1928 Presidential Election

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Al Smith is the sane choice.

Indeed. This election will definitely be fun to see.

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On another note, this is the first election where I haven't voted Union in 80 years.

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On another note, this is the first election where I haven't voted Union in 80 years.

When was the last one? 1864?

Actually literally 80 years ago, in 1848. I voted for the Redeemer ticket as a protest vote because I didn't like Charles Francis Adams.

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A Smith victory--the first ever for the Bull-Meese--might mean that the conservative wing takes control from the progressives. I wonder if Cathcon's prediction here will become true at all:

As it stands now, my only thoughts are that, if the Bull Moose party survives, they might be renamed the "Liberals" at some point and, in this timeline's analogue to the 1970's (decline of New Deal politics, collapse of liberalism) they become rebranded as a "neo-liberal" party of some sort, trying to forge a Western and North-Eastern coalition. Just a thought.

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I wonder if Ford and Wheeler should just concede already

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One last bump for this

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Barring George Clinton's unanimous reelection in 1808, I believe this is the highest margin of victory in an election (40 points) that we've seen so far, although JQA had a slightly bigger portion of the vote in 1828 at 65%.