Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party. He was the first president from the Republican Party. Winning entirely on the strength of his support in the North and West, no ballots were cast for him in 10 of the 15 Southern slave states, and he won only two of 996 counties in all the Southern states. [122] Lincoln received 1,866,452 votes, Douglas 1,376,957 votes, Breckinridge 849,781 votes, and Bell 588,789 votes. Turnout was 82.2 percent, with Lincoln winning the free Northern states, as well as California and Oregon.
Hitler never had more than 37 percent of the popular vote in the honest elections that occurred before he became Chancellor. And the opposition among the 63 percent against him was generally quite strong. Hitler therefore would have never seen the light of day had the German Republic been truly democratic. Unfortunately, its otherwise sound constitution contained a few fatal flaws. The German leaders also had a weak devotion to democracy, and some were actively plotting to overthrow it.
In an attempt to gain more support, Von Papen held an election, only to be bested by the Nazis, who won by a landslide of 230 seats and as result, became the largest party of the Reichstag. Because of the Nazis success at the Reichstag, Hitler demanded position of Chancellor, only to be refused by Hindenburg, who disliked Hitler and asked Von papen to remain in office. The new reichstag weren't advocates of Von Papen, with only 32 supporting him and 513 against him. He was dependant on the presidential decree and support of Hindenburg for yet another time. Von papen arranged another election hoping to win more support from the reichstag, however, he fell short once more to the Nazis, obtaining an even fewer amount of seats.
Lewinskky Scandal: The Story of the Comeback Kid America’s 42nd president and his administration are responsible for many milestones and achievements. To start, the governor from Arkansas was, and still is, the third-youngest man to be elected President of the United States at age 46 and was the first democrat elected for a second term since Franklin D. Roosevelt. These small feats are nothing though when analyzing the true legacy of the Clinton Administration. Perhaps the biggest achievement was that between the presidential elections of 1992 and 2000 William “Bill” Jefferson Clinton presided over the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in the history of the United States of America. And, although his economic policies are the most well known political achievements of his administration he was also able to enact significant pieces of legislature.
English 12 September 10, 2013 Reagan in the 80’s – Did he help or hurt America? In 1980, troubled by an unstable economy, a hostage crisis overseas, and the end of prior administrations that were not trusted, America elected Ronald Reagan by a landslide margin of victory over Jimmy Carter. At sixty-nine years old, he was the oldest President to be elected. He was born in a small town in Illinois and served two terms as California governor starting in 1966. Reagan's track record proved to be very strong and included welfare cuts, decreasing the number of state employees, and halting radical student protesters.
Served in Virginia House of Burgesses (1774? 16yrs) IV. Presidential Term: (1789-1797) V. Issues of the Election: 1789 – One of the biggest difficulties was persuading Washington to run for president because he felt his calling was to a quiet life. Once he was convinced, the issue was that only 10 states participated in the election and George Washington received at least one of the two votes from each representative. John Adams, runner up, became Washington’s vice president.
In 1876, 1888 and 2000, the candidate who won the popular vote lost the presidency because of this system. There is a winner takes all system, in all states except for Maine and Nebraska, where the candidate with the most votes in one states wins all the electoral college votes for that state. This often hugely distorts the results, for example Reagan won 50.7% of the popular vote but won 90.9% of the electoral college votes. It is also grossly unfair to third parties, Ross Perot for example won 18.9% of the popular vote but gained none of the electoral college votes. It can also be considered unfair in the way that it allows for the votes of some people to be worth more than others depending on geographical location.
Rossi led Gregoire by only 260 votes in Washington State’s 2004 Governor’s Race. This was the outcome of the first voting results in Washington state’s Governor’s Race, and as with any race this close; calling for a recount was Rossi’s only option, as it was also mandatory since the spread was less than 2,000 votes, and called for a machine recount, since only a hand recount is called if the spread is less than 150. Three counts of nearly 3 million ballots, four lawsuits, and seven weeks later the state of Washington discovered that what was thought to be a simple recount, turned into months of unfairness and disharmony. After the first machine recount Gregoire was only 42 counts behind, which by law, called for yet another count, but this
Short Essay: Why We Have 2 Main Parties The reason there are only two main parties in the U.S. is that the U.S. uses a winner-take-all election system. Every district or state has an election run this way. Thus, if you were to split either party they would become weak and almost always lose. George Washington warned against political parties, but nonetheless the U.S. basically has always had two parties, though early on, a couple of times the parties did have splits and eventually the party names evolved to Republican and Democrat where it has held steady for over 100 years. I really do not like either party; most politicians have lost touch with reality and basically become fronts for the companies and individuals that give them the most
William Hoppe 2/18/08 Mr. Lesure Introduction to Political Science: “American Democracy at Risk” The United States has always stood as the perfectly sculpted democratic society. However, with no regard for the country’s history, modern-America has entered a downward spiral, leaving democracy behind. Through a diminishing voting public, a media, controlled by a few conglomerates, influencing the nation, and a less-educated public, the country is heading towards an end where no future is promised. In today’s society, only half of voting-age Americans exercises their right to vote in the Presidential election. In the last forty-five years voter turnout has fallen and continues to lower.