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Benjamin Harrison ❄️

“The Human Iceberg”

(Nobody voted for him in my poll so… somebody’s gotta show him some love)

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Trump 2024? Presidential comebacks have mixed success

There are already reviews that Trump is mulling a run in 2024. Caitlin O'Hara/Getty Photos

American creator F. Scott Fitzgerald as soon as wrote that “there are not any second acts in American lives.”

But it’s already assumed Donald Trump will go on to a subsequent act in a single kind or one other.

Will he begin his personal media firm? Function a GOP kingmaker?

There are even rumblings that he’ll resolve to run once more for president in 2024. Having served just one time period, he’s constitutionally eligible to strive for an additional.

If he does resolve to run once more – and if he wins – he’ll be in uncommon firm.

Just one American president has misplaced reelection after which gained again his workplace: Grover Cleveland. Within the American elections course that I educate, college students be taught particulars in regards to the long-term political impacts of those comeback efforts, most of that are workouts in futility.

‘Gone to the White Home, ha ha ha’

The late 19th-century political setting resembled at the moment’s in some ways: tight polarized elections, sturdy regional patterns in nationwide voting, comparatively excessive voter turnout and adverse campaigning.

Cleveland, a Democrat, had been governor of New York for lower than two years when his social gathering nominated him for president in 1884. As governor, he had gained a repute for combating Tammany Corridor corruption in New York Metropolis.

Through the 1884 marketing campaign, during which Cleveland ran towards Republican James Blaine, a scandal erupted when a New York lady named Maria Halpin accused Cleveland of raping and impregnating her. She was finally institutionalized and compelled to surrender her baby for adoption. Cleveland disputed a number of the particulars of the story, and his supporters countered jeers of “Ma, ma, the place’s my pa?” with chants of “Gone to the White Home, ha ha ha.”

Grover Cleveland weathered assaults that he had fathered a baby out of wedlock. Common Photos Group by way of Getty Photos

Cleveland ended up profitable the nationwide in style vote by a slim margin – 48.85% to 48.28% – and gained 219 electoral votes to Blaine’s 182. Cleveland’s base of help was within the South and in his dwelling state of New York, whereas Blaine did properly in the remainder of the North. Voter turnout was excessive, estimated at 77.5% of the voting-age inhabitants.

Throughout Cleveland’s time period, tariffs grew to become a divisive partisan situation in American politics. Republicans favored increased tariffs to guard Northern manufacturing pursuits, whereas Democrats like Cleveland usually needed decrease tariffs to assist the South’s agricultural export-oriented pursuits and to decrease costs for customers.

Cleveland’s comeback

When Cleveland ran for reelection in 1888, he confronted off towards Republican Benjamin Harrison. Cleveland once more gained the nationwide in style vote by a good margin, however misplaced two states – Indiana and New York – that he had gained in 1884. It was sufficient to flip the Electoral School and permit Harrison to be elected president.

Grover Cleveland ran on tariff reform in 1888 – and misplaced. Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG by way of Getty Photos

After shedding the election, Cleveland returned to work as an lawyer in New York. Below President Harrison, Congress permitted the McKinley Tariff and the Sherman Silver Buy Act, every of which had been strongly opposed by Cleveland.

In 1891, after two years of avoiding the general public highlight, Cleveland once more grew to become politically energetic and began to vocally oppose the financial insurance policies of Harrison. Cleveland attracted some nationwide consideration that 12 months with a public letter indicating his persevering with help for the gold normal.

As Cleveland met with social gathering leaders and made some public speeches in 1892, nationwide Democratic help for his presidential nomination started to develop. By the point the Democratic Nationwide Conference met in June that 12 months, help for Cleveland had turn out to be overwhelming, and he secured the nomination.

With Populist Occasion candidate James B. Weaver on the poll pulling votes from each main social gathering presidential candidates, Cleveland gained the nationwide in style vote for the third straight election, this time besting Harrison by a 46% to 43% margin and profitable the Electoral School.

Strive, strive once more

Whereas Cleveland has, to this point, been the one U.S. president to lose reelection after which come again and win, different presidents have tried and failed.

In 1840, Democratic President Martin Van Buren misplaced reelection. He tried to be renominated by his social gathering in 1844, however Democrats as an alternative selected James Polk. By 1848, Van Buren joined with a gaggle of disaffected Democrats and anti-slavery activists to turn out to be the nominee of the Free Soil Occasion, which opposed the extension of authorized slavery to U.S. territories. Whereas Van Buren gained 10% of the nationwide in style vote and completed second in New York, Massachusetts and Vermont, he gained no Electoral School votes.

Van Buren is the one president aside from Cleveland to be renominated by his social gathering, lose reelection after which seem once more on ballots as a presidential candidate.

Three different presidents additionally made tried comebacks to regain the presidency after leaving workplace.

In 1852, President Millard Fillmore, who had ascended to the presidency after the loss of life of Zachary Taylor, made a halfhearted try to win the Whig Occasion nomination for a full time period. When he failed, he got here again 4 years later because the presidential candidate of the American Occasion, higher referred to as the “Know Nothings,” a political motion to limit Catholic immigration to the US. Fillmore gained over 21% of the nationwide in style vote, the second-best efficiency by a third-party presidential candidate in American historical past and gained Maryland’s electoral votes.

One of the best efficiency by a third-party presidential candidate in American historical past was additionally by a former president, Theodore Roosevelt. In 1912, he ran for the Republican presidential nomination towards his extra conservative protege, President William Howard Taft. When Roosevelt didn’t get his social gathering’s nomination that 12 months, he ran because the Progressive Occasion candidate.

After being shot at a marketing campaign rally throughout the month earlier than the election and surviving, Roosevelt bought 27% of the nationwide in style vote and 88 electoral votes, ending far forward of Taft in each vote tallies – however properly behind the winner, Woodrow Wilson.

The final American president to lose reelection and try to run for president once more was Herbert Hoover, who was unsuccessful in each 1936 and 1940 at persuading different Republicans to let him lead the social gathering once more after he misplaced in a landslide in 1932.

Richard Nixon made a distinct sort of political comeback.

He misplaced the presidential election of 1960 whereas serving as Dwight D. Eisenhower’s vp after which went on to lose the 1962 California gubernatorial election. After the 2 losses, Nixon famously instructed the press, “You gained’t have Nixon to kick round anymore.” However the press did get one other whack at Nixon when he ran for president a second time – and gained – in 1968.

After shedding the 1962 California gubernatorial race, Nixon complained of his therapy by the press and hinted that he would retreat from public life. Bettmann by way of Getty Photos

The final try at a political comeback by a defeated president was a really transient effort by Gerald Ford, who had misplaced reelection in 1976, to barter the opportunity of being Ronald Reagan’s working mate throughout the 1980 Republican Nationwide Conference. The plan fell by, and Ford returned to non-public life.

As soon as out of workplace, most ex-presidents keep out of the highlight and keep away from criticizing their successor. Whether or not or not President Trump makes an attempt a political comeback in 2024, it’s doubtless that he gained’t keep mum over the following 4 years.

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The Electoral College

Every four years the American people go to the polls to elect out next President of the United States.

These votes are painstakingly transcribed in only the most intricate of calligraphy, the likes of which caused the calligraphers to go blind long ago, requiring them to work without sight. And then a bunch of guys in a room somewhere wad up all those votes and throw them in the furnace, get good and roaring drunk and play darts to decide who the next president will be.

Theoretically the purpose of this endeavor is to ensure that the voting process is not co-opted by states that have significantly greater populations than others. California, the most populous state, has more people in it than a significant number of the least populous states, which is an admirable goal, but it does lead to some problems when the candidate who got the least votes is selected as president by the college.

According to an internet search my own encyclopedic knowledge of American history, four presidents have become president thanks to the electoral college in defiance of the popular vote: Rutherford B. Hayes (President #19), Benjamin Harrison (#23), George W. Bush (#43) and Donald Trump (soon-to-be #45).

John Quincy Adams (#6) won neither the electoral college nor the popular vote. Both of those went to his opponent, Andrew Jackson. As neither Adams nor Jackson accrued the required 131 electoral votes (84 and 99 in Jackson’s favor), the House of Representatives selected Adams to be the president.

Interestingly, it wasn’t until Donald Trump became president that people began to criticize the electoral college. Or at least, began to criticize it enough that it has become a popular subject of discussion.

I gather Mr Trump is quite an unpopular guy, though I don’t know the specifics, as I have made no attempt to learn anything about his policies, so as to not spoil the purity of my name based selection system, which would have Trump win on account of having a better name than his most prominent opponent, Hillary Clinton. You can’t Trump the Trump. See? It’s an amazing name.

I have no fear that Trump’s policies will affect me in any way, for obviously even if he were to try to pass a bill that would affect a demographic among whose number I count myself in any negative way, he would be obligated to add an addendum that states “That sexy beast who calls himself The Real Eagal is exempt from any negative consequences of this bill and also he should have been president instead of me, Donald Trump and also everyone should worship him for he is amazing.”

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Bits and Pieces   -  Presidential Trivia   8/16/20

A few weeks ago, I had a trivia question pop up in my inbox:  Which presidential election had the highest turnout percentage? The choices were: 1876, 1980, 2008, 2016.

Don’t make the mistake of forgetting changes in voting laws over the centuries. The 2016 had a high number of votes cast (138,847,000+/-), though lower than the percentage of eligible voters performing their duty in 2012 (58% to 2016 at 52%). The winner is 1876, when 82% of the registered voters came out for the choices of Rutherford B. Hayes vs Samuel Tilden.

In 1876 the Civil War Amendment # 15 granting voting rights to all men over 21 regardless of “race, color or previous servitude” had been law for 5 years. Many former Confederate States used the provision in the amendment to institute poll taxes, literacy tests and other “qualifications” for voting. Yet that year 82% of eligible voters cast a ballot in the presidential election.

Here are some other pieces of questions about presidents or their elections that might be interesting?

·         What does the S in Harry S Truman stand for?  Take your pick…Harry’s parents compromised by only giving him a middle initial “S” to represent both his grandfathers: Anderson Shipp Truman and Solomon Young.

·         Did every president live in the White House? Actually John Adams (#2) was the first occupant (supposedly the paint was still wet when he and Abigail moved in, in 1800). Washington began the project and oversaw its construction, beginning in 1792, but never lived there.

·         Was this home always called the White House? The first president to call this residence the White House was Theodore Roosevelt, #26. Originally it was known as the Executive Mansion or Presidents’ House.  

·         Who was the first president born in the United States? Though under the U.S. Constitution a president must be a natural born citizen, the first seven presidents were born in the 13 colonies before the American Revolution. So, technically, the first U.S. born president was Martin Van Buren born in New York in 1782 –born after winning our independence from Great Britain, but before the U.S. Constitution in 1789.

·         How many presidents died in office? There were eight who died as president; four of them were assassinated. Assassinated: Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy; Other: William Henry Harrison, Taylor, Harding and FDR.

·         Did any president ever serve two terms non-consecutively? Yes, Grover Cleveland. Benjamin Harrison served a term between Cleveland’s two terms.

·         Which state has produced the most U.S. presidents? Eight presidents have come from Virginia, but Ohio has given the country seven presidents.

Other little known (and maybe even not cared about) pieces of presidential trivia:

·         The first president to have a Christmas tree in the White House was Franklin Pierce (1853-1857).

·         The first president to campaign by telephone was William McKinley (1901)

·         James Madison was the shortest (5’4”) and lightest (100 lbs.) president.

·         When Millard Fillmore (1850-1853) entered the White House (following the death of Zachary Taylor), the home had no Bible. He and Abigail Fillmore installed the first library. (Now THIS fact I found amazing considering that Thomas Jefferson had the most awesome/largest library at the time of his presidency, and sold the majority of his books (6,000) to the Library of Congress when it lost its collection in the fire during the British burning of DC in the War of 1812.)

·         Thomas Jefferson wrote his own epitaph for his tombstone: “Author of the Declaration of Independence, Author of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom and Father of the University of Virginia.” He never mentioned his presidency.

·         As Monroe was the lightest, William Taft may have been the heaviest (332 lbs.). The first time he used the White House bathtub, he got stuck. A larger one was ordered!

·         The term “O.K./okay” is credited to Martin Van Buren. He was raised in Kinderhook, New York and gained the nickname “Old Kinderhook.” As he later was called OK Van Buren, this tag transitioned into our vocabulary.

·         The first president born in a hospital was Jimmy Carter.

·         Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) is the president who approved “The Star-Spangled Banner” as our national anthem.

·         The words “one nation under God” were added to the Pledge of Allegiance by President Dwight Eisenhower (1953-1961).

·         In 1872, Ulysses S. Grant was the first president to run for office against a woman candidate. Virginia Woodhull was the candidate under the Equal Rights Party.

·         Andrew Jackson was the only president known to be a prisoner of war. He was also the only president to serve in both the American Revolution and the War of 1812.

·         Dwight Eisenhower was the only president to serve in WWI and WWII.

·         The president with the most children was John Tyler – with 15!

·         Thomas Jefferson was an inventor and is credited with: coat hanger, hideaway bed and dumbwaiter.

·         The longest living president was Jimmy Carter at 94 and 172 days.

Presidential trivia is an interesting way to look at history. Mundane details can bog a person down. My students loved it when I introduced irrelevant pieces of historical trivia. It seemed to lighten the mood and spark a little interest. Must say that the favorite each year was how “hooker” came into our vocabulary. (General Joseph Hooker of the Union, hired women to follow his troops and keep them “motivated.” These women became known as Hooker’s Girls. You can figure out the rest.)

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Election night has been a big media event since electric lights first announced the winner in 1892

Journalists, like these Related Press staffers, have at all times labored laborious to report election outcomes shortly – and precisely. AP Photograph

As election night time approaches, People will flip to their televisions, computer systems and smartphones to look at outcomes are available for native, state and nationwide races. Over time, information protection of winners and losers has change into must-watch programming – even whether it is, as longtime NBC election-coverage producer Reuven Frank put it in 1991, “a TV present about including.”

The primary aim of journalists on election night time was – and is – to be the primary to accurately declare the winner. It’s an angle pushed by the general public’s curiosity in fast outcomes, supercharged by journalistic competitors.

I’ve been finding out journalism historical past for greater than 20 years and earlier than that labored in newsrooms on election night time for nearly as lengthy. Via expertise and analysis, I do know the push to announce a winner didn’t begin with the web – or tv or radio, for that matter.

The general public, particularly the sector deeply eager about politics, has at all times wished to know the outcomes as quickly as attainable. One other customary of election night time, at the least up to now century, is that the journalists announce a winner within the presidential race properly earlier than all of the votes are counted – and weeks earlier than the outcomes are formally licensed.

Election night time 2020 could also be very completely different.

In 1920, a crowd gathered in downtown Chicago to look at election returns projected on the massive display within the rear of this {photograph}. Chicago Solar-Instances/Chicago Every day Information assortment/Chicago Historical past Museum/Getty Photographs

The spectacle of election night time

Beginning within the late 1800s and persevering with properly into the following century, New York newspapers used an enormous array of floodlights, magic lantern shows, stereopticon projections, and different dazzling visible pyrotechnics to announce outcomes on election night time.

In 1892, The New York Herald and the New York World newspapers, in addition to the Chicago Herald, used quite a lot of lighting strategies to suggest state and nationwide ends in incumbent President Benjamin Harrison’s race towards former President Grover Cleveland. The New York Herald used a searchlight at Madison Sq. Backyard and pointed it towards Brooklyn to announce Cleveland’s victory. Whereas these results had been designed to announce the winner earlier than the following version of the paper, the visible shows additionally drew crowds, turning election night time into an leisure occasion.

In 1904, when The New York Instances moved its places of work to a brand new location dubbed “Instances Sq.,” the paper ramped up the election night time spectacles and in addition added a ball drop on New 12 months’s Eve. In 1928, simply in time for Herbert Hoover’s election, the Instances unveiled the “zipper,” a lighted digital signal with 4-foot-high scrolling letters that circled the constructing with the newest info.

Media historian Dale Cressman thought-about the quarter-million-dollar signal a mixture of “newspaper promotion, competitors, and the will to be first.” For greater than 30 years, the Instances zipper displayed election night time outcomes and different main information tales.

Broadcasting the election outcomes

Eight years earlier than the Instances zipper, newspapers in Detroit and Pittsburgh, in addition to in different places, took to the radio airwaves to announce Warren Harding’s election as president. By 1932, the radio networks relayed Franklin D. Roosevelt’s victory over incumbent Herbert Hoover to the greater than 60% of American households that had radios.

After World Conflict II, tv took over the position of getting preliminary election outcomes out to the general public as shortly as attainable.

President Harry Truman is seen on a big TV display displaying voting returns in Instances Sq. on election night time 1948. PhotoQuest/Getty Photographs

All through the published period, the tv networks thought-about the political conventions and election nights as their most seen and essential broadcasts each 4 years. They unveiled new tools and visible imagery, graduating from writing numbers on a blackboard to lighted indicators, and when colour tv lastly caught on, utilizing completely different colours to suggest Republicans or Democrats. The networks additionally added computer systems and the newest prediction strategies with the willpower to announce the winner first, for scores and bragging rights.

Because the networks had been counting on prediction, and never the precise counted votes to find out the winner, the second that got here to represent the top of presidential election was the concession speech. That was very true in such shut elections because the one in 1948, when Harry Truman beat Thomas Dewey. In 1960 the telling second got here the day after Election Day, when Richard Nixon gave a concession speech, congratulating John F. Kennedy on his victory.

The networks used the speech to verify their prediction, and the dropping candidate used the speech to represent the peaceable acceptance of the general public’s will, regardless that that act had no official position in figuring out the winner.

Speedy outcomes

All through the remainder of the 20th century, vote counting sped up whereas pollsters and different analysts got here up with extra intricate methods to foretell the vote depend.

This emphasis on velocity with out penalties culminated in 1980 when NBC Information used exit polling to announce at 8:15 p.m. Jap time that Ronald Reagan had defeated incumbent Jimmy Carter. NBC was roundly criticized for asserting a winner earlier than all of the nation’s polls had closed. Critics believed the community’s emphasis on being first might have damage voter turnout on the West Coast.

In 1990, the highest broadcast and cable TV shops teamed up with The Related Press to create the Voter Information Service. The thought was that the collective effort would share the prices – and the outcomes – of vote evaluation on election night time. The evaluation mixed exit polling, precise vote totals, voter turnout and different knowledge to foretell who would win. It additionally provided the likelihood that a variety of media shops could be in sync, when it comes to timing and the outcomes themselves, as they introduced predicted winners.

On election night time 1996, Vice President Al Gore and President Invoice Clinton watch the outcomes are available on tv. David Hume Kennerly/Getty Photographs

The confusion of 2000

The presidential race of 2000 grew to become the election night time when predictions and traditions failed the networks and the American public. The tv networks had conditioned People to imagine projections had been as dependable as vote totals, and {that a} concession speech signaled the top of the race. As well as, as a result of the networks all relied on the identical knowledge, they couldn’t catch issues with the predictions.

Utilizing Voter Information Service knowledge, the networks first introduced Vice President Al Gore had received Florida, however then modified to report Texas Gov. George W. Bush had received Florida, and due to this fact the entire election. Gore even made a personal concession name to Bush, earlier than calling again to rescind his concession.

In actuality, the Florida vote was too near name. However in many individuals’s minds, Bush had been declared the winner on tv. It took a Supreme Court docket choice and a public Gore concession speech to cement Bush’s victory.

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A deal with vote counting

In 2002, the Voter Information Service was disbanded, changed the next yr by the Nationwide Election Pool, which serves the identical goal. For 2020, The Related Press and Fox Information have left that consortium and can each be utilizing the wire service’s personal service, AP VoteCast.

The outcomes might take hours, if not days and even weeks, to compile. That may make election night time 2020 not like another in historical past. It’s my hope that the journalists and information organizations will resist their historical past of predicting a winner shortly, and as an alternative deal with witnessing – and explaining – the method, nonetheless lengthy it might take.

Mike Conway doesn’t work for, seek the advice of, personal shares in or obtain funding from any firm or group that may profit from this text, and has disclosed no related affiliations past their educational appointment.

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