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PhillySane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 08:55 AM Original message |
Ever wonder about the names of our two major political parties? |
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LeftinOH (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 09:05 AM Response to Original message |
1. Word usage is always in flux: "The Democratic People's Republic of Korea" is |
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PhillySane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 09:12 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Right, what's in a name |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 10:06 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Here's how you deal with that: |
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PhillySane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 10:17 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Right, as long as |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 10:24 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Agreed, but I like to quote "We, the people..." to the RWingers. |
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PhillySane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 10:26 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Pennsylvania is too |
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Larkspur (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 09:24 AM Response to Original message |
3. The Republican Party in the mid 19th century grew out of the remains of the Whig Party, which |
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PhillySane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 09:38 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Why, though |
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gmoney (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 09:39 AM Response to Original message |
5. That's why I consider myself a "Bull Moose" voter... |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 10:30 AM Response to Original message |
10. The Democratic Party was once known as the Democratic-Republican Party or Republican Party: |
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PhillySane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 10:48 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. So what about that Democratic-Republican thing |
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