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| | <b>Realigningb> election - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Of all the <b>realigningb> elections, this one musters the most agreement from political scientists and historians; it is the archetypal <b>realigningb> election. | | | This election marked the final downfall of the Whigs (who had sputtered throughout the 1850s) and the ascendence of the United States Republican Party. | | | The election of 1876 passes the numbers test much better, and resulted in far more drastic changes in United States politics: Reconstruction came to a sudden halt, African Americans in the South would soon be completely disenfranchised, and politicians began to focus on new issues (such as tariffs and civil service reform). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realigning_election
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| | United States presidential election, 1860 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The U.S. presidential election of 1860 is widely considered to be a <b>realigningb> election. | | | The election was noteworthy for the exaggerated sectionalism of the vote, with Lincoln not even on the ballot in nine Southern states- and winning only 2 of 996 counties in the entire South[1]. | | | Luebke, Frederick C. Ethnic Voters and the Election of Lincoln. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_election,_1860
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| | Hexapedia - U.S. presidential election, 1824 |
| | Summary The election of 1824 is often considered a <b>realigningb> election. | | | The election was thrown to the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. | | | Also, this was the first election where the president did not win the popular vote. |
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http://www.hexafind.com/encyclopedia/U.S._presidential_election,_1824
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| | "Populism and Political Realignment" |
| | <b>Realigningb> elections mark a rejection of the political status quo; they end one party system and usher in another. | | | <b>Realigningb> elections are characterized by definitive conflicting issue stances by the major political parties. | | | <b>Realigningb> elections, since they represent a desire to permanently alter the status quo, feature an abnormally high interest by the electorate in all phases of the political process and record voter turnouts occur on such election days. |
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http://www.austincc.edu/lpatrick/his1302/populism.html
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| | Wikinfo U.S. presidential election, 1800 |
| | The election of 1800 is often considered a <b>realigningb> election. | | | As a result of the problems arising from the election, and to a lessert extent from the election of 1796, the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified in 1804, providing that electors make a distinct choice between their selections for President and Vice President. | | | The election went to the United States House of Representatives, which over the course of the next six days cast a total of 35 ballots, with Thomas Jefferson receiving the votes of 8 state delegations each time - one short of the necessary majority of nine. |
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http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.php?title=U.S._presidential_election,_1800
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| | AEI - Short Publications |
| | The last <b>realigningb> election was the election of 1936, in the midst of the worst Depression ever experienced in the US, where Roosevelt won 61 percent of the vote and the Democrats swept the field in a huge landslide. | | | Before the 2004 election, the pundits were asserting confidently that a presidential election is like a decision to extend the contract of an employee. | | | Nevertheless, at the time of the election, it appeared that the battleground states--the states which a candidate had to win in order to gain a majority of electoral votes under the US electoral vote system (which I will discuss in a moment)--were still losing jobs. |
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http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.social,pubID.22345/pub_detail.asp
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| | Sabato's Crystal Ball - Conventional Wisdom Watch |
| | Republican William McKinley changed all that in 1896 with his "<b>realigningb> election" victory that kept the GOP as the country's governing party from 1897 to 1933, with the exception only of Woodrow Wilson's presidency (1913-1921) that was produced by the Bull Moose third-party candidacy of former President Theodore Roosevelt. | | | The nation actually had four close elections in a row, starting in 1876 with the famously disputed election between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel J. Tilden (decided by an Electoral College vote of 185 to 184). | | | The last time the United States had two extremely close presidential elections in a row was in the 1880s. |
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http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/article.php?id=LJS2004030302
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| | SMU: From George to George - Essay by Hal Williams |
| | A "deviating" election results in a temporary defeat to the party in power without altering the basic division of partisan loyalties, and a "<b>realigningb>" election, in some ways the most important of all, changes the fundamental party commitments of a large portion of the electorate, who will vote differently in the future. | | | A runoff election in a 1998 statewide Texas primary brought three percent of the electorate to the polls. | | | In national elections, sixteen states, mostly in the North, consistently voted Republican; fourteen states, mostly in the South, consistently voted Democratic. |
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http://www.smu.edu/smunews/george/williams-essay.asp
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| | ussccrit.doc |
| | In the immediate aftermath of a <b>realigningb> election, the Court is still composed of members of the old regime, while the lawmaking majority has changed significantly. | | | Critical elections signify either a partisan realignment, in which the electorate decisively chooses the party currently not in the majority, or a partisan conversion where the public returns the majority party to power. | | | In a general interrupted time series model that simply operationalized each critical election as a shock, we found only a few shifts in the level and rate of invalidationsin the late 19th and early 20th centuriesthat could be explained as a function of the periods between those critical elections. |
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http://www.nku.edu/~baranowskim/academia/ussccrit.doc
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| | 1896: Election Results |
| | Historians have seen 1896 as a "<b>realigningb> election," though it confirmed results that had already been apparent in the 1894 congressional races: by 1897, Republicans had won sweeping control of the White House and both houses of Congress. | | | The 1896 election showed a sharp differentiation between voters in the economic "metropole"--the Northeast and industrial areas--and those in the "periphery"--the South and West. | | | At least six fatal or serious shooting affrays marked the State election in Georgia, and in Kentucky, West Virginia, Missouri and elsewhere, murders have occured at political meetings.... |
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http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/electionresults.html
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| | Presidential Election Highlights |
| | <b>Realigningb> election—downfall of Whigs and ascendance of Republicans; Lincoln’s election led to beginning of Civil War; considered greatest US president by many for keeping union together; assassinated shortly after end of war in April 1865; Andrew Johnson assumed presidency. | | | <b>Realigningb> election; created New Deal coalition including labor, Jews, racial minorities, southerners, Catholics; implemented New Deal programs to fight Depression, greatly expanding size and reach of federal govt; led US during most of WWII; first media age president, skillfully using radio to communicate w/people; inspired confidence during depths of depression. | | | <b>Realigningb> election in 1800; election was decided by House after tie in EC vote; power shifted from Federalists to Democratic-Republicans; some feared revolution would result but transition was peaceful, setting precedent for future transitions; pardoned all those convicted under Alien and Sedition Acts. |
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http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/SCHOOLS/WJHS/depts/socialst/miller/APGovernment/presidencies.htm
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| | Election 2004: The Death of Liberalism? |
| | However, it is quite conceivable that what fostered the eventual realignment is the Democratic Party& failure to recognize the significance of the mid-90’s Congressional shift, and to properly address it in subsequent elections. | | | Certainly, this was the case in 1994 when the Republicans won back the Congress, and expanded this lead in 1996. | | | Certainly, one of the key post mortems of Election 2004 is the failure of the exit polling, and the possibility of some bizarre cabal being involved. |
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http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article3920.html
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| | Political Science 101 TPMCafe |
| | As I was told time and again by my first advisor in grad school, "You have to first define your terms." And by the definition of "<b>realigningb> election" that the political scientists who study and obsess over these things use, 2004 was not by any stretch of the imagination a <b>realigningb> election. | | | By corollary, if there was, in fact, a "Realignment" in 2004, one might expect Republicans to gain additional seats in the House and Senate in 2006. | | | Actually, the realignment in this case began before 1932, in 1930; in the House of Representatives, Democrats went from 106 seats down to virtual parity before wiping the floor with the Republicans in 1932. |
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http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/8/11/141312/555
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| | Johns Hopkins Gazette: March 20, 1995 |
| | GOP Strategist Finds Seeds of Party's Dominance in History By Mike Field For William Kristol, the election of '94 may well prove to be the long-predicted <b>realigningb> election marking the end of 60 years of Democratic party dominance at the national level. | | | Before election day, Democrats controlled two-thirds of the state legislative chambers; now Republicans control a majority of those bodies." The past election not only put record numbers of new Republicans in office, it also demonstrated two characteristics typical of realignment elections, he said. | | | The Republican Party's ability to turn this election into a long-term national realignment in their favor will depend on if they can govern successfully and lay the groundwork for further advances." Judging from historical patterns, that pos-sibility seems likely. |
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http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/janmar95/mar2095/20kristl.html
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| | ABC News: Poll: Issues Favor Dems in 2006 Elections |
| | The template is the Republicans' <b>realigningb> election of 1994, when they gained 52 House seats and the control they still enjoy today. | | | And if the election were today, registered voters would favor the Democrat in their congressional district by 52 percent to 37 percent. | | | 6, 2005 &; A year out from the 2006 midterm elections, the Democrats hold an extraordinary lead in voter preferences — but far less of an advantage in the practical elements it can take to turn an out-party's hopes into votes: leadership, anti-incumbency and a unified theme. |
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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/PollVault/story?id=1283170
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| | PBS: Think Tank: Transcript for "1994 Elections: Is It the End of an Era?" |
| | Nasty, aggressive and very expensive election campaigns were therule on both sides in 1994, but American voters turned out toregister their displeasure chiefly with the Democrats. | | | Shortly before the election, a Washington Post/ABC -- E.J.,you work for The Washington Post -- an ABC -- a Washington Post/ABCpoll showed 68 percent of the public regarded social issues as themost important problem, while only 13 percent said it was economicissues. | | | HESS: Well, obviously any election that produces a RepublicanHouse for the first time in 40 years has to be at least a tidal wave.I think I may be a good deal more skeptical than some of mycolleagues about realignment. |
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http://www.pbs.org/thinktank/transcript133.html
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| | Gilded Age: 1896: The Cross of Gold |
| | In retrospect, historians have called 1894 a <b>realigningb> election, one in which voters ended the Gilded Age's close political competition with a resounding decision in favor of the Republican Party. | | | The depression that began in 1894 turned the election two years later into a pivotal event in which American voters decided their future course. | | | McKinley and the Republicans swept the election of 1896, running particularly well in the industrial Northeast, mid-Atlantic and Midwest. |
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http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/narr8.html
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| | Fusion Multiple Party Nomination in the United States |
| | State law bans on fusion date from the 1890s, and were part of an extensive recasting of American electoral politics associated with that period, which included the “Jim Crow&; system in the South, and accelerated after the <b>realigningb> election of 1896 in which the Republican Party took control of state legislatures throughout the country. | | | The first bans were enacted shortly after the election of 1892, which was marked by the national appearance of the Populist “People’s Party” and extensive fusion between democrats and Populists in the campaign eventually won by Democrat Grover Cleveland. | | | Seven ban multiple party nominations on the general election ballot, even if fusion occurs during the primary or convention nominating process, by specifically requiring the candidate to choose one party before the general election (Arizona, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Montana, and North Dakota), and two other states have a similar statute (Kentucky and Washington). |
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| | elec94.txt |
| | From this angle, 1994 is not a <b>realigningb> election but rather an extension and confirmation of realignment--with the Republican power in the South and declining Democratic strength elsewhere not unlike what James Sundquist called the "aftershocks" of the New Deal realignment. | | | I believe that the long-term meaning of the 1994 election is closely tied to the issue of voter participation. | | | Realignments don't depend on "critical elections." The endless question: "Was this a critical election?" is responsible for the theoretically barren assertion that realignment is a dead concept. |
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http://www.tntech.edu/history/elec94.txt
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| | MyDD :: The Slightly Changing Coalitions |
| | The 2004 election was not a <b>realigningb> election. | | | The 2004 National Annenberg Election Survey began on October 7, 2003 and concluded on November 16, 2004 and involved interviews with 81,422 adults. | | | Then a study by Ana Maria Arumi of NBC News, aggregating the 51 individual 2004 exit polls conducted in every state for the same sponsors concluded that the Bush share was 40 percent. |
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http://www.mydd.com/story/2004/12/22/154657/52
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| | Did 2004 Transform U.S. Politics? |
| | Some conservatives and Republicans are calling 2004 a transformational or <b>realigningb> election, one that indicates a seismic shift in U.S. politics that will continue to be felt in future elections. | | | Although Republicans made small gains in the House of Representatives, it was the four seats they picked up in the Senate—taking them from a 51-49 majority before the election to a 55-45 majority afterward—that underscored the overall Republican victory on November 2. | | | The upset defeat of Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), the first Senate leader to lose reelection in 52 years, was the exclamation point on the Republicans’ electoral triumph. |
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| | "Social Security and Political Realignments" by Noel Sheppard |
| | To understand this nexus, it is important to recognize the <b>realigningb> magnitude of the 1932 elections as the Democratic Party and our nation were thoroughly transformed by Franklin Delano Roosevelts New Deal. | | | [A <b>realigningb> election is one] in which geographic bases of power for each of the two parties [are] significantly altered, resulting in a new political power structure and status quo. | | | Some of the more notable of such elections occurred in 1800 (transfer of power from the Federalists to the Democratic-Republicans), 1824 (split of the Democratic-Republicans), 1860 (creation of the Republican Party), 1932 (creation of the New Deal Democrats), and, most recently, Ronald Reagans revival of the Republican Party in 1980. |
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| | Mike, I Disagree TPMCafe |
| | Actually, I think the stronger case can be made that 1994 was the "<b>realigningb>" election, because tensions that had long been building up along the tectonic plates of American politics suddenly got released, sending a surge of votes into the Republican camp. | | | Compared to that election, though, no election since 1994 has been of much consequence in terms of partisan alignment; 1996 and 1998 cleaned out the most egregious nut cases from 1994, but since then, on the congressional level, hardly anything has changed much. | | | The nation rejects gay marriage overwhelmingly in election after election except in a few blue areas, and Democrats can't seem to understand that it is the public's right to do so until legislation or court decisions make it otherwise. |
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http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/8/11/134750/575
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| | 5 Party functions |
| | <b>Realigningb> elections have occurred at regular intervals through the course of American history and they have been essential for the development of the American political order. | | | The last <b>realigningb> election should have occurred in 1968. | | | Yet there is considerable evidence to support the idea that the 1968 election was a dealigning election. |
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http://www.ipfw.edu/pols/syllabi/bartky/Y103ReviewIIF2004.htm
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| | Missouri Republicans Increase Hold on State Government |
| | "This is the <b>realigningb> election I have been working for since I was a teenager in the 70s," Kinder said. | | | However, with the election of Republican Matt Blunt as Missouri's next governor last week, even that seems to be have come to end. | | | However, Hardy said the Democrats' greatest failing has been their inability to connect with rural voters who are often conservative on social issues like gun control, gay marriage and abortion. |
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| | Weekly Standard, The: A <b>realigningb> election |
| | President Bush had all along insisted there could be no progress toward peace so long as Arafat remained in power, and that any progress would come as a result of new, democratic elections in Palestine. | | | First, there were the elections in Afghanistan last October. | | | Elections stolen by a corrupt Ukrainian government with the connivance of Russia's ruler, Vladimir Putin, were reversed by a massive display of "people power" in the streets of Kiev and other Ukrainian cities. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0RMQ/is_21_10/ai_n11836387
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| | Am Party Systems |
| | Bill Clinton, who wins reelection in 1996 despite having the Republicans capture both houses of Congress in the 1994 off-year elections. | | | Burnham argues that one should view elections in light of two questions: | | | In a year of strong passions and violence including riots at the Democratic national convention, the presidential election race was a whisper thin victory for Republican |
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http://homepages.udayton.edu/~aherndaw/partydev3
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| | Political pundit Charlie Cook visits DePauw |
| | "Second term mid-term elections tend to be devastating for the party holding the White House. | | | However, he said, "The distinction of this campaign is that it will be the first presidential election since 1928 the first one in 80 years with no sitting president or sitting vice president running. And there's no heir apparent on either side. So it's going to be wide open and fun to watch." | | | Cook, who been called "the Picasso of election analysis" by the Wall Street Journal, was a guest of The Gertrude and G.D. Crain Jr. |
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