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  • adjective US politics Of or pertaining to the Democratic Party.
  • adjective rare Of or pertaining to democracy: democratic.

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Examples

  • EVEN WITH POLLS STILL OPEN, DEMOCRATIC BLAME GAME BEGINNING - Sam Stein on some Sunday evening quarterbacking: I n an early salvo to manage the narrative, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee sent over results of a PPP poll it commissioned showing that likely voters in New Hampshire's 2nd district would have soundly rejected the more centrist Democratic candidate had she actually won.

    HUFFPOST HILL - NOVEMBER 2ND, 2010 The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • EVEN WITH POLLS STILL OPEN, DEMOCRATIC BLAME GAME BEGINNING - Sam Stein on some Sunday evening quarterbacking: In an early salvo to manage the narrative, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee sent over results of a PPP poll it commissioned showing that likely voters in New Hampshire's 2nd district would have soundly rejected the more centrist Democratic candidate had she actually won.

    HUFFPOST HILL - NOVEMBER 2ND, 2010 The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • KENNEDY: I am -- I am confident that the Democratic Party will reunite on the basis of democratic principles and that together we will march toward a Democratic victory in 1980.

    CNN Transcript Aug 26, 2009 2009

  • I think after ignoring black democratic voters all these years and now with a black man running as a Democratic candidate you people think you have a change to wreak havoc on the Democratic constituency.

    Hillary Supporter Andrew Cuomo On Her NH Win: "You Can't Shuck And Jive" w/Press Corps 2009

  • I am confident that the Democratic Party will reunite on the basis of democratic principles and that together we will march towards a Democratic victory in 1980.

    CNN Transcript Aug 26, 2009 2009

  • The liberal Democratic senator from California joined the ranks of politician-novelists in 2005 with “A Time to Run,” a tale concerning one Ellen Fischer, who just happens to be a liberal ­Democratic senator from California.

    Conniving In the Capital 2009

  • At the same time you attempt to claim that you are somehow more democratic and more of a Democrat than people who dislike another Democratic candidate.

    Hillary Personally Addresses Question Of Whether She Wants MSNBC's Shuster Fired 2009

  • So it's a democratic state but it's not as Democratic as people think.

    CNN Transcript Nov 2, 2009 2009

  • Easy explanation is racist democratic voters, although the losing Democratic candidates all lost to repug incumbents, so it could simply be the incumbent effect.

    Franken Camp's Claim: We're Now Ahead! 2009

  • KAREN FINNEY, COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR, DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE: Well, and I think, actually, he's off to a good start on that note, because he's going to meet with the Democratic leaders and then he is going to meet with the Republican leaders.

    CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2009 2009

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