It started in the 1890s. Can their deployment offer us some kind of historical perspective on the current election? Certainly the cutting edge use of new media has been influential in presidential elections of the last 125 years. Understanding this can offer some engaging perspectives on campaign...
Comprehensive chronological exploration of all U.S. presidential elections from 1788 to present, offering insights into the evolution of American democracy and political landscape.
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 ...
Right on the heels of the 1892 election rematch were two more elections with identical candidates: RepublicanWilliam McKinleyand DemocratWilliam Jennings Bryan. The political divide this time wasn’t ideological, says Perry, but economic. McKinley was a pro-business conservative and a staunch defend...
The Best Photos of Obama's Presidency The first Black American to win the presidential nomination from a major party was also the first Black American to become president:Barack Obama. As the Democratic candidate, he defeated white male opponents in the 2008 and 2012 elections, serving two terms...
Vice President Kamala Harris would be the first woman to serve as president of the United States. Donald Trump would be only the second president in history to win another White House term after losing a first attempt at reelection, and will have done so after being the fi...
Wilson defeated both Taft and Roosevelt in the general election, winning a huge majority in the Electoral College, and won 42% of the popular vote while his nearest rival won 27%. Wilson became the only elected President of the Democratic Party between 1892 and 1932. Wilson was the second ...
Republican operatives were sure this plan would work. But, as is wont in American politics, it backfired. In the 1890 midterm elections, the Democrats took the House of Representatives by a margin of 2:1. They swept to power bolstered by a bad economy and by the American West. ...
Election results for every election, from 1789 to the present. Includes all candidates, their parties, number of electoral and popular votes. For the original method of electing the president and the vice president (elections of 1789, 1792, 1796, and 1800),seeArticle II, Section 1, of the ...