Yet when the Democratic Party presidential primaries were over, Carter came away with a massive lead in delegates, winning 2,239 compared to Wallace’s 57 and California Governor Jerry Brown’s 301.

Without Mr. Carter’s image of weakness on national security and defense, for example, it is hard to imagine the party’s war-hero candidate for president in 2004 introducing himself with a ...

State Sen. Robin Webb's decision to leave the Democratic Party is reflective of the state and national party's struggle to ...

Still, they had their differences. Biden was critical of Carter for not being able to pull off a transformation of the Democratic Party. “He couldn’t overcome the orthodoxies of the Democratic ...

Carter was so out of his depth that it was his own party that tried to dispatch him before Ronald Reagan could. Ted Kennedy ’s challenge to Carter in 1980 was not akin to Pat Buchanan going ...

The primary challenge to Carter from Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) left the Democratic Party divided and contributed to wilderness years that lasted a decade. Advertisement ...

Several state and federal lawmakers, along with political allies, have switched their party affiliation in recent months.

Democratic Party faces a crisis after President Trump's narrow victory and Republican takeover ... “The 1980 presidential election traumatized the Democratic party. Its candidate, Jimmy Carter, ...

While many ordinary Americans engaged in the most kinetic kind of politics, the Democratic National Committee was splintering ...

We need two functional parties, and the Democratic Party needs to prove that its leaders care more about mainstream problems ...