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Line 42: − ==Presidential dominance==+ − [[Image:Washington painting at the Oval Office.JPG|right]] − In terms of winning presidential elections, the Republican Party has been the most successful political party in U.S. history. Since the American Civil War, Grover Cleveland is the only non-incumbent Democrat who has won the office of President of the United States under "ordinary" circumstances (meaning no third party, no Great Depression, no disputed count in Illinois, no assassination of the previous president, no Watergate). − − From 1860 through 1912, 10 men were elected President of the United States -- Grover Cleveland being the only Democrat. − − Woodrow Wilson, who won in 1912, only won because William Howard Taft (the Republican incumbent) split the party vote with former President Theodore Roosevelt who ran as the Progressive Party candidate. Wilson only garnered 41.6% of the popular vote, compared to a combined 50.6% of Roosevelt and Taft. − − Following Wilson, there were three more Republicans. It took a major economic depression to get another Democrat elected (in 1932). − − John F. Kennedy (the next Democratic non-incumbent to win the White House) won the [[United States presidential election, 1960]] as the result of voter fraud in Chicago (and several other locations), with a mere 0.2% difference in the popular vote. − − It took the aftermath of the Watergate matter to get the next, non-incumbent Democrat elected in 1976 in a very close election in which Democrat Jimmy Carter received 50.1% of the popular vote to Gerald Ford's 48.0%. 5,000 popular votes in the State of Ohio would have made the difference. − − The next non-incumbent Democrat victory occurred in 1992, in which third party candidate H. Ross Perot took away 19% of the popular vote from the Republican candidate, incumbent George H.W. Bush. And even though Bill Clinton was twice elected, he never once had a majority of the vote (43.0% in 1992; 49.2% in 1996). More people (the majority of voters) voted against Clinton for President than ever voted for him. − − Since the birth of the Republican Party, the average Republican margin of victory over their opponents in Presidential elections has been around 12% to the Democrat's margin of victory over their opponents at around 8%. Also since the birth of the Republican Party, Democrats only garnered a majority of the vote a total of 7 times in 38 elections, while Republicans earned a majority 17 times in those same 38 elections. − − In the 20th century, only 7 U.S. Presidents gained a larger margin of victory over their opponents in their second election. Five of those seven were Republicans. It must be noted that this statistic cannot be applied to incumbents who entered office without being elected, as their re-election was actually their first election -- i.e. Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Gerald Ford) − − *Nixon from a 0.7% margin of victory in 1968 to a 23.2% MOV in 1972. − *Reagan from a 9.7% MOV in 1980 to a 18.2% MOV in 1984. − *FDR from a 17.% MOV in 1932 to a 24.3% MOV in 1936. − *Eisenhower from a 10.7% MOV in 1952 to a 15.4% MOV in 1956. − *McKinley from a 4.2% MOV in 1896 to a 6.1% MOV in 1900. − *Clinton from a 5.6% MOV in 1992 to a 8.5% MOV in 1996. − *GWB from a -0.5% MOV in 2000 to a 2.8% MOV in 2004. − − Of the 11 U.S. presidents to be re-elected (i.e. elected a second time) since the Civil War, 7 were Republicans and only 4 Democrats. All seven of those Republicans were re-elected with a higher percentage of the vote , while only 3 of those Democrats received a greater percentage for their re-election bid. And this doesn't even include Franklin Delano Roosevelt's third and fourth terms, where victory margins diminished in his third and forth terms.)
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Screw over the middle class by giving huge tax cuts to large corporations. Also believe in wackjob theories like Creationism.
Screw over the middle class by giving huge tax cuts to large corporations. Also believe in wackjob theories like Creationism.
Bill Clinton>Ronald Reagan.
== Contemporary Party ==
== Contemporary Party ==