable ...

The Whig Party formed out of the National Republican Party, the leaders of which were John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay. They were nationalists, supported internal improvements and moral reforms ...

Much of this early success was due to the demise of the Whig Party, weakened by internal dissent over national issues like slavery. Some former Whigs defected to the Know-Nothings while others ...

This difference became especially pronounced by the 1830s, when a growing divide between Andrew Jackson’s Democratic party and the opposition Whig party came to define the American political debate.

Due to his military career, William Henry Harrison became the frontrunner of the Whig Party—a new political faction assembled by opposition to Jackson. Despite his aristocratic Virginian roots, the ...

Franklin Pierce was the lackluster choice of the Democratic Party in 1852, nominated after 48 ballots. In a campaign devoid of issues—for example, both parties endorsed the Compromise of 1850—Pierce ...