page_title: Factions in the Democratic Party (United States)
section_title: Moderate wing
hierarchical_section_title: Factions in the Democratic Party (United States) / Centrist factions / Moderate wing
caption_attribution_description: English: Official portrait of Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (D-WA).
context_page_description: The Democratic Party of the United States is composed of various factions, with significant overlap and enough agreement between them to coexist in one party.
context_section_description: During the 1968 United States presidential election, pro-war moderate Hubert Humphrey took the Democratic presidential nomination over the winner of the popular vote, anti-war progressive Eugene McCarthy.
  In 1985, the Democratic Leadership Council, a moderate faction within the party, was created after the landslide victory of Republican Ronald Reagan over Democrat Walter Mondale at the 1984 presidential election.
  During the 1992 United States presidential election, Bill Clinton and Al Gore, both members of the Democratic Leadership Council, each ran as a New Democrat, a Democrat for more limited government. In 1994, Clinton signed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act.
  Most moderate Democrats in the House of Representatives are members of the New Democrat Coalition, although there is considerable overlap in the membership of New Democrats and Blue Dogs, with most Blue Dogs also being New Democrats.
caption: United States Representative Suzan DelBene
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