Keep this in mind while you evaluate.
George Washington was not a "Federalist" in his second election. He was adamantly opposed to political parties, and said so in his Farewell Address to the American People. Also, he was not the only candidate in his elections. Other people received Electoral Collage votes in his years.
The Democratic-Republican Party existed only during the two terms of Thmas Jefferson, and then fragmented. The next election marked the first appearance of the Democratic Party. The election of 1824 was a non-party one, since the Democrats had no single candidate but instead had four candidates from different regions of the country running for President.
Trust me, I know these things. I wrote a Supreme Court brief for Anderson v. Celebrezze, 1983, cited with approval by the Court in ruling for Anderson that he had a right to be on the ballots as an independent in 1980.
I hope you have, or at least have read, Sven Petersen's A Statistical History of US Presidential Elections, If not, find it and read it. He has a chapter on close elections pointing out, for instance, that Wendell Wilkie would have defeated FDR in the Electoral College with a change of less than 1% of the popular vote. He gives several other examples including Seymour. (I wrote an article on that, published in Long Island Newsday entitled, "Recarving Mount Rushmore.")
Glad to see I am not alone as a "presidential election nut." No offense meant.
The (More er Less) Honorable Billybob,
cyberCongressman from Western Carolina
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George Washington was not a "Federalist" in his second election. He was adamantly opposed to political parties, and said so in his Farewell Address to the American People. Also, he was not the only candidate in his elections. Other people received Electoral Collage votes in his years.
The Democratic-Republican Party existed only during the two terms of Thmas Jefferson, and then fragmented. The next election marked the first appearance of the Democratic Party. The election of 1824 was a non-party one, since the Democrats had no single candidate but instead had four candidates from different regions of the country running for President.
Trust me, I know these things. I wrote a Supreme Court brief for Anderson v. Celebrezze, 1983, cited with approval by the Court in ruling for Anderson that he had a right to be on the ballots as an independent in 1980.
I hope you have, or at least have read, Sven Petersen's A Statistical History of US Presidential Elections, If not, find it and read it. He has a chapter on close elections pointing out, for instance, that Wendell Wilkie would have defeated FDR in the Electoral College with a change of less than 1% of the popular vote. He gives several other examples including Seymour. (I wrote an article on that, published in Long Island Newsday entitled, "Recarving Mount Rushmore.")
Glad to see I am not alone as a "presidential election nut." No offense meant.
The (More er Less) Honorable Billybob,
cyberCongressman from Western Carolina
Click if you like really good -- or really bad -- videos and DVDs..
Stay well - Yorktown