Truman won by a 49% to 45% margin and in his surprising victory decided to create a change when he became president. He modified the prior “New Deal” with his version of the “Fair Deal.” He created more public housing, increased minimum wage, encouraged and helped spread education, protection against natural civil rights, and created national health insurance. Sadly, all this really did was unintentionally create tension that eventually started the Cold War. During this time though, Chinese Communists had managed to take control of the mainland and the Soviet Union managed to create their own nuclear bombs.…
November 5 – The Presidential Nominee of the Republican Party Richard Milhous Nixon is elected president over Vice-President Hubert Humphrey.…
A political realignment of 1936 saw the few African-Americans, who were not disenfranchise in their right to vote, abandon their allegiance to the republican party and realign to vote democrat. This realignment would result in a voting turnout trend that still exists today. African-Americans overwhelmingly support politicians who orient to the Democratic Party. The racial group represents a key minority of the electorate that most candidates seeking political office wish to gain. With this knowledge in mind, if one were to run for president as a Democrat, the candidate would most likely win in the state of Michigan versus the state of West Virginia.…
Jefferson's victory in the presidential election is notable because this was the first transfer of national authority from political group to another that was accomplished by peaceful and strictly constitutional means. He began his presidency with a plea for reconciliation and described his election as a recovery of the original intentions of the American…
The presidential election of 1801 was against Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. It was an extremely close and hostile election. In fact, the first results of it was a tie. To break the tie, the ballot went up to the House of Representatives. Each state had one vote. This is where things got really heated! A young lad named Alexander Hamilton thought the election had terrible candidates. However, he saw Jefferson as the less of two evils. With this in mind, he went around persuading others to vote for Jefferson. Jefferson won on the 36th attempt to break the tie. Once his first term was over, he became a candidate for the election of 1804. He went against Charles Pinckney. Because Jefferson did so well during his first term, the…
Hubert Humphrey was the thirty eighth Vice President of the United States. He was elected along side of Lyndon B. Johnson as the Democratic party in the year 1964. Humphrey also ran for the title of U.S. president in 1968, but was unsuccessful…
The research shows that Harry S. Truman was the best president because he was very confident with his decisions. For example, he did not appeal to congress to drop two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Which ultimately caused the surrender of Japan. After all he had seen and done, he ran for a second term and was elected by the…
The next presidential election was a close fifty-fifty call with Thomas Dewey. After Truman’s reelection, he announces a domestic policy “Fair Deal” applying Roosevelt’s “New Deal”. The program ideals…
Their election was closer in the popular than in the electoral columns; in the end they pulled off a victory. Lincoln received fifty-five percent of the popular, and ninety-one percent of the electoral votes. Johnson became vice-president. During the time period between…
In the election of 1912, candidates Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft and Eugene Debs competed for the spot as President of the United States. Wilson represented the Democratic Party, Roosevelt, the Progressive, Taft, the Republican and Debs, the Socialist. Although there were four candidates in the running, most would agree that the real competition was between Wilson and Roosevelt. A few of the many issues during the time of this election concerned trusts, women’s suffrage and tariffs. Wilson thought that trusts, or big monopolistic businesses, should be eliminated all together, while Roosevelt wanted to place limits on them. Roosevelt openly supported women’s suffrage and Wilson wanted individual states to decide voting rights…
President Truman was unlike most presidents in the sense that he was not elected to be president, but came into office after Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a stroke on April 12th, 1945. He told reporters that it was as if “The moon, the stars, and all the planets had all fallen on me.” But his concern was…
Democratic nominee Al Gore and Republican nominee George W. Bush were tied head-to-head, with Al Gore winning the popular vote by a small margin of “…one-half of 1 percent” (Foner 1079). The electoral college result, however, depended solely on who won the state of Florida, where confusion and claims of inconsistent counting of ballots produced an outcome that was uncertain. After tallying had been completed, it appeared as if George Bush won the state by a difference of a couple of hundred votes, but shortly after, Democrats “…demanded a hand recount of the Florida ballots” (Foner 1079). The Florida Supreme Court allowed the recount, but the decision to determine the outcome ultimately fell upon the Supreme Court of the United States. Less than a month later, by a “…5-4 vote” (Foner 1079), the Supreme Court ordered the termination of the recount to instead allow the governor of Florida to determine who won the state. The governor, however, just happened to be Jeb Bush, brother of George W. Bush, who hastily confirmed that “…the Republican candidate had carried the state and had therefore won the presidency” (Foner 1079). The outcome of the Bush v. Gore case shocked thousands, for a mere few years earlier, the Supreme Court “…had reasserted the powers of the states within the…
Anderson. Ronald Reagan went to win the election with 50% of the popular vote and 91% if the Electoral College. In a later election of 1992, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Ross Perot ran against each other for the presidency. Ross Perot being a third party candidate kind of took 18.9% of the popular vote away from both of the candidates as shown in the graph in Document B. Which not a terrible thing, the issue with third party candidates or independents is they were running with the democratic party but loses the Primary Election and becomes a independant they will split the party.…
The presidential election of 1848 was defined by the slavery issues. The democrats nominated Lewis Cass who believed in popular soverignity. The Whigs nominated Zachary Taylor, who was a slave owner. Taylor’s campaign focused on pro-slavery for the Southerners, but also focused on more Northern ideologies like the Wilmot…
There had been big differences between Gore and Bush on key issues. For example, Gore proposed a $500 billion tax cut, while Bush proposed $1.3 trillion. Bush was leaning for more defenses, and Gore was going for education. On the other hand, the two candidates had common opinions on issues. Both had supported stronger enforcement on the current gun…