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  • #31
    North v. South

    1888 has the distinction, like 2000, of being one of those elections that had different popular and electoral college results. The country is split right in the center.

    Another close election. Another GOP victory.

    Benjamin Harrison (Republican) gets 47.82% of the vote to Grover Cleveland's (Democrat) 48.62% of the vote. The spoilers in 1888 were Clinton Fisk (Prohibition) with 2.19% of the vote and Alson Streeter (Union Labor) with 1.29% of the vote.
    I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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    • #32
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      I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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      • #33
        No he doesn't. Ford won Michigan in 1976; it's his home state.
        "My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
        "The subject of onanism is inexhaustable." --Sigmund Freud

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        • #34
          Ok.
          "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
          -Bokonon

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          • #35
            No I don't. This just demonstrates how badly the Dems have screwed up on the social issues. In less than a generation, the south went from strong D to strong R.

            Damn it. Don't use that map. It screws up the thread!
            I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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            • #36
              Dan, I don't think that's necessarily due to the Dems screwing up on social issues. I think it's cuz the South has screwed up on social issues.
              "My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
              "The subject of onanism is inexhaustable." --Sigmund Freud

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              • #37
                I think it's based on such a large population of the south being racist. When the dems started pusing for civil rights for all, the south bailed on them.

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                • #38
                  The most divided era -- North v. South

                  The most divided era of US presidential politics easily is the period 1876 to 1892. It puts the current era to shame, with the largest margin of victory being 3%, and 2 elections where the electoral college was opposite to the popular vote.

                  1876 -- Rutherford Hayes (R) with 47.95% over Samuel Tilden (D) with 50.97% (he had an absolute majority, but lost -- again, the GOP has a track record here... )

                  1880 -- James Garfield (R) with 48.27% over Winfield Hancock (D) with 48.25% (less than 2,000 votes difference -- just imagine if the whole country was looking at hanging chads rather than just Florida ).

                  1884 -- Grover Cleveland (D) with 48.5% over James Blaine (R) with 48.25%

                  1888 -- Discussed above.

                  1892 -- Grover Cleveland (D) with 46.02% over Benjamin Harrison (R) with 43.01%.
                  Last edited by DanS; October 10, 2004, 23:06.
                  I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                  • #39
                    You have the D and R switched for '92.
                    "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
                    -Bokonon

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                    • #40
                      Thanks. Fixed.
                      I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                      • #41
                        The Whig Implosion

                        I guess the Republican party learned its lesson to be unified at all costs by the election of 1836. And it learned to pick the winning side on the slavery/rights issue. On the one hand, it was a close race. Martin Van Buren (D) scored 50.83% to the Whigs scoring 49.09%.

                        Unfortunately, that 49.09% of the vote was divided over 4 Whig candidates, with William Harrison garnering the most at 36.63% of the vote.

                        The interesting thing about 1836 is that it was the last year until 1984 that the Whigs (later Republicans) did well in the South. It was a long, long drought...

                        Martin Van Buren -- Democrat (Red)
                        William Harrison -- Whig (Green)
                        Hugh White -- Whig (Yellow)
                        Daniel Webster -- Whig (Orange)
                        Willie Mangum -- Whig (Gray)
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                        I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                        • #42
                          good thing you specified the whigs . I was going to say there was no republican party.

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                          • #43
                            2008 American Oblast Presidential Election

                            Red states - Comrade Vladimir Putin

                            Note: Elections under Russian military supervision to ensure fairness.
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                            • #44
                              Actually, if you split the socialists (and Socialist Labor and Union Labor) from the communists, then the high water mark for the Communist Party in the US (so far ) was William Foster with 0.26% of the vote in 1932.
                              I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                              • #45
                                And in 2008, with 99.99%.
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