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Good for him, David T (may he Rest in Peace) has a post on Taft's Civil Rights record.

Being pro-Civil Rights until it comes to using the federal government to enforce said civil rights is a position in and of-itself. Barry Goldwater opposed giving the federal government a broad role in desegregating the South, Bob Dole did not. I don't think the fact that one of those men was on...

What makes you think there won't be a Goldwater type around? The man himself has a bright career ahead of him in booming conservative Arizona, and the burgeoning breed of lean mean West/Southwestern/Mountain West GOPers birthed from the buzzsaw of SoCal Capitalism, the John Birch Society, and...

Dewey isn't going to lock in a more liberal minded Republican Party any more then two terms of Dwight Eisenhower locked his brand of 'modern' Republicanism. Dewey has to work with the Conservative Coalition to pass his agenda in Congress, the Democratic half of that coalition is conservative...

France, twice the pride... it's going to be a long fall from grace. Speaking of falls, wikibox of the 1918 U.S. Senate elections, I think the technical term for this is a shellacking.

New Orleans as a Shanghai in miniature, with the racial divide mixed in, now that's a pressure cooker if there ever was one. It is going to be an end of an era with New York's total domination of Presidential tickets and rosters coming to a close, though the Indian Summer of Al Smith eventual...

Yes, Dick Cheney was in a position to become President, but the Republican Party was not in a position to get a super majority because the task of getting a super majority with modern polarization is an incredibly difficult I'm not sure you're getting the point. You can't just snap your fingers...

Modern polarization and partisanship have made getting a landslide election a virtually impossible task in the current era The question you asked requires extraordinary departures from the reality of American politics in the early 2000s and as such requires an extraordinary explanation to...

Yes, so we're *only* talking about a LBJ, FDR in 36, Nixon 72 landslide and a greater popular vote margin then Ronald Reagan, right. The worst terror attack in American history occurring on the incumbent President's watch occurring six weeks before a Presidential election, after the partisan...

A 13 point over performance from 2004 is 63% of the vote. The last President to get more then 63% of the vote was James Madison in *1808,* we are talking about a greater popular vote landslide then Lyndon Johnson and Franklin Roosevelt and Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan Not happening.

Fundamentally the GAW has shattered both the legitimacy and the functionality of central government in the CSA and it will take a very long time for that to be pieced back together especially when American troops are busy inflicting their own form of punitive justice for one of the continent's...

On Foreign Policy? War in Cuba, War in Laos, and a stand-off over Berlin. On Domestic Policy and Civil Rights? Nothing of substances with some tepid mealy mouthed statements of support at best.

The excerpt reveals that New York's Bourbon Democrats were in the tank for their man, and that McClellan was boasting and receiving letters boasting about his ability to raise an army. Given that virtually the entirety of Little Mac's service in the Civil War can be established as a testament to...

Samuel Tilden was a wealthy, conservative railroad lawyer, a hard money man who earned his reformist credentials fighting against Tammany Hall by trying institute a property requirement for New York's elections. It is not the resume of a man who's inclined to break-bread with labor or someone to...

Jorge Wilcken Romney Pratt, Bandito, Businessman, and former Governor of Chihuahua was indicted by American authorities as the head of a sprawling drug and arms smuggling ring which operated along the US-Mexican border...