Both of the major parties and we're talking about the United States here hold a national convention during the summer before the actual general election.

You know, ratings in the 70s on a 100 point scale.

So, how warm or cold do you feel about, you know,

That's the place all filled up with Republicans.

Do you think the Democratic Party will get the better of the Republican Party?

435 representatives, plus 100 senators, and 3 electors from the District of Columbia.

This was eight years ago, some people were more Republican back then.

I look like a republican.

And so some really nice things came together.

Think about it. Do you live in a safe state?

Raise medical health care contributions?

long term deficit trajectory?

It's really a you can kind of view it as an election

President Obama saved the auto industry and saved a million jobs. Applause

Roughly a third of Americans say that they are Democrats.

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In a conflict where our national security or financial interests aren't at stake

You know, yesterday, your featured speaker came here and said that the election in November isn't about two people.

It's kind of like just a election that is based on party for whom do you want to be your nominee at coming out of the convention

Many Republicans did not vote for their own candidate.

Dear 48, I promise to listen to you, to fight for you, to respect you always.

But to a liberal, it sounds like this dog is running for the Republican nomination.

Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Georgia or Virginia.

And he's the lead in an op ed I did about the Republican Convention.

I see an america that lost its way republicrats replublicans and democrats who are both very much stand for the same thing

They would certainly slow our recovery, and cost us hundreds of thousands of jobs.

One by one

We have to invest in it. Applause

You have Democrats overwhelmingly supportive of raising the income tax on people who make 250,000 dollars a year,

The GOP accused the Democrats of pork barrel politics.

In the next election, the Democratic Party is expected to get the better of the Republican Party.

More to the point, he knew it posed no threat to his election quite the contrary.

And the English set up Cromwell and a whole bunch of Republicans or whatever, and not the kind of Republicans we had.

Let me do candidates D, E and F

And I was proud to join 23 Republicans in voting for it.

Never mind that not one of the governors who preached that gospel in Tampa last week has the results to show for it.

You have all the delegates over here, and everyone's all excited and they start to cheer lead for their party. and for their candidate the republican national convetion

You are a member of the British Communist Party?

They announced very publicly that they're shifting funds to the political opposition.

The newspaper declared for the Republican candidate.

Four years ago, America stood on the brink of a depression.

Everyone hates that equally, but Republicans and Democrats hate that together.

Video April 17th, 1975.

Mean to die nameless?

This brings up a really important point, which is that we tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans and think there's this little group over there called independents that's, what, two percent?