The continued in-migration only serves to advantage the Democratic Party because these populations come primarily from a much more Democratic region: the Northeast".
Brody, who was instrumental in the recent prosecution and conviction in Senegal of the former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre, said that The Gambia was a small country with a small army in a more democratic region of Africa, so the cost of intervention there was relatively low.
Victor Fischer, an author and former professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage, said the area is generally more Democratic and Republicans in the region are closer to the ideological center.
Mr. Simmons, in his second term, said he would always face a competitive race in his eastern Connecticut district, which has more Democrats than Republicans and more independents than either, and in a region becoming more Democratic.
The region, while more democratic than before, remains ripe with possibilities for conflict, mischief and feuding, both tribal and political.
Your May 22 news article implies that most of Russia's regional governors are authoritarian, when in fact some regions are more democratic than the federal government in Moscow.
There were more Democratic than Republican governors in the region, and the Democrats held a majority of state legislative chambers.
We can note that during this decade the Internet access started to become more democratic in Brazil, when all regions of the country became covered by the main backbone and also due to the development of the commercial Internet.
Historically, the collar counties were more solidly Republican, but in recent elections the region has leaned more Democratic.
The implicit idea is that a democratic region will be more stable, and also friendlier to the West.
But for all the contradictions in its policies — and there are many — Qatar is advancing a decisive shift in Arab politics that many in the West have yet to embrace: a Middle East dominated by mainstream Islamist parties brought to power in a region that is more democratic, more conservative and more tumultuous.
