brucejoel99
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Political Matrix E: -3.48, S: -3.30
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« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2018, 04:31:10 PM » |
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January 8, 1828: The Jacksonian faction of the Democratic-Republican Party that supported many of the old Jeffersonian principles, which the OTL's Democratic Party evolved from, chooses to name itself after the latter half of the party's name rather than after the former half of the party's name, becoming the Republican Party.
March 20, 1854: Anti-slavery activists, modernizers, ex-Whigs & ex-Free Soilers come together in the Northern states to found a party to become the principal opposition to the dominant Republican Party (OTL's Democratic Party) & the then-briefly popular Know Nothing Party: the Democratic Party.
November 8, 2016: The U.S. presidential election of 2016, the 58th quadrennial American presidential election, is held. In a surprise victory, the Democratic ticket of businessman Donald Trump & Indiana Governor Mike Pence defeats the Republican ticket of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton & U.S. Senator from Virginia Tim Kaine.
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