Tweet. Here you can find definitions and explanations of terms relating to drug and alcohol addiction, abuse, support and treatment and street names of some drugs. There is a huge range of terms that are used in medical settings, within the drugs field and with varying degrees of accuracy in the media.
Before the era of presidential primary elections, political party conventions were routinely brokered. The Democratic Party required two-thirds of delegates to choose a candidate, starting with the first Democratic National Convention in 1832, and then at every convention from 1844 until 1936.s a result, on June 3, Obama was declared the presumptive nominee that evening, with pledged delegates from Montana and South Dakota. Clinton conceded on June 7, urging her supporters to support Obama in the general election, and so no brokered convention resulted for the Democrats in 2008.
May 3, 1860 - At the Democratic Party's national convention in Charleston, South Carolina, moderate supporters of U.S. senator Stephen A. Douglas are unable to muster the necessary two-thirds majority for his nomination, even after fifty Deep South delegates walk out.The convention adjourns.ontributed by John M. McClure. The United States presidential election of 1860 was perhaps the most pivotal in American history. A year after John Brown 's attempted slave revolt at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, the national debate over.