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 U.S. presidential election - Open Encyclopedia
Later he was widely predicted to lose the presidential election of 1948, with Governor Thomas Dewey seen as the certain victor.
Voter turnout in Presidential elections has been on the decline in recent years, although it bounced back sharply during the 2004 election from the 1996 and 2000 lows.
After an attempt to seek the Democratic nomination in the 1980 election revealed just the depth to which this scandal and the damage it had done to his reputation had lingered, and the general public's perception of him of being, unlike his brothers, an "ultraliberal", Kennedy has never again sought the presidency.
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 U.S. Presidential Election, 1988 Encyclopedia, Definition, History, Biography @ VARIEDTASTES.COM
Having been badly defeated in the 1984 presidential election, the Democrats were eager to find a new approach to win the presidency.
The election was held on November 8, 1988.
Hart had put in a strong showing in the 1984 presidential election, and had refined his campaign in the intervening years.
www.variedtastes.com /encyclopedia/U.S._presidential_election,_1988   (1442 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 election marked the first time an incumbent president was reelected while his political party increased its numbers in both houses of Congress since Lyndon Johnson in the 1964 election.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/U.S._presidential_election,_2004   (5562 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Progressive party : Election of 1912 (U.S. History) - Encyclopedia
Senator Robert M. La Follette was their choice for the Republican presidential nomination in 1912 until former President Theodore Roosevelt, at odds with his old friend Taft for various personal and political reasons, threw his "hat into the ring" (Feb. 24, 1912).
The Progressive platform called for the direct election of U.S. Senators, the initiative, referendum, and recall, woman suffrage, reduction of the tariff, and many social reforms.
The regular Republicans, however, controlled the national convention at Chicago (June) and renominated Taft, whereupon the Roosevelt supporters organized the new Progressive party (the Bull Moose party) and nominated, also at Chicago (August), Roosevelt for President and Hiram W. Johnson for Vice President.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/Progrsv-election-of-1912.html   (346 words)

  
 Geostat Center: US Presidential Election Maps: 1860-1996
A map of the 2000 presidential election, based on different data, is available at 2000 Presidential Election Resources.
The Data for the Candidate and Constituency Statistics of Elections in the United States were originally collected by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.
The data utilized in the construction of these maps were made available by the Inter-university Consortium for Political Social Research (ICPSR Study # 7757).
fisher.lib.virginia.edu /collections/stats/elections/maps   (102 words)

  
 U.S. Presidency Links - Russell D. Renka
Elections Central- A History of Presidential Elections has contextual detail for interpretation of the 2000 election; it's quite commercial, and popup ads are a problem.
Presidential Inaugurations from The Library of Congress has "a collection of approximately 400 items or 2,000 digital files relating to inaugurations from George Washington's in 1789 to George W. Bush's inauguration of 2001." This is a comprehensive site that will warrant thorough sampling for any student of inaugurals.
Gallup presidential election poll forecasts from 1936 through 1992 are at The Gallup Poll Election 2000- About The Gallup Poll; and its accuracy in comparison to the result is shown for 1936 through 1996 at Gallup Poll Accuracy Record.
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 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)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/U.S. presidential election maps
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.
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.
Neither major party was historically associated with any particular color; network television electoral maps alternated colors to avoid the appearance of bias.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/U.S._presidential_election_maps   (127 words)

  
 Woodrow Wilson - Gurupedia
In the election of 1912, the Democratic Party nominated Wilson as their presidential candidate.
Slovakia, Europe) was called "Wilsonovo mesto" (Wilson City) after U.S. President Wilson for a short period of time after World War I. This was to commemorate President Wilson's support for creating the state of Czechoslovakia.
Receiving the award was bittersweet, however, because he was unable to convince congressional opponents, such as Henry Cabot Lodge, to support the resolution endorsing U.S. entry into the League.
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 Election History Timeline
1912: Twelve states hold the first Presidential preference primaries of the Republican and Democratic parties.
1932: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that a local Democratic Party regulation designed to keep African Americans from voting in primary elections is illegal.
1927: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that a Texas state law preventing African Americans from voting in primary elections is unconstitutional.
teacher.scholastic.com /researchtools/articlearchives/civics/election/timeline.htm   (436 words)

  
 Presidential and Congressional Election Returns
The first popular election of a U.S. senator from Virginia occurred in the general election held on 7 November 1916.
Proceedings of elections for U.S. senators by the General Assembly may be found in the journals of the Virginia House of Delegates and Senate.
The existence of the carefully preserved historical election returns for the offices of president and vice president—versus the lack of other federal election returns—is an indication of the significance attached to this office.
www.lva.lib.va.us /whatwehave/elect/pres_election.htm   (1705 words)

  
 Presidential Elections, 1789–2004
The election of 1804 was the first one in which the electors voted for president and vice president on separate ballots.
Presidential elections in song, verse, commercials, and more.(Surfing the Net) (Social Education)
Identities of competitive states in U.S. presidential elections: electoral college bias or candidate-centered politics?
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0781450.html   (699 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)

  
 Campaign Dynamics and the 2004 Presidential Election
With the notable exception of the 2000 election, voters have habitually returned the incumbent party to office during good economic times and when the sitting president is relatively popular, and have thrown out the incumbent party during bad economic times and when the president is relatively unpopular.
Based on experiences in recent congressional elections, as well as the closeness of the 2000 election, the candidates' organizations, parties, and outside groups are gearing up for major mobilization drives in battleground states this fall.
In retrospect, it is clear that the 2000 election was one in which the campaign itself heavily influenced the outcome.
www.apsanet.org /content_5167.cfm   (1470 words)

  
 1912:  Competing Visions for America
The 1912 presidential election was a significant and substantive discussion about the future of the United States.
The four major presidential nominees offered choices unimagined in today's political world.
They fought in a more contentious, combative, and violent political culture than today's voters could tolerate.
history.osu.edu /projects/1912   (62 words)

  
 U.S. presidential election results --  Encyclopædia Britannica
In elections from 1789 to 1804, each elector voted for two individuals without indicating which was to be president and which vice president.
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.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9344757?tocId=9344757   (1042 words)

  
 ElectionsCentral- A History of Presidential Elections
This part of our site provides the history of each Presidential election.
We also provide a complete review of the 2004 election.
Welcome to our History of Presidential Elections Site.
www.multied.com /elections   (79 words)

  
 Wikinfo November 5
1912 - U.S. presidential election, 1912: Democratic challenger Woodrow Wilson wins a landslide victory over Republican incumbent William Howard Taft.
1968- U.S. presidential election, 1968: In one of the closest elections in US history, Republican challenger Richard M. Nixon defeats Vice President Hubert Humphrey and American Independent Party candidate George C. Wallace.
1940- U.S. presidential election, 1940: Democrat incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Republican challenger Wendell Willkie and becomes the United States' first third-term president.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=November_5   (949 words)

  
 President Elect - 2004
The 2004 election was a race between the incumbent president, Republican George W. Bush, and the Democratic candidate, Senator John Kerry.
Once again Ralph Nader, thought of by some as a spoiler in the 2000 election when he was the Green Party candidate, threw his hat in the ring this time as an independent candidate with the endorsement of the Reform Party.
The following are electors pledged to the top 6 presidential candidates.
www.presidentelect.org /e2004.html   (221 words)

  
 U.S. presidential election, 1816 - Freepedia
The U.S. presidential election of 1816 was a competition between James Monroe and Rufus King.
Only 10 of the 19 states chose electors by popular vote; hence, popular vote figures for this election are generally considered meaningless.
As Secretary of State under James Madison, Monroe was seen by many as pre-ordained to succeed him into the presidency.
en.freepedia.org /index.php?title=U.S._presidential_election,_1816&printable=yes   (162 words)

  
 Asean News Network
Chief Executive Donald Tsang is proposing a compromise plan for the next elections in 2007: to double the size of the committee that selects Hong Kong's leader and to expand the legislature.
Presidential spokesman, Andy Mallerangeng, says the president has told the Indonesian police chief to prevent attacks on religious minorities.
The report notes one U.S. survey done last year in which 42 percent of the children questioned said they had received bullying e-mail.
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 Wikinfo Eugene V. Debs
He was the Socialist Party candidate for President of the United States in 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, and 1920, (the final time from prison).
In the 1920 election, while in jail (see below), he received 913,664 votes, the most ever for a Socialist Party presidential candidate in the US.
The strike was broken and the ARU destroyed.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Eugene_Debs   (494 words)

  
 President Elect
Articles should be related to presidential elections, analysis, the electoral college, relevant Constitution issues, election law, winning and losing presidential / vice presidential candidates, etc. We will not accept articles that are politically biased or are deemed not relevant.
He is the first president to lose the popular vote in his first election and then be re-elected to a second term.
Welcome to President Elect, the homepage for information on the election of U.S. Presidents and the electoral college.
www.presidentelect.org   (203 words)

  
 James Chace, 72; Wrote on Foreign Policy (washingtonpost.com)
His most recent book, published in May, explored the drama and long-range effects of the U.S. presidential election of 1912.
His 1998 biography of Dean Acheson, secretary of state from 1949 to 1953, was considered a landmark for its lucid descriptions of Acheson's personality and the policies that have guided U.S. diplomacy for the past half-century.
He often wrote for newspaper op-ed pages and was a longtime contributor to the New York Review of Books, but he was not a journalist in the ordinary sense.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A21049-2004Oct9.html   (1004 words)

  
 VHS MSS: Fairbanks Family Papers
  He was elected to the legislature in 1836 and was chosen presidential elector in 1844 and 1848 for the Whig party.
He practiced law in St. Johnsbury and, in 1917, volunteered for duty in World War I. He was given a lieutenant’s commission and promoted to rank of major, and eventually to colonel, serving in the Judge Advocate and War Departments.
After the war, he worked for the United States government and he and his family continued to live in Washington D.C. The collection includes many wartime (1917-1918) letters exchanged by Rebecca and Joseph, as well as correspondence between Joseph and Luella, prior to the family’s move from St. Johnsbury to Washington.
www.vermonthistory.org /arccat/findaid/fairbanksfam.htm   (2641 words)

  
 biology - Theodore Roosevelt
McKinley and Roosevelt won the presidential election of 1900, against William Jennings Bryan and Adlai E. Stevenson Sr.
In the 1888 presidential election he campaigned for Benjamin Harrison in the Midwest.
As a result, in 1912, Roosevelt ran for president again.
www.biologydaily.com /biology/Theodore_Roosevelt   (3403 words)

  
 Discount In Their Own Voices: The U.S. Presidential Elections of 1908 and 1912, Various Artists CD CD - FindUsedCDs.com - Compare Music CD Prices.
Amazon Review - In Their Own Voices: The U.S. Presidential Elections of 1908 and 1912, Various Artists CD I first heard the voice of Woodrow Wilson in 1961, when none other than Edith Wilson put a record of "Address to the Farmers" and "Democratic Principles" on her gramophone.
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 Presidential Election 2004
Connect your classroom to the Presidential Election by using this US News Teacher Guide.
AOL Elections 2004 features election coverage including: The Sideshow and Political Insider plus President Match to determine which candidate best fits your views.
Lists major Presidential candidates and their ISSUE positions, State-by-state information on voter registration and upcoming elections, and links to Congressional and state legislative races by state
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U.S. Presidents who died in office, by cause of death
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