Using text mining, this chapter digitally analyses 1,619,838 words of candidates' manifestos from the elections of 1892, 1906, and particularly 1918. It makes numerous interesting findings, in particular that the majority of references to promises and pledges were actually attacks on those offered ...
In an era when highly competitive daily newspapers were relaying every scrap of news about the two major candidates, it seems that rumors about Cleveland's scandalous past would cost him the election. But then his opponent, James G. Blaine, a longtime political figure with a national reputation...
Right on the heels of the 1892 election rematch were two more elections with identical candidates: Republican William McKinley and Democrat William Jennings Bryan. The political divide this time wasn’t ideological, says Perry, but economic. McKinley was a pro-business conservative and a staunch ...
<< 19081916 >> The United States presidential election of 1912 was fought among three major candidates. Incumbent President William Howard Taft was renominated by the Republican Party with the support of the conservative wing of the party. After former President Theodore Roosevelt failed to receive ...
1 For the first time all presidential candidates treated women as important to victory. The presidential campaign of 1912 promised to be a highly competitive race. Deep divisions within both the Democratic and Republican parties portended close contests for each party’s nomination, even for ...
We are now in the month of August, two weeks away from the Democratic National Convention. It is past time for former Vice President Joe Biden to select his running mate, which seems clearly will be a woman of color. And despite promotion of other candidates, the two best, most logical...
Discusses the results of the November, 1998, elections and their relation to education. Role of the issue of education in the election of Gray Davis as governor of California; Education in key state elections; Success of gubernatorial candidates who focused on education; Results of races for gove...
Four years later, the New York representative entered the Democratic primaries, making her the first Black American and the first woman to seek the party’s nomination (Frederick Douglass and Margaret Chase Smith were candidates at the Republican National Conventions in 1888 and 1964, respectively)....
This article examines political regionalism in presidential elections from 1892 to 2000 by analyzing the percentage of the popular vote received by Democratic candidates for president using statistical methods and spatial analysis. The results indicate three long-term and stable political regions in ...
Updegrove attributed the historic nature of the race not just to Harris and Trump's backgrounds but, more importantly, to what is at stake for American democracy and diplomacy. "I've never in my life, again, seen such a marked difference in what the candidates stand for...