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Election of 1860 Stephen Douglas became the first presidential candidate in history to undertake a nationwide speaking tour. The Republicans ran a very vigorous campaign and then better organization won the day. He traveled to the South where he did not expect to win many electoral votes, but he spoke for the maintenance of the Union. www.multied.com /elections/1860.html

Getting the Message Out! Pivotal Events: The Presidential Election of 1860 By Michael F. Holt, Ph.D. The presidential election of 1860 featured a four-way race that vividly illustrated the sectional tensions that were tearing the nation apart, and its outcome would detonate the consummation of that sectional split. Some southern Democrats would support Douglas in the race while a few Buchanan loyalists in the North would back Breckinridge, but essentially the Democrats had one candidate in the North and another in the South. Democrats, meeting in April at Charleston, South Carolina, were the first to attempt to choose a candidate. dig.lib.niu.edu /message/ps-1860.html

Vshadow: Lincoln's Election As election day got closer, and Lincoln's election by a solid North seemed more likely, a near-hysteria gripped much of the South. Waddell's Annals of Augusta County doesn't discuss the election in any great detail, and neither do any of the diaries that we currently have. In the months leading up to the elections, expect lots of barbecues, rallies and general partisanship. valley.vcdh.virginia.edu /outlines/election.html

U.S. presidential election, 1860 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The election was also noteworthy in that it is the only one in which both major parties broke into factions, supporting different candidates (see below for details). Going into the 1860 Republican National Convention in Those in the South nominated a solidly pro-slavery candidate, while those in the North nominated a weak candidate who maintained a middle field when discussing slavery. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/U.S._presidential_election,_1860

Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections Election Results: link directs the browser to detailed national results for the major and minor candidates for U.S. President in the general (November) presidential elections from 1789 through 2000. Election Information: menu directs the browser to election information including: historical details (such as election dates, electoral votes by state, the electoral college, etc.), Presidential Election Law from the U.S. Constitution and United States Code, Articles, and a description of the election process. Also, additional menus provide hyperlinks to state results pages for the Presidential Elections from 1892 through 2000. www.uselectionatlas.org

U.S. presidential election, 1860 See also: President of the United States U.S. presidential election 1860 Origins of the American Civil War Other elections : 1848 1852 1856 1860 1864 1868 1872 At the 1860 Republican convention in Chicago William H. Seward of New York Salmon P. Chase of Ohio and Simon Cameron of Pennsylvania were the leading contenders for the presidential nomination. www.freeglossary.com /US_presidential_election,_1860

U.S. presidential election, 1972 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This election had the lowest voter turnout for a presidential election since 1948, with only 55 percent of the electorate voting. The establishment-favorite for the nomination was 1968 Vice Presidential candidate, the moderate Ed Muskie, but he failed to live up to expectations in key primaries and the press caught him at an emotional moment when he appeared to be crying, further hurting his support. Hubert Humphrey, U.S. senator from Minnesota, former vice president, and 1968 presidential nominee www.wikipedia.com /wiki/U.S._presidential_election,_1972   (1299 words)

Democratic Party (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Northern Democrats nominated Stephen A. Douglas and the Southern Democrats nominated John Breckenridge in the U.S. presidential election, 1860). In the presidential election of 1896, widely regarded as a political realignment, Democrats favoring Free Silver defeated their conservative counterparts and succeeded in nominating William Jennings Bryan for the presidency (as did the agrarian Populist Party). During the 2000 Presidential election, the Democrats chose Vice President Al Gore to be the Party's candidate for the presidency. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Democratic_Party   (7219 words)

U.S. presidential election, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Although the overall result of the election was not challenged by the Kerry campaign, third-party Presidential candidates David Cobb and Michael Badnarik obtained a recount in Ohio. Election watchers and political analysts forecast a number of contested election results in a manner similar to the Florida voting recount of 2000. The 2004 election was the first to be affected by the campaign finance reforms mandated by the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (also known as the McCain-Feingold Bill for its sponsors in the United States Senate). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/U.S._presidential_election,_2004   (5564 words)

U.S. presidential election, 1852 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The U.S. presidential election of 1852 was in many ways a replay of the election of 1844. The Democrats, anticipating a loss in the general election but not wanting to re-nominate 1848 nominee Lewis Cass, instead nominated the virtually unknown Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire. Pierce and running mate William King would go on to win what was at the time one of the nation's largest electoral victories, trouncing Scott and his vice presidential nominee, William Graham of North Carolina, 254 electoral votes to 42. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/U.S._presidential_election,_1852   (545 words)

U.S. presidential election maps - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography Maps depicting results of the 2000 election used blue to represent states supporting Democrat Al Gore and red for those supporting Republican George W. Bush. U.S. presidential election maps and U.S. presidential elections. The exceptional bitterness of that election ingrained the red state vs. blue state divide in public consciousness, and since then red has been closely associated with Republicans and blue with Democrats. www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/U.S._presidential_election_maps   (150 words)

ElectionsCentral- A History of Presidential Elections Welcome to our History of Presidential Elections Site. We also provide a complete review of the 2004 election. This part of our site provides the history of each Presidential election. www.multied.com /elections   (150 words)

Geostat Center: Collection: US and Virginia Election Data & Maps Elections included are President, Senator, Representative, Governor, Lt. Governor, Attorney General, and General Assembly (Senate and House). Users of this system will be able to create customized tables of precinct level election returns. This collection of data is built upon precinct level data tapes obtained from the Virginia Board of Elections. www.lib.virginia.edu /gic/elections/index.html   (150 words)

America's Civil War: Presidential Election, 1860 Did not hold a popular vote for presidential electors. www.sewanee.edu /faculty/Willis/Civil_War/tables/1860Election.html   (150 words)

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Politics (War Between the States) It is true that a map showing the locations of free and slave states (and territories) in the pre-Civil War U.S. bears a rough resemblance to a map showing the electoral vote results for the 2004 U.S. presidential election. An election map with finer gradation (i.e., displaying results on a county-by-county basis rather than a state-by-state one, and providing color shading to reflect the closeness of the vote in each area) produces a better picture of how strongly both candidates in the 2004 election ran even in states which they lost: According to exit polls and analysis of county-by-county election returns, the sharpest geographic distinction between the two candidates did not primarily correspond to region but to size of community: Senator John Kerry had a substantial www.snopes.com /politics/ballot/civilwar.asp   (456 words)

Worldwide Elections Guide: Services & Information: SSHL Presidential Elections and the Electoral College (The Proceedings of the Electoral Commission of 1877): This Library of Congress project presents the pages from records of Congressional debates on presidential elections, contested presidential elections, electoral colleges from 1789 to 1873. Presidential Elections and Electoral College: created by the Library of Congress, presents the pages from records of Congressional debates and Congressional action on presidential elections, contested information and electoral votes from 1789 to 1873. Election Statistics: The Clerk of the U.S. House Representatives lists elections results from 1920 to most recent, the official vote counts for presidential electors, U.S. senators, and U.S. Representatives. sshl.ucsd.edu /election/pres.html   (1280 words)

Presidential Elections and the Electoral College: U.S. Congressional Documents On March 19, 1860, William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic Presidential candidate in 1896, was born. Students and researchers on the subject of the presidential elections and the electoral college may find it useful to consult the Law Library of Congress Research Guide to Election Resources, a resource guide to both electronic and printed materials on the subject. A wide variety of materials on presidential elections and the electoral college may be found in A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation. memory.loc.gov /ammem/amlaw/lwec.html   (454 words)

SPECIAL REPORT: The U.S. Presidential Election --  Encyclopædia Britannica The 2000 presidential election exposed several deficiencies in the conduct of American elections: the possibility that a candidate could win more popular votes than his opponent and still lose the electoral college tally—Bush... Election Reform Debate in the U.S. Amid calls for a radical overhaul of the U.S. electoral system, George W. Bush was inaugurated as president of the United States on Jan. 20, 2001. Election campaigns, like wars, are won through a combination of strategy, logistics, and the application of power. www.britannica.com /eb/article-9113929   (715 words)

WHAT ARE THEY ALL DOING, ANYWAY? an historical analysis of the Electoral College The first-ever U.S. Presidential Election was now one for the history books, but the victors- George Washington and John Adams, respectively- now had to be (in the practice of the day) formally called upon at their homes and officially informed of their election. The presidential election of 1876- the infamous "Disputed Election"- was to provide a severe test for the Electoral College system, certainly as much a test of it as the Jefferson-Burr deadlock of 1800 had been. Hamilton- still pulling strings behind the scenes in what would turn out to be the last Presidential Election in his lifetime- tried to have the Federalist Electors withhold their second vote from Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, the older brother of the man Hamilton had "sandbagged" four years before. www.thegreenpapers.com /Hx/ElectoralCollege.html   (5983 words)

Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections Election Results: link directs the browser to detailed national results for the major and minor candidates for U.S. President in the general (November) presidential elections from 1789 through 2000. Election Information: menu directs the browser to election information including: historical details (such as election dates, electoral votes by state, the electoral college, etc.), Presidential Election Law from the U.S. Constitution and United States Code, Articles, and a description of the election process. The Election Results link also directs the browser to detailed national and state-level results for the major candidates for U.S. President during the presidential primaries (at present, information is only available for the year 2000 and 2004 election cycles) www.uselectionatlas.org   (483 words)

Civil War, in U.S. history: The Election of 1860 The crucial point was reached in the presidential election of 1860, in which the Republican candidate, Abraham U.S. presidential elections in the nineteenth century: why culture and the economy both mattered. The election of 1896 and the restructuring of Civil War memory. www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0857366.html   (320 words)

President Elect - Articles - An analysis of the U.S. Presidential Election of 2000 Democratic candidates in presidential elections over the past half-century have won an average of 46.1% of the popular vote. Within days of her own election, Hillary Clinton said "I believe strongly that in a democracy, we should respect the will of the people and to me, that means it's time to do away with the Electoral College and move to the popular election of our president." Bi-partisan proposals are already going forward in Congress. It is the pervasive fear throughout the thin states that if the president were chosen by direct election, whatever influence they retain through their disproportionate strength in the Electoral College would disappear, swamped beneath the massive populations of the mega-states. www.presidentelect.org /art_sheppard_e2000an.html   (2321 words)

Results of Presidential Elections - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net Starting with the 1804 election, the method of electing the Vice President, as spelled out in the 12th Amendment, led to separate ballots cast for the President and Vice President, with the winner in each race gaining the seat. In 1854, Congress established Election Day as the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November; 1856 was the first time all presidential elections happened on the same day by law. Prior to the 1804 election, the method of electing the Vice President, as spelled out in the Constitution, was for the first runner-up to be the Vice President. www.usconstitution.net /elections.html   (278 words)

USIS -- Issues of Democracy, September 1996 --Financing Presidential Election Campaigns The feasibility of public financing in the last five presidential campaigns depended on the taxpayers' willingness to earmark a small portion of their tax liabilities -- $1 for individuals and $2 for married persons filing jointly -- for the Presidential Election Campaign Fund by using the federal income tax checkoff on their tax forms. In the 1992 general election campaign, the fifth in which public funds were provided, incumbent Republican George Bush had about $90 million spent by his campaign or on his behalf, including a public grant of $55.2 million. At the federal level, the results of those reform efforts -- and of subsequent attempts to ease the burdens of laws imposed on candidates and committees-- are embodied in the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (FECA), the Revenue Act of 1971, and the FECA Amendments of 1974, 1976 and 1979. usinfo.state.gov /journals/itdhr/0996/ijde/alex.htm   (2235 words)

U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2004 The US Presidential Election 2004- from Denmark US Presidential Election for the Rest of the World LookSmart - Presidential Candidates for the 2004 US Election www.betterworldlinks.org /book109.htm   (749 words)

MSN Encarta - Search Results - Election Presidential Election : election of 1992: Presidential Debate Election, procedure that allows members of an organization or community to choose representatives who will hold positions of authority within it. Electoral Reform, effort to eliminate undemocratic or corrupt practices in the conduct of public elections. encarta.msn.com /Election.html   (749 words)

Republican Party (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The ensuing election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 ended 60 years of dominance by Southern Democrats and thus ushered in a new era of Republican dominance based in the industrial north. United States Libertarian Party to get its members to join the Republican Party and this faction to increase the voice of libertarianism within the party. Though states' rights was a cause of both Northern and Southern states before the War, control of the federal government led the Republican Party down a national line. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Republican_Party   (749 words)

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