Good evening, Democrats!

That's what Democrats believe.

Democrats really dislike Republicans.

They way outweigh Democrats.

The blue line shows how warmly Democrats feel about Democrats, and they like them.

Democrats and Republicans were pulled apart.

Republicans really dislike the Democrats. We're changing.

The GOP accused the Democrats of pork barrel politics.

People generally are comfortable with it, Democrats and Republicans.

The Democrats bought space on commercial television for the campaign.

The Democrats, they say, well, this isn't a big deal.

Americans are about 50 50, whether they're Democrats or Republicans.

Roughly a third of Americans say that they are Democrats.

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

On both sides, republicans, democrats, and they all agreed with us

If you add Democrats, you add Republicans, you've got the American people.

Democrats as well as Republicans parade their religiousness if they want to get elected.

But we Democrats owe America more than a strong argument for what we are against.

Seven presidents before him Republicans and Democrats tried to expand health care to all Americans.

The Democrats haven't decided on their candidates yet, but in any case they're sure to lose.

But you see Democrats versus Republican, not a big difference based on who your neighbors are.

Senate Democrats put forward a plan of their own that would renew a ban on assault weapons.

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

So the Republicans will hold their Republican national convention, and the Democrats will hold their Democratic national convention.

Why should it be that it's perfectly legitimate to support the Republicans or Democrats, this model of economics versus that,

Some states will do it similar to the democrats where the delegates represent the candidates proportion to the votes they have

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

Julián Castro Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. My fellow Democrats, my fellow Americans, my fellow Texans Applause

The second unknown concerns what, exactly, separates the major parties in this contest. The Social Democrats (SPD) and the Christian Democrats (CDU) are both committed to the social market economy, to the essentials of corporatist economic management, to maintaining the entitlements of the welfare state, and to the EU and NATO.

Democrats could count on states like Oregon, Maryland, Michigan and Massachusetts, whereas the Republicans could count on states like Mississippi, Alabama, Kansas and Idaho.

Raising taxes on investment income, you also see about two thirds of Democrats but only one third of Republicans are comfortable with that idea.

That's why Democrats, Republicans, business leaders, and economists have already said that these cuts, known here in Washington as the sequester, are a really bad idea.

Now, both parties wrote this legislation and a year and half ago, Democrats passed the DREAM Act in the House, but Republicans walked away from it.

Democrats really like seeing this transition here, where almost every state becomes bluer, becomes more democratic even states Obama lost, like out west, those states became more blue.

And we will never again have a large group of conservative southern Democrats and liberal northern Republicans making it easy, making there be a lot of overlap for bipartisan cooperation.

And they do not want it fundamentally touched, although the American people are remarkably comfortable, and Democrats roughly equal to Republicans, with some minor tweaks to make the system more stable.

And when I picture how Democrats and Democratic leaning economists picture this economy, most Democratic economists are, you know, they're capitalists, they believe, yes, that's a good system a lot of the time.

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?

If we want to win elections in November and keep our country moving forward, if we want to earn the privilege to lead, it's time for Democrats to stiffen our backbone and stand up for what we believe.

let me tell you, there are just as many jerks and sweethearts and Democrats and Republicans and jocks and queens and every other polarization you can possibly think of within the LGBT community as there are within the human race.

So most Americans are not partisan, and most of the people in the independent camp fall somewhere in between, so even though we have tremendous overlap between the views on these fiscal issues of Democrats and Republicans, we have even more overlap when you add in the independents.

The third unknown is the performance of the Left Party, a new formation positioned to the left of the SPD and built on East Germany s ex communist PDS, with the addition of a significant number of dissident Social Democrats in the West who proclaim themselves to be defenders of the welfare state.

So if you think about this as the problem of a dysfunctional, hyper polarized institution, well, the first step is, do what you can so that fewer hyper partisans get elected in the first place, and when you have closed party primaries, and only the most committed Republicans and Democrats are voting, you're nominating and selecting the most extreme hyper partisans.

I should also note that the discretionary spending, which is about 19 percent of the budget, that is Democratic and Republican issues, so you do have welfare, food stamps, other programs that tend to be popular among Democrats, but you also have the farm bill and all sorts of Department of Interior inducements for oil drilling and other things, which tend to be popular among Republicans.