Democrats:

• liberals
• want larger fed gov’t
• implement taxes to help less privileged
• gov’t must look for greater good in welfare
• Make the populace more ‘equal’
• Believe that the values our country holds must evolve over time
• Believe in pro choice and gay marriages, prayers taken out of schools
• lean toward equality under a large federal government
• Democrats are generally more interested in deregulating personal matters and increasing regulation of economic/business matters.
• Democrats also believe in bigger government and more spending to expand government
• support less economic freedom and more social freedom
• Democrats believe the government is best at taking care of people. (more taxes)
• Democrats: pro-choice, more gun control, more government power
• Democrats believe in rights. Democrats believe that you have certain rights as citizens, taking it as far as the right to health care.
• FDR (Franklin D. Roosevelt), John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Obama, Bill Clinton

Republicans:

• conservatives
• They believe that the answers do not lay with the government generally, but rather with the people
• They want less government interference
• tend to believe more strongly in property rights
• less strongly in welfare rights
• Many republicans are religious and tend to hold to the morals characterizing the Founding Fathers
• Disagree with pro choice, gay marriage and prayers taken out of our schools
• Lean towards people looking after themselves and their neighbors under small federal government and strong state governments.
• Republicans are more interested in regulating personal matters and in deregulation of business and economic matters.
• Republicans believe in less spending and a smaller government
• Republicans support less social freedom and more economic freedom
• The root of the Republican Party is limited government, but they generally do not execute this well
• Also, what many Republicans defend as "capitalism" and "free markets" is really government-aided corporatism, which is not economic freedom at all.