Political Parties
The two major political parties in California that currently have representation in the State Legislature and U.S. Congress are the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. There are four other parties that qualify for official ballot status: the American Independent Party, Green Party, Libertarian Party, and Peace and Freedom Party.
Of the 17,304,091 California voters registered for the November 4, 2008, general election:
- 44.4% were Democrats
- 31.3% were Republicans
- 4.4% were affiliated with other political parties
- 19.9% were unaffiliated ("Decline to State" or "No Party Preference") voters
Read more about this topic: Politics Of California
Famous quotes containing the words political parties, political and/or parties:
“All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.”
—John Arbuthnot (1667–1735)
“It is time that we start thinking about foundational issues: about our attitudes toward fair trials... Who are the People in a multicultural society?... The victims of discrimination are now organized. Blacks, Jews, gays, women—they will no longer tolerate second-class status. They seek vindication for past grievances in the trials that take place today, the new political trial.”
—George P. Fletcher, U.S. law educator. With Justice for Some, p. 6, Addison-Wesley (1995)
“she cannot understand
What she wants or why she wanders to that undiscovered land,
For the parties there are not at all the sort of thing she planned,
In the land where the dead dreams go.”
—Alfred Noyes (1880–1958)