However, the party was divided, and without its full support, he lost.
Both the President's party, the majority, and the minority are divided.
In the Senate, the parties are more or less evenly divided.
While the meeting was inconclusive, the party is already divided.
However, the party was permanently divided over the slavery issue.
The party is divided, the experts say, on geographic lines.
The president still appears short of the votes he needs in the Senate, where the two parties are divided 50-50.
The party itself was deeply divided over how and whether it should evolve.
Over the years this party got divided into numerous different factions.
For generations, the state's parties had been divided primarily on economic issues.