A report on Democratic Party (United States), Republican Party (United States) and Centrism

In 1990, Joachim Gauck (who is a former German President, centrist politician and activist without party affiliation) took part in the Alliance 90, having become an independent after its merger with The Greens

Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States (1829–1837) and the first Democratic president.

Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States (1861–1865) and the first Republican to hold the office

Campaign for the Norwegian Centre Party at Nærbø: like its Finnish and Swedish counterparts, the party has a strong focus on decentralisation, rural and agrarian issues

Martin Van Buren was the eighth president of the United States (1837–1841) and the second Democratic president.

Charles R. Jennison, an anti-slavery militia leader associated with the Jayhawkers from Kansas and an early Republican politician in the region

Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States (1869–1877)

The 1885 inauguration of Grover Cleveland, the only president with non-consecutive terms

James G. Blaine, 28th & 31st Secretary of State (1881; 1889–1892)

Leaders of the Democratic Party during the first half of the 20th century on 14 June 1913: Secretary of State William J. Bryan, Josephus Daniels, President Woodrow Wilson, Breckinridge Long, William Phillips, and Franklin D. Roosevelt

William McKinley, 25th president of the United States (1897–1901)

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, 32nd and 33rd presidents of the United States (1933–1945; 1945–1953), featured on a campaign poster for the 1944 presidential election

Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States (1901–1909)

John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, 35th and 36th presidents of the United States (1961–1963, 1963–1969)

Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States (1929–1933)

Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States (1977–1981), delivering the State of the Union Address in 1979

Ronald Reagan, 40th president of the United States (1981–1989)

Bill Clinton, 42nd president of the United States (1993–2001), at The Pentagon in 1998

Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States (2017–2021)

Barack Obama speaking to College Democrats of America in 2007

Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States (1923–1929)

President Barack Obama meeting with the Blue Dog Coalition in the State Dining Room of the White House in 2009

Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38th governor of California (2003–2011)

Eleanor Roosevelt at the 1956 Democratic National Convention in Chicago

John McCain, United States senator from Arizona (1987–2018)

President Barack Obama signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law at the White House on March 23, 2010

Donald Rumsfeld, 21st United States Secretary of Defense (2001–2006)

Secretary of State John Kerry addressing delegates at the United Nations before signing the Paris Agreement on April 22, 2016

Colin Powell, 65th United States Secretary of State (2001–2005)

Shirley Chisholm was the first major-party African American candidate to run nationwide primary campaigns.

Newt Gingrich, 50th Speaker of the House of Representatives (1995–1999)

President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Immigration Act of 1965 as Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Senators Edward M. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy and others look on

Annual population growth in the U.S. by county - 2010s

Then-Senator Barack Obama shaking hands with an American soldier in Basra, Iraq in 2008

This map shows the vote in the 2020 presidential election by county.

President Jimmy Carter and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in 1978

Political Spectrum Libertarian Left Centrist Right Authoritarian

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting with President Barack Obama at Ben Gurion Airport in 2013

U.S. opinion on gun control issues is deeply divided along political lines, as shown in this 2021 survey.

Self-identified Democrats (blue) versus self-identified Republicans (red) (January–June 2010 data)

Higher percentages of Democrats than Republicans are members of union households.

Elected at age 33, Jon Ossoff is currently the youngest member of the U.S. Senate.

Hillary Clinton was the first woman to be nominated for president by a major party.

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg

Julián Castro served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Its main political rival has been the Republican Party since the 1850s.

- Democratic Party (United States)

Since the mid-1850s, it has been the main political rival of the Democratic Party.

- Republican Party (United States)

In the modern day, it is a big-tent coalition that encompasses a wide variety of ideological factions, including but not limited to conservatives, libertarians, and right-leaning centrists.

- Republican Party (United States)

In the modern day, it is a big-tent coalition that encompasses a wide variety of ideological factions, including but not limited to liberals and left-leaning centrists.

- Democratic Party (United States)

Harry Truman, who served as U.S. president from 1945 until 1953, is regarded as a centrist Democrat, while Dwight Eisenhower, who was the president from 1953 to 1961, is regarded as a centrist Republican.

- Centrism

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Bill Clinton

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American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

Clinton in Hot Springs High School's 1963 yearbook

Photo of Clinton at age 17 shaking hands with President John F. Kennedy at the White House in 1963

Clinton ran for president of the Student Council while attending the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

Results of the 1978 Arkansas gubernatorial election. Clinton won the counties in blue.

Newly elected Governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton meets with President Jimmy Carter, 1978

Governor and Mrs. Clinton attend the Dinner Honoring the Nation's Governors in the White House with President Ronald Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan, 1987.

The Clintons in a White House Christmas portrait

1992 electoral vote results. Clinton won 370–168.

1996 electoral vote results. Clinton won 379–159.

Clinton and Vice President Al Gore on the South Lawn, August 10, 1993

Yitzhak Rabin, Clinton and Yasser Arafat during the Oslo Accords on September 13, 1993

Clinton's coat of arms, granted by the Chief Herald of Ireland in 1995

Future president Donald Trump and Clinton shaking hands at Trump Tower, June 2000

Col. Paul Fletcher, USAF and Clinton speak before boarding Air Force One, November 4, 1999

Clinton shaking hands with Gerry Adams outside a business in East Belfast, November 30, 1995

Clinton plays the saxophone presented to him by Russian president Boris Yeltsin at a private dinner in Russia, January 13, 1994

Clinton during a briefing on Kosovo, March 31, 1999.

Clinton and Chinese president Jiang Zemin holding a joint press conference at the White House, October 29, 1997

Ruth Bader Ginsburg accepting her nomination to the Supreme Court from President Clinton, 1993

Clinton's approval ratings throughout his presidential career (Roper Center)

Clinton addressing the Parliament of Great Britain on November 29, 1995

Clinton and Monica Lewinsky on February 28, 1997

Clinton greets a Hurricane Katrina evacuee, September 5, 2005. In the background, second from the right, is then-Senator Barack Obama.

Former president George H. W. Bush and Clinton in the White House Library, January 2005

Clinton speaking at the 2008 Democratic National Convention

The state funeral of George H. W. Bush in December 2018

Clinton with then-President Barack Obama and Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett in July 2010

Clinton, his wife Hillary, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New York City on September 29, 2014

Clinton campaigning at an election rally for his wife Hillary who was running for President of the United States, 2016

Clinton speaking at the 2016 Democratic National Convention

Secretary of Defense Cohen presents President Clinton the DoD Medal for Distinguished Public Service.

Bill Clinton statue in Ballybunion, erected to commemorate his 1998 golfing visit

Bill Clinton statue in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo

Former President Bill Clinton is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by then president Barack Obama.

Clinton during the signing of the Israel–Jordan peace treaty, with Yitzhak Rabin (left) and King Hussein of Jordan (right)

A member of the Democratic Party, Clinton became known as a New Democrat, as many of his policies reflected a centrist "Third Way" political philosophy.

Clinton was elected president in the 1992 presidential election, defeating incumbent Republican president George H. W. Bush and independent businessman Ross Perot.

Big tent

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Used in reference to a political party's policy of permitting or encouraging a broad spectrum of views among its members.

It is composed of Republican Proposal (right), Civic Coalition ARI (centre-right) and Radical Civic Union (centre).

The Democratic Party during the New Deal coalition, formed in support of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policies from 1930s until 1960s, was a "big-tent" party.

In counter to the New Deal coalition, the Republican Party was for much of its history a "big tent" party that encompassed a wide range of right-wing and center-right causes, including a wide range of politicians who were fiscally conservative and socially moderate or liberal and vice versa.