Partia Demokratike (ShBA): Dallime mes rishikimesh

| [[Liberalizmi modern]]<ref name="sarnold" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=June29 29,qershor 2012 |title=President Obama, the Democratic Party, and Socialism: A Political Science Perspective |work=The Huffington Post |url=https://huffingtonpost.com/benjamin-knoll/obama-romney-economy_b_1615862.html |url-status=live |access-date=January9 9,janar 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190324035220/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/benjamin-knoll/obama-romney-economy_b_1615862.html |archive-date=March24 24,mars 2019}}</ref><!-- Concise list of factions below. -->

| Qendra<ref name="jhale">{{Cite book |last=Hale |first=John |title=The Making of the New Democrats |publisher=[[Political Science Quarterly]] |year=1995 |location=New York |page=229}}</ref><ref name="DewanKornblut2006">{{Cite news |last1=Dewan |first1=Shaila |last2=Kornblut |first2=Anne E. |date=October30 30,tetor 2006 |title=In Key House Races, Democrats Run to the Right |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/30/us/politics/30dems.html |access-date=January 28, janar 2017 |archive-date=July 27, korrik 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190727021022/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/30/us/politics/30dems.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

| [[Progresivizmi]]<ref name="SteinCornwellTanfani2018">{{Cite news |last1=Stein |first1=Letita |last2=Cornwell |first2=Susan |last3 =Tanfani |first3 =Joseph |date=August23 23,gusht 2018 |title=Inside the progressive movement roiling the Democratic Party |work=[[Reuters]] |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-progressives-specialrepo/inside-the-progressive-movement-roiling-the-democratic-party-idUSKCN1L81GI |access-date=June 13, 2022|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220613163545/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-progressives-specialrepo/inside-the-progressive-movement-roiling-the-democratic-party-idUSKCN1L81GI|archive-date=June13 13,qershor 2022}}</ref>

| [[Social demokracia]]<ref>{{bulleted list|{{Cite web |last=Ball |first=Molly |title=The Battle Within the Democratic Party |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/12/the-battle-within-the-democratic-party/282235/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612142340/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/12/the-battle-within-the-democratic-party/282235/ |archive-date=June 12, qershor 2018 |access-date=January 28, janar 2017 |website=[[The Atlantic]]}}|{{cite magazine |last1=Chotiner |first1=Isaac |title=How Socialist Is Bernie Sanders? |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-socialist-is-bernie-sanders |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |access-date=February 14, shkurt 2021 |language=en-us |date=March 2, mars 2020}}|{{Cite news|url=https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-six-wings-of-the-democratic-party/|title=The Six Wings Of The Democratic Party|first=Perry Jr.|last=Bacon|work = [[FiveThirtyEight]]|date=March 11, mars 2019}}}}</ref>

| governing_body = [[Democratic National Committee]]<ref>{{cite web |title=About the Democratic Party |url=https://democrats.org/who-we-are/about-the-democratic-party/ |website=Democratic Party |access-date=15 Aprilprill 2022 |quote=For 171 years, [the Democratic National Committee] has been responsible for governing the Democratic Party}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Democratic Party |title=The Charter & The Bylaws of the Democratic Party of the United States |url=https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/DNC-Charter-Bylaws-03.12.2022.pdf#page=5 |access-date=15 Aprilprill 2022 |page=3 |date=12 Marchmars 2022 |quote=The Democratic National Committee shall have general responsibility for the affairs of the Democratic Party between National Conventions}}</ref>

| membership = {{increase}} 47,194,492<ref>{{Cite web |last=Winger |first=Richard |title=August 2022 Ballot Access News Print Edition |url= https://ballot-access.org/2022/09/04/august-2022-ballot-access-news-print-edition/ |access-date=September 8, shtator 2022|website=Ballot Access News}}</ref>

'''Partia Demokratike''' është një nga dy partitë kryesore politike bashkëkohore në Shtetet e Bashkuara . E themeluar në 1828, ajo u ndërtua kryesisht nga [[Martin Van Buren]], i cili mblodhi një kuadër të gjerë politikanësh në çdo shtet, mbështetës të heroit të luftës [[Andrew Jackson]], duke e bërë atë partinë më të vjetër politike aktive në botë. <ref name=":9">M. Philip Lucas, "Martin Van Buren as Party Leader and at Andrew Jackson's Right Hand." in ''A Companion to the Antebellum Presidents 1837–1861'' (2014): 107–129.</ref> <ref name=":10">"The Democratic Party, founded in 1828, is the world's oldest political party" states {{Cite book |last=Kenneth Janda |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t_lC8k3SELMC&pg=PA276 |title=The Challenge of Democracy: American Government in Global Politics |last2=Jeffrey M. Berry |last3=Jerry Goldman |publisher=Cengage Learning |year=2010 |isbn=9780495906186 |page=276}}</ref> <ref name=":3">Michael Kazin, ''What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party'' (2022) pp 5, 12.</ref>Që nga vitet 1850, rivalja e saj kryesore është [[Partia Republikane (ShBA)|Partia Republikane]]. Partia është gjithëpërfshirëse, <ref>{{Cite news |last=Herndon |first=Astead W. |date=2021-02-21 |title=Democrats' Big Tent Helped Them Win. Now It Threatens Biden's Agenda. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/21/us/politics/biden-agenda-democrats.html |access-date=2022-08-23 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> dhe është më pak e njëtrajtshme ideologjikisht se Partia Republikane (me individë brenda saj që shpesh kanë pikëpamje të ndryshme politike ) për shkak të listës më të gjatë të grupeve të interesit që e përbëjnë atë, <ref name=":6">{{Cite journal |last=Lelkes |first=Yphtach |last2=Sniderman |first2=Paul M. |date=2016 |title=The Ideological Asymmetry of the American Party System |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-political-science/article/ideological-asymmetry-of-the-american-party-system/52D59CAD35259CA306598353E93272AC |journal=British Journal of Political Science |language=en |volume=46 |issue=4 |pages=825–844 |doi=10.1017/S0007123414000404 |issn=0007-1234}}</ref> <ref name=":7">{{Cite journal |last=Gidron |first=Noam |last2=Ziblatt |first2=Daniel |date=2019-05-11 |title=Center-Right Political Parties in Advanced Democracies |url=https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-polisci-090717-092750 |url-status=dead |journal=Annual Review of Political Science |language=en |volume=22 |issue=1 |pages=17–35 |doi=10.1146/annurev-polisci-090717-092750 |issn=1094-2939 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200226210155/https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-polisci-090717-092750 |archive-date=February 26, shkurt 2020 |access-date=November10 10,nëntor 2021}}</ref> <ref name=":8">{{Cite book |last=Grossman |first=Matt |url=https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190626594.001.0001/acprof-9780190626594 |title=Asymmetric Politics: Ideological Republicans and Group Interest Democrats |last2=Hopkins |first2=David A. |date=2016 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-062659-4 |doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190626594.001.0001}}</ref> <ref name="sarnold">{{Cite book |last=Arnold |first=N. Scott |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xGNRRwkZFysC |title=Imposing values: an essay on liberalism and regulation |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2009 |isbn=9780495501121 |page=3 |quote=Modern liberalism occupies the left-of-center in the traditional political spectrum and is represented by the Democratic Party in the United States. |access-date=April28 28,prill 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201002180929/https://books.google.com/books?id=xGNRRwkZFysC&hl=en |archive-date=October2 2,tetor 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite news |date=June29 29,qershor 2012 |title=President Obama, the Democratic Party, and Socialism: A Political Science Perspective |work=The Huffington Post |url=https://huffingtonpost.com/benjamin-knoll/obama-romney-economy_b_1615862.html |url-status=live |access-date=January9 9,janar 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190324035220/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/benjamin-knoll/obama-romney-economy_b_1615862.html |archive-date=March24 24,mars 2019}}</ref> megjithëse liberalizmi modern është ideologjia e shumicës në parti. <ref name="sarnold" /> <ref>{{Cite news |date=June29 29,qershor 2012 |title=President Obama, the Democratic Party, and Socialism: A Political Science Perspective |work=The Huffington Post |url=https://huffingtonpost.com/benjamin-knoll/obama-romney-economy_b_1615862.html |url-status=live |access-date=January9 9,janar 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190324035220/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/benjamin-knoll/obama-romney-economy_b_1615862.html |archive-date=March24 24,mars 2019}}</ref>

Paraardhësja historike e Partisë Demokratike konsiderohet të jetë [[Partia Demokratike-Republikane]] . <ref>{{Cite web |title=Major American Political Parties of the 19th Century |url=https://online.norwich.edu/academic-programs/resources/major-american-political-parties-of-the-19th-century |access-date=2022-07-04 |website=Norwich University Online |language=en |quote=...The Democratic-Republican and Whig parties are considered the predecessors of today's Democratic and Republican parties, respectively.}}</ref> <ref name=":4">The party has claimed a founding date of 1792 as noted in S.2047 which passed in the United States Senate in 1991. {{Citation |last=102nd Congress |title=S.2047 – A bill to establish a commission to commemorate the bicentennial of the establishment of the Democratic Party of the United States. |url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/102nd-congress/senate-bill/2047/text?r=90&s=1 |year=1991}} </ref> Përpara vitit 1860, Partia Demokratike mbështeste fuqitë presidenciale të zgjeruara, <ref name=":12">{{Cite book |last=Holt |first=Michael F. |title=Political Parties and American Political Development: From the Age of Jackson to the Age of Lincoln |publisher=[[Louisiana State University Press]] |year=1992 |isbn=978-0807126097 |pages=27–28}}</ref> interesat e shteteve të skllavërisë, <ref name=":13">{{Cite book |last=Bates |first=Christopher |title=The Early Republic and Antebellum America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] |year=2015 |isbn=9781317457404 |pages=293 |quote=The expansion engineered by Polk rendered the Democratic Party increasingly beholden to Southern slave interests, which dominated the party from 1848 to the Civil War.}}</ref> agrarianizmin, <ref name=":5">{{Cite web |last=Staff |title=Jacksonian Democracy: The Democratization of Politics |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/United-States/Jacksonian-democracy |access-date=October6 6,tetor 2022 |website=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |quote=By the 1840s, Whig and Democratic congressmen voted as rival blocs. Whigs supported and Democrats opposed a weak executive, a new Bank of the United States, a high tariff, distribution of land revenues to the states, relief legislation to mitigate the effects of the depression, and federal reapportionment of House seats. Whigs voted against and Democrats approved an independent treasury, an aggressive foreign policy, and expansionism. These were important issues, capable of dividing the electorate just as they divided the major parties in Congress.}}</ref> dhe [[Ekspansionizmi|ekspansionizmin]], <ref name=":5" /> ndërsa kundërshtonte një bankë kombëtare dhe [[Detyrimet doganore|tarifat]] e larta . <ref name=":5" /> Ajo u nda në 1860 sipas qëndrimit ndaj skllavërisë dhe e fitoi presidencën vetëm dy herë {{Efn|Grover Cleveland në 1884 dhe 1892 (megjithëse ka ende dyshime për mbarëvajtjen e proçesit zgjedhor në 1876)}} midis 1860 dhe 1910. Në fund të shekullit të 19-të, ajo vazhdonte të kundërshtonte tarifat e larta dhe pati debate të ashpra të brendshme rreth [[Standardi i arit|standardit të arit]] . Në fillim të shekullit të 20-të, ajo mbështeti reformat progresive dhe kundërshtoi imperializmin, me në krye [[Woodrow Wilson]] që fitoi Shtëpinë e Bardhë në zgjedhjet e 1912 dhe 1916 . Që nga [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] dhe koalicioni i tij New Deal pas vitit 1932, Partia Demokratike ka përkrahur një platformë [[Liberalizmi social|shoqërore liberale]], duke përfshirë sigurimet shoqërore dhe ndihmën për papunët . <ref>{{Cite journal |last=Geer |first=John G. |date=1992 |title=New Deal Issues and the American Electorate, 1952-1988 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/586295 |journal=Political Behavior |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=45–65 |doi=10.1007/BF00993508 |issn=0190-9320 |jstor=586295}}</ref> <ref name="sarnold">{{Cite book |last=Arnold |first=N. Scott |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xGNRRwkZFysC |title=Imposing values: an essay on liberalism and regulation |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2009 |isbn=9780495501121 |page=3 |quote=Modern liberalism occupies the left-of-center in the traditional political spectrum and is represented by the Democratic Party in the United States. |access-date=April28 28,prill 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201002180929/https://books.google.com/books?id=xGNRRwkZFysC&hl=en |archive-date=October2 2,tetor 2020 |url-status=live}}<cite class="citation book cs1" data-ve-ignore="true" id="CITEREFArnold2009">Arnold, N. Scott (2009). </cite></ref> <ref name="egrigsby">{{Cite book |last=Grigsby |first=Ellen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xGNRRwkZFysC |title=Analyzing Politics: An Introduction to Political Science |publisher=Cengage Learning |year=2008 |isbn=9780495501121 |pages=106–107 |quote=In the United States, the Democratic Party represents itself as the liberal alternative to the Republicans, but its liberalism is for the most part the later version of liberalism—modern liberalism. |access-date=April28 28,prill 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201002180930/https://books.google.com/books?id=xGNRRwkZFysC&hl=en |archive-date=October2 2,tetor 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> [[New Deal|Marrëveshja e Re]] u mbështet fort nga emigrantët e atëhershëm evropianë, por shkaktoi një rënie në mbështetjen e krahut konservator pro-biznes të partisë. <ref>{{Cite book |last=Prendergast |first=William B. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B9nFwo5B1BQC |title=The Catholic Voter in American Politics: The Passing of the Democratic Monolith |date=1999 |publisher=Georgetown University |isbn=978-0-87840-724-8 |location=Washington, D.C.}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite book |last=Marlin |first=George J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MBc6PgAACAAJ |title=The American Catholic Voter: 200 Years of Political Impact |date=2004 |publisher=St. Augustine |isbn=978-1-58731-029-4 |location=South Bend, Indiana |access-date=April28 28,prill 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201002180931/https://books.google.com/books?id=MBc6PgAACAAJ&hl=en |archive-date=October2 2,tetor 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> <ref>Michael Corbett et al. </ref> Pas epokës së Shoqërisë së Madhe të legjislacionit progresiv nën [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], duke përfshirë Medicare, Aktin e të Drejtave Civile të vitit 1964 dhe Aktin e të Drejtave të Votimit të vitit 1965, bazat e votuesve të partive u zhvendosën; shtetet jugore filluan të votonin bindshëm për republikanët dhe ato verilindore nisën të votonin bindshëm për demokratët më të besueshme. <ref name="gallup2010">{{Cite web |date=June 12, 2009 |title=Women More Likely to Be Democrats, Regardless of Age |url=http://www.gallup.com/poll/120839/Women-Likely-Democrats-Regardless-Age.aspx |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100614010429/http://www.gallup.com/poll/120839/Women-Likely-Democrats-Regardless-Age.aspx |archive-date=June 14, 2010 |access-date=June17 17,qershor 2010 |publisher=Gallup.com}}</ref> Ndikimi sindikatave në parti është zvogëluar që nga vitet 1970, <ref name=":14">{{Cite web |last=Levitz |first=Eric |date=2022-10-19 |title=How the Diploma Divide Is Remaking American Politics |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/10/education-polarization-diploma-divide-democratic-party-working-class.html |access-date=2022-10-21 |website=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |language=en-us |quote=Blue America is an increasingly wealthy and well-educated place. Throughout the second half of the 20th century, Americans without college degrees were more likely than university graduates to vote Democratic. But that gap began narrowing in the late 1960s before finally flipping in 2004... A more educated Democratic coalition is, naturally, a more affluent one... In every presidential election from 1948 to 2012, white voters in the top 5 percent of America's income distribution were more Republican than those in the bottom 95 percent. Now, the opposite is true: Among America's white majority, the rich voted to the left of the middle class and the poor in 2016 and 2020, while the poor voted to the right of the middle class and the rich.}}<cite class="citation web cs1" data-ve-ignore="true" id="CITEREFLevitz2022">Levitz, Eric (October 19, 2022). </cite></ref> <ref name=":20">{{Cite web |last=Kullgren |first=Ian |date=November 10, 2020 |title=Union Workers Weren't a Lock for Biden. Here's Why That Matters |url=https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/union-workers-werent-a-lock-for-biden-heres-why-that-matters |access-date=November3 3,nëntor 2022 |website=[[Bloomberg Law]] |language=en}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite book |last=Frank |first=Thomas |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/908628802 |title=Listen, liberal, or, What ever happened to the party of the people? |date=2016 |isbn=978-1-62779-539-5 |edition=First |location=New York |oclc=908628802}}</ref> dhe ndërsa elektorati amerikan u zhvendos në një drejtim më konservator pas presidencës së [[Ronald Reagan|Ronald Reaganit]], zgjedhja e [[Bill Klinton|Bill Clintonit]] e orientoi partinë drejt Rrugës së Tretë, duke përvetësuar politika ekonomike të orientuara nga tregu dhe politika kulturore liberale . <ref name=":25">{{Cite web |last=Geismer |first=Lily |date=2019-06-11 |title=Democrats and neoliberalism |url=https://www.vox.com/polyarchy/2019/6/11/18660240/democrats-neoliberalism |access-date=2022-11-05 |website=Vox |language=en |quote=The version of neoliberalism embedded in these policies understood a distinct role for government to stimulate market-oriented solutions to address social ills such as unemployment and poverty. It thereby aimed not to eradicate the welfare state but rather to reformulate it. It extended the importance of poverty alleviation, which had long served as a benchmark of liberal policy, and had many similarities with the basic ideas of the war on poverty.}}</ref> <ref name=":17">{{Cite journal |last=Hale |first=Jon F. |date=1995 |title=The Making of the New Democrats |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2152360 |journal=Political Science Quarterly |volume=110 |issue=2 |pages=207–232 |doi=10.2307/2152360 |issn=0032-3195 |jstor=2152360}}</ref> <ref name=":18">{{Cite news |last=Wills |first=Garry |date=1997-01-19 |title=The Clinton Principle |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/19/magazine/the-clinton-principle.html |access-date=2022-08-24 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite news |last=Edsall |first=Thomas B. |date=1998-06-28 |title=CLINTON AND BLAIR ENVISION A 'THIRD WAY' INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT |language=en-US |work=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1998/06/28/clinton-and-blair-envision-a-third-way-international-movement/0bc00486-bd6d-4da4-a970-5255d7aa25d8/ |access-date=2022-11-01 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> Në kohën e [[Barack Obama|Barack Obamës]] partia miratoi martesat e homoseksualëve dhe kaloi reformën e kujdesit shëndetësor të njohur si Obamacare.

Filozofia e Partisë Demokratike për liberalizmin modern amerikan ndërthur nocionet e lirisë civile dhe barazisë sociale me mbështetjen për një ekonomi kapitaliste të përzier . <ref name="Larry E. Sullivan 2009 p 291">Larry E. Sullivan. </ref> Reforma e qeverisjes së korporatave, [[mbrojtja e mjedisit]], mbështetja për punët e sindikuara, zgjerimi i programeve sociale, shkollimi i përballueshëm në kolegj, reforma e kujdesit shëndetësor, <ref>{{Cite news |last=Goodnough |first=Abby |last2=Kaplan |first2=Thomas |date=June28 28,qershor 2019 |title=Democrat vs. Democrat: How Health Care Is Dividing the Party |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/health/democratic-debate-healthcare.html |access-date=22 Julykorrik 2020}}</ref> mundësitë e barabarta dhe mbrojtja e konsumatorit përbëjnë thelbin e agjendës ekonomike të partisë. <ref name="jlevy">{{Cite book |last=Levy |first=Jonah |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xGNRRwkZFysC |title=The State after Statism: New State Activities in the Age of Liberalization |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=2006 |isbn=9780495501121 |page=198 |quote=In the corporate governance area, the center-left repositioned itself to press for reform. The Democratic Party in the United States used the postbubble scandals and the collapse of share prices to attack the Republican Party&nbsp;... Corporate governance reform fit surprisingly well within the contours of the center-left ideology. The Democratic Party and the SPD have both been committed to the development of the regulatory state as a counterweight to managerial authority, corporate power, and market failure.}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web |last=[[U.S. Department of State]] |title=A Mixed Economy: The Role of the Market |url=http://economics.about.com/od/howtheuseconomyworks/a/mixed_economy.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118100105/http://economics.about.com/od/howtheuseconomyworks/a/mixed_economy.htm |archive-date=January18 18,janar 2017 |publisher=[[About.com]]}}</ref> Për sa u përket çështjet sociale, ajo mbron reformën e financimit të fushatës, <ref name="ontheissues.org">{{Cite web |title=Democratic Party on Government Reform |url=http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Democratic_Party_Government_Reform.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160430084041/http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Democratic_Party_Government_Reform.htm |archive-date=April 30, prill 2016 |access-date=January19 19,janar 2015 |publisher=Ontheissues.org}}</ref> të drejtat LGBT, <ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=September4 4,shtator 2012 |title=Democratic Platform Endorses Gay Marriage |url=https://www.npr.org/2012/09/04/160562404/democratic-platform-endorses-gay-marriage |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005001326/http://www.npr.org/2012/09/04/160562404/democratic-platform-endorses-gay-marriage |archive-date=October 5, 2013 |access-date=October2 2,tetor 2013 |website=All Things Considered |publisher=Npr.org}}</ref> drejtësinë penale <ref>{{Cite web |title=PROTECTING COMMUNITIES AND BUILDING TRUST BY REFORMING OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM |url=https://democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/protecting-communities-and-building-trust-by-reforming-our-criminal-justice-system/ |access-date=30 Novembernëntor 2021 |publisher=Democratic Party}}</ref> dhe reformën e imigracionit, <ref>{{Cite web |last=Chammah |first=Maurice |date=July18 18,korrik 2016 |title=Two Parties, Two Platforms on Criminal Justice |url=https://www.themarshallproject.org/2016/07/18/two-parties-two-platforms-on-criminal-justice |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190531162731/https://www.themarshallproject.org/2016/07/18/two-parties-two-platforms-on-criminal-justice |archive-date=May 31, maj 2019 |access-date=May22 22,maj 2019 |publisher=[[The Marshall Project]]}}</ref> ligje më të rrepta për armët, <ref>{{Cite web |title=Preventing Gun Violence |url=https://democrats.org/issues/preventing-gun-violence/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181104232429/https://democrats.org/issues/preventing-gun-violence/ |archive-date=2018-11-04 |access-date=May22 22,maj 2019 |publisher=Democrats.org}}</ref> të drejtat e abortit, <ref>{{Cite web |title=Democratic Party on Abortion |url=https://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Democratic_Party_Abortion.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200911161207/https://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Democratic_Party_Abortion.htm |archive-date=September 11, shtator 2020 |access-date=August5 5,gusht 2020 |publisher=OnTheIssues.org}}</ref> dhe legalizimin e marjuanës . <ref>{{Cite web |last=Gurley |first=Gabrielle |date=2020-11-23 |title=Biden at the Cannabis Crossroads |url=https://prospect.org/api/content/1ee9a272-2b7f-11eb-b7ea-1244d5f7c7c6/ |access-date=2022-08-24 |website=[[The American Prospect]] |language=en-us}}</ref> Që nga fillimi i viteve 2010, Partia Demokratike është zhvendosur ndjeshëm majtas për çështjet sociale, kulturore dhe fetare. <ref name=":2">{{Cite news |last=Zengerle |first=Jason |last2=Metz |first2=Justin |date=2022-06-29 |title=The Vanishing Moderate Democrat |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/29/magazine/moderate-democrat.html |access-date=2022-07-20 |issn=0362-4331 |quote=Over the last decade, the Democratic Party has moved significantly to the left on almost every salient political issue ... on social, cultural and religious issues, particularly those related to criminal justice, race, abortion and gender identity, the Democrats have taken up ideological stances that many of the college-educated voters who now make up a sizable portion of the party's base cheer ... .}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web |last=Cooper |first=Ryan |date=2022-06-30 |title='Moderate' Democrats Are Anything But |url=https://prospect.org/api/content/e1c9dba4-f7fc-11ec-b853-12274efc5439/ |access-date=2022-11-09 |website=The American Prospect}}</ref>

Gratë, të rinjtë amerikanë, njerëzit që jetojnë në [[zona urbane]] dhe të diplomuarit, si dhe shumica e pakicave racore, fetare dhe seksuale kanë më shumë gjasa të mbështesin Partinë Demokratike. <ref name=":22">{{Cite web |last=Alberta |first=Tim |date=2022-11-03 |title=Why Democrats Are Losing Hispanic Voters |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/11/hispanic-voters-fleeing-democratic-party/671851/ |access-date=2022-11-04 |website=The Atlantic |language=en |quote=Indeed, this is what makes the implications of a Hispanic partisan realignment so profound: At a moment when Democrats have begun to dominate the affluent, college-educated vote that for decades formed the cornerstone of the Republican coalition, perhaps the only thing that can keep the GOP competitive is an infusion of support from the very middle- and working-class Hispanics who were, at this moment in history, supposed to deliver the Democrats a foolproof majority.}}</ref> <ref name=":23">{{Cite web |last=Ackley |first=Kate |date=November 2, 2022 |title=Midterms' final stretch marked by fights in unexpected places |url=https://www.rollcall.com/2022/11/02/midterms-final-stretch-marked-by-fights-in-unexpected-places/ |access-date=November4 4,nëntor 2022 |website=Roll Call |language=en |quote=Democrats have gained support among more college-educated and affluent voters, as Republicans have made inroads with working-class voters, including minority voters. And House Republicans may expand their number of members who are Black, Hispanic, and Asian American, as the party has more minority House candidates... than in any previous cycle.}}</ref> <ref name=":14">{{Cite web |last=Levitz |first=Eric |date=2022-10-19 |title=How the Diploma Divide Is Remaking American Politics |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/10/education-polarization-diploma-divide-democratic-party-working-class.html |access-date=2022-10-21 |website=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |language=en-us |quote=Blue America is an increasingly wealthy and well-educated place. Throughout the second half of the 20th century, Americans without college degrees were more likely than university graduates to vote Democratic. But that gap began narrowing in the late 1960s before finally flipping in 2004... A more educated Democratic coalition is, naturally, a more affluent one... In every presidential election from 1948 to 2012, white voters in the top 5 percent of America's income distribution were more Republican than those in the bottom 95 percent. Now, the opposite is true: Among America's white majority, the rich voted to the left of the middle class and the poor in 2016 and 2020, while the poor voted to the right of the middle class and the rich.}}</ref> <ref name="trends">{{Cite web |date=2018-03-20 |title=1. Trends in party affiliation among demographic groups |url=http://www.people-press.org/2018/03/20/1-trends-in-party-affiliation-among-demographic-groups/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605002725/https://www.people-press.org/2018/03/20/1-trends-in-party-affiliation-among-demographic-groups/ |archive-date=June5 5,qershor 2020 |access-date=2018-12-29 |publisher=Pew Research Center |language=en-US}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web |last=Brownstein |first=Ronald |date=May 21, 2019 |title=The Democratic Party is being transformed. These House votes show how. |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/21/politics/house-democrats-united-vote-urban-suburban-districts/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190521153450/https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/21/politics/house-democrats-united-vote-urban-suburban-districts/index.html |archive-date=May 21, maj 2019 |access-date=May22 22,maj 2019 |publisher=[[CNN]]}}</ref> <ref name=":15">{{Cite news |last=Munis |first=Kal |date=October 20, 2022 |title=Why Resentful Rural Americans Vote Republican |work=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/20/midterms-rural-urban-divide-resentment/ |access-date=October21 21,tetor 2022 |quote=...that the disproportionately White, older, more religious, less affluent and less highly educated voters who live in rural areas are more likely to hold socially conservative views generally championed by Republicans. Meanwhile, urban areas are filled with younger, more racially diverse, more highly educated and more affluent people who hold the more socially liberal views generally championed by Democrats.}}</ref> Që nga vitet 1980, partia ka njohur mbështetje në rritje midis të bardhëve të arsimuar në universitet dhe mbështetje të pakësuar midis anëtarëve të klasës së bardhë punëtore . <ref name=":23" /> <ref name=":162">{{Cite web |last=Teixeira |first=Ruy |date=2022-11-06 |title=Democrats' Long Goodbye to the Working Class |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/11/democrats-long-goodbye-to-the-working-class/672016/ |access-date=2022-11-08 |website=The Atlantic |language=en |quote=From 2012 to 2020, the Democrats not only saw their support among white working-class voters — those without college degrees — crater, they also saw their advantage among nonwhite working-class voters fall by 18 points. And between 2016 and 2020 alone, the Democratic advantage among Hispanic voters declined by 16 points, overwhelmingly driven by the defection of working-class voters. In contrast, Democrats' advantage among white college-educated voters improved by 16 points from 2012 to 2020, an edge that delivered Joe Biden the White House.}}</ref> <ref name=":14" /> <ref name=":11">{{Cite news |last=Cohn |first=Nate |date=2022-07-13 |title=Poll Shows Tight Race for Control of Congress as Class Divide Widens |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/13/upshot/poll-2022-midterms-congress.html |access-date=2022-08-27 |issn=0362-4331 |quote=But the cofluence of economic problems and resurgent cultural issues has helped turn the emerging class divide in the Democratic coalition into a chasm, as Republicans appear to be making new inroads among nonwhite and working class voters... For the first time in a Times/Siena national survey, Democrats had a larger share of support among white college graduates than among nonwhite voters - a striking indication of the shifting balance of political energy...}}</ref> . Tre nga nëntë gjyqtarët e Gjykatës së Lartë të SHBA-së janë emëruar nga presidentë demokratë. Sipas anëtarëve të regjistruar (në ato shtete që lejojnë ose kërkojnë regjistrim sipas përkatësisë partiake ), Partia Demokratike është partia më e madhe në Shtetet e Bashkuara dhe e treta më e madhe në botë . Duke përfshirë edhe presidentin aktual, [[Joe Biden]], 16 demokratë kanë shërbyer si [[Kryetari i Shteteve të Bashkuara|President i Shteteve të Bashkuara]] . <ref name="sarnold">{{Cite book |last=Arnold |first=N. Scott |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xGNRRwkZFysC |title=Imposing values: an essay on liberalism and regulation |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2009 |isbn=9780495501121 |page=3 |quote=Modern liberalism occupies the left-of-center in the traditional political spectrum and is represented by the Democratic Party in the United States. |access-date=April28 28,prill 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201002180929/https://books.google.com/books?id=xGNRRwkZFysC&hl=en |archive-date=October2 2,tetor 2020 |url-status=live}}<cite class="citation book cs1" data-ve-ignore="true" id="CITEREFArnold2009">Arnold, N. Scott (2009). </cite></ref>