All Along The Watchtower
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« on: August 26, 2018, 03:20:36 PM » |
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« edited: August 26, 2018, 03:44:46 PM by PR »
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- The Whig Party won only two presidential elections, and both of the Whig Presidents elected died early in their terms.
- Republicans have won 10 of the 18 post-WWII presidential elections.
- Only five of the major party presidential nominees since 1980 did not attend an Ivy League school (Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Walter Mondale, Bob Dole, and John McCain). Three of them were Republicans, two were Democrats - only two of them were ever elected President (though Carter was of course defeated in 1980), and three of the five were nominees in 1980 and 1984. Two of the five (Carter and McCain) were graduates of the US Naval Academy.
- Of the nine men elected Presidents on the Democratic ticket since the end of the Civil War and the four of these nine who weren't white Southerners (or in Harry Truman's case, borderline white Southerners but descended from Confederates), only two of them were white Protestants. Both of these men - Grover Cleveland and Franklin Roosevelt - were Governors of New York, and both had unique aspects of their elections (Cleveland serving two non-consecutive terms, FDR being elected four times).
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