Democrats have won 19 of 42 presidential elections since the party first ran a presidential candidate (Andrew Jackson) in 1828. While there is no precise date for the beginning of the Democratic ...

The 1828 campaign was for Jackson to call for ... would now be known as the National Republicans. The Democratic Party was ...

Karl Rove contends that the president ‘presided over the Tariff of Abominations.’ This requires some clarification.

In1824 there was a realignment after a controversial election gave John Quincy Adams the presidency. For one, Adams led a more centrist wing of the Democratic Republicans which had absorbed most of ...