[2] In his 1920 run for one of Georgia's seats in the United States Senate, Thomas E. Watson was denounced by the Valdosta Times newspaper as a "Democrat in name only.".
[3] When William DeWitt Mitchell was appointed United States Attorney General in 1928 by President Herbert Hoover, the Chicago Tribune described Mitchell as a "Democrat in name only," arguing that "his record of the last few years has been Republican.
[5] The term was used by left-leaning bloggers in 2005 to refer to Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, who they saw as being too conservative on foreign policy and an apologist for the Bush administration.
[6] In 2010, the term was also used in reference to Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson after voting not to confirm Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court.
[7] In October 2021, Richard Luscombe writing in The Guardian applied the term to two Democratic Senators, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, when they resisted components of President Joe Biden's Build Back Better Act.