Encyclopedia > Unofficial organizations for Democrats
Unofficial organizations for Democrats are those bodies, not officially affiliated with the United States Democratic Party, but primarily intended for the participation of people who are at least self-described Democrats.
These are distinguished from official Democratic organizations such as
state or local affilated party organizations that nominate and/or endorse candidates for the "Democrat" slates in the corresponding state or local elections, and participate in the selection of delegates to higher-level Democratic conventions,
officially affiliated caucuses, and similar organizations, intended on one hand to aid factions, tendencies, or demographic or occupation categories to organize themselves in the furtherance of their collective influence in the party, and on the other hand to facilitate effective recruitment of those constituencies in the activities of the party (for example, the Young Democrats of America), and
Of the two major U.S. parties, the Democratic Party is to the left of the Republican Party, though its politics are not as consistently leftist as the traditional social democratic and labor parties in much of the rest of the world.
Defeated Democrat Hubert Humphrey's electoral votes came mainly from the Northern states, marking a dramatic shift from the 1948 election 20 years earlier, when the losing Republican candidate's electoral votes were mainly concentrated in the Northern states.
The New Democrats are a grouping of centrists, formally organized as the Democratic Leadership Council.
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