Collaborative Presidential Elections

[Intell]

1876 Presidential Election

Benjiman Bristow (R-KY)/Oliver P. Morton (R-IN): 51.7% (258 EV)

Samuel J. Tilden (D-NY)/Thomas A. Hendericks (D-IN): 46.5% (111 EV)

The american people, stood firmly behind the republicans, and their administration. As news of KKK killings of black people, and even Catholics down south, many Irish Catholic Americans, threw their support for the Bristow campaign, and his harsh anti-KKK message, and pro-civil rights message. The republican administration was here to say, as the democrats continued to be viewed as apologists for the south and slavery.

Someone go next for 1880.

[Representative simossad]

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1880 Presidential Election

Benjiman Bristow (R-KY)/Oliver P. Morton (R-IN): 58.9% (356 EV)

William W. Eaton (D-CT)/Matthew C. Butler (D-SC): 40.1% (13 EV)

The result of the presidential election in the year 1880 was a landslide victory for the republicans and thus a painful defeat for the democrats. Due to a rapid economic growth and a more stable social climate under President Bristow, the democratic party did obviously not expect a victory. But the result was worse than anybody had expected. A messy convention, a pale, unknown compromise candidate, a divided party and several gaffes during the campaign led to the collapse of the solid south and thus the collapse of the democratic voter base. Meanwhile, the republican party expanded its voter base and consolidated its position as the traditional governing party.

1884, please.

[Intell]

1888 Presidential Election

George F. Edmunds (R-VT)/ James G. Blaine(R-ME): 268 EV (55.2%)
Beriah Magoffin (State Union-KY)/Thomas F. Bayard (State Union-KY): 121 EV (25.4)
James Weaver (People's-IA)/ James G. Field (People's Party-VA) 12 EV (8.5%)
Francis Kernan (Civil Service-NY)/Micheal C. Kerr (Civil Service Indiana) 0 EV (7.9%)

The previous four years, have proved to be stable and peaceful, with lowering yet still steady economic growth. Advancements in civil rights, have been prolonged, though African-American still have basic civil rights, if not more in the south. Though the south have been marred by terror, by so called redeemers, reducing black turnout in the south.

The election of 1884, proved to be a huge victory for the republican party, with a consensus in the country that the Republican Party, which had kept the nation together was the party which should lead the country. This was true, apart from southerners, especially the older planters aristocracy, farmers, and ethnic catholic communities

The Democratic party by now was dead, split among mainly 2 parties. The State Union party, is a southern based party, which strongly opposes the republican administration, and advancements made in civil rights for African Americans. They support a less centralized government, and attack the republicans for creating a federal bureaucracy, and an end to so called "corrupt" reconstruction.

However, another wing of the party, also split, this is the civil service party. They get support, from more former northern union democrats, who oppose the republican stranglehold of politics
, but more of their support is from white ethnic, particularly catholic public, who oppose the WASP control of politics, and feel disenchanted, and want their interests heard.

The People's Party, is combination of labour or farmer groups, who want the printing of greenbacks, a 8 hour work week, and nationalisation of the railways to name a few. Though their party is divided on race issues, from racial equality to racial separatism, with many former confederate generals in such party. Their goal is to represent both labour and farmer groups, in both the south, north and west, though coloured and white farmer alliances are held seperately, though mainly with similar goals on economic issues.

Come on! Someone do 1888.

[Representative simossad]

Fitzhugh Lee (SU-VA) / Grover Cleveland (SU-NY): 40.8% (234 EV)
George F. Edmunds (R-VT) / John A. Logan (R-IL): 41.5% (131 EV)
George Gray (CS-DE) / George Hearst (CS-CA): 15.2% (36 EV)
James Weaver (PP-IA)/ James G. Field (PP-VA): 2.5% (0 EV)

In 1888, the Republican Party had to face the first defeat in a presidential election since the civil war. The economy under President Edmunds had not been that stable as it was under President Bristow. Low wages and long working hours were the consequences. Several strikes of industrial workes had been forcibly put down. The extremely unpopular and extremely unnecessary war between the United States and the German Empire, which broke out in 1887, was also a crucial factor for the decision of the voters, being a symbol of President Edmund's clumsy and maladroit character.

The State Union nominee Fitzhugh Lee wanted to end the war in Europe through peace negotiations, while President Edmunds promised an quick military victory against Germany and thus an American supremacy on the world stage. Lee promised an economic growth through tough American conditions. Due to the fact that the major opponents of the Civil Service party were not the State Unionists but the Republicans and that its major goal was economic stability, the Civil Service candidate George Gray waived his name on the ballot in New York, Connecticut, Iowa and the states of the solid south, in order to prevent a republican victory in these states.

Although Edmunds won the popular vote, the election in 1888 set an end to the era of clear republican majorities.

Next is 1892.

[Intell]

Is anyone else going to do this?

[GLPman]

1892 Presidential Election

President Fitzhugh Lee (SU-VA) / Vice President Grover Cleveland (SU-NY): 41.1% (235 EVs)
Benjamin Harrison (R-IN) / Henry Dawes (R-MA): 38.9% (162 EVs)
George Gray (CS-DE) / George Hearst (CS-CA): 10.2% (31 EVs)
James Weaver (PP-IA) / James Field (PP-VA): 8.2% (16 EVs)
Other: 1.6% (0 EVs)

President Lee successfully ended the American-German War, which had largely resulted in a stalemate by the first few months of Lee's term. During Lee's term, the economy steadily improved, too. Halfway through his term, however, Lee and his administration faced charges of serious corruption. The Republicans, looking for a comeback, nominated Senator Benjamin Harrison. Harrison attempted to portray Lee as corrupt, as well as weak on foreign policy, citing the President's decision to end the American-German War as "reckless." Meanwhile, the People's Party focused on Frontier and Western states, hoping to capitalize on the farming industry in the West. After a long and bitter convention, the Civil Service Party renominated George Gray, which turned many supporters away from the polls. The Lee-Harrison race was  the most negative presidential race in recent history, with both candidates employing extreme negative attacks on one another. In the end, Lee won a second term, but at the expense of the political capital he previously had enjoyed.