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Heliogabalus - Powell/McCain run in '96 as Reform
1993-1997 Bill Clinton / Al Gore (Democratic)
def 1992 George Bush / Dan Quayle (Republican) and Ross Perot / Paul Tsongas (Independent)
1997-2005 Colin Powell / John McCain (Reform) [1]
def 1996 Bill Clinton / Al Gore (Democratic) and Dick Cheney / Elizabeth Dole (Republican)
def 2000 Bill Frist / Connie Mack (Republican) and Paul Wellstone / Nancy Pelosi (Democratic)
2005-2007 Herman Cain / Fred Thompson (Republican) [2]
def 2004 John McCain / Joe Lieberman (Reform) and Jon Corzine / Jay Rockefeller (Democratic)
2007-2007 Fred Thompson / vacant (Republican) [3]
2007-2009 Fred Thompson / Lisa Murkowski (Republican)
2009-2017 Condoleezza Rice / Lincoln Chaffee (Reform) [4]
def 2008 Hillary Clinton / Chris Dodd (Democratic) and Fred Thompson / Lisa Murkowski (Republican)
def 2012 Joe Biden / Barack Obama (Democratic) and Richard Burr / Bobby Jindal (Republican)
2017-pres Zephyr Teachout / Steve Cohen (Democratic) [5]
def 2016 Rand Paul / Meg Whitman (Republican) and Jesse Ventura / Jim Webb (Reform)
[1]: As the Republican nomination whittled down two unpopular choices - Former Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and paleoconservative columnist Pat Buchanan - Colin Powell reluctantly accepted the Reform Party nomination after party founders Ross Perot and Paul Tsongas refused to seek it. Powell's campaign was greatly helped by allegations of sexual misconduct on the part of Preseident Clinton that came out in early October.
[2]: Senator Herman Cain was the first president to be elected after the 2002 ratification of the Twenty-Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution, a resurrection of the previously proposed Bayh-Celler Amendment. A key factor in his election was dissatisfaction on the left with the both the Democratic and Reform nominees, leading many liberals to either stay home on election day or vote for minor party candidates like Jello Biafra and L. Neil Smith. In the runoff between Cain and McCain, turnout was unexpectedly low and Cain was able to use his outsider status and economic policies to win a narrow victory.
[3]: After a controversial term involving the invasion of Iraq, President Cain stepped down following substantial allegations of sexual misconduct.
[4]: In 2008, President Thompson managed to fend off a primary challenge by Representative Ron Paul, but knew that he was extremely vulnerable in the general election. With a slew of candidates in the Reform Party - from technocratic moderates like Jon Huntsman and Michael Bloomberg, to Rockefeller Republicans like Mitt Romney, to libertarians like Jesse Ventura and Gary Johnson, to "McCainite" neoconservatives like Joe Lieberman, to liberals like Howard Dean - a popular comprise candidate in the vein of President Powell was sought and found in the form of his former Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, who was also reluctant to run at first, but ultimately decided to, for the good of the party and the country. President Thompson was pushed into third place and a runoff was held between a Rice and Senator Hillary Clinton, wife of the former president. Clinton, an Iraq dove, used Rice's interventionist policies against her, but was unable to win the election.
[5]: 2016 was the year of the outsiders. President Rice's domestic policies were relatively popular, but her foreign policy, which had kept troops in Iraq and intervened in Syria, was the subject of considerable controversy. Both the Democrats and Republicans nominated antiwar candidates - small-r reformist New York Governor Zephyr Teachout and small-l libertarian Kentucky Senator Rand Paul respectively - and even the Reform Party was not free of the antiestablishment attitude: Vice President Chaffee, promising a continuation of Rice's domestic policies and a more peaceful foreign policy lost in an upset to Minnesota Senator Jesse Ventura. In the end, Ventura came off as the craziest of them all and was left in third place, and Teachout won comfortably in the runoff. She becomes the first Democrat to hold the presidency in twenty years, and will hopefully govern better than the last two Democratic Presidents, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, who were also elected as promising outsiders, but then came to be characterized as incompetent moderates and lost reelection.
def 1992 George Bush / Dan Quayle (Republican) and Ross Perot / Paul Tsongas (Independent)
1997-2005 Colin Powell / John McCain (Reform) [1]
def 1996 Bill Clinton / Al Gore (Democratic) and Dick Cheney / Elizabeth Dole (Republican)
def 2000 Bill Frist / Connie Mack (Republican) and Paul Wellstone / Nancy Pelosi (Democratic)
2005-2007 Herman Cain / Fred Thompson (Republican) [2]
def 2004 John McCain / Joe Lieberman (Reform) and Jon Corzine / Jay Rockefeller (Democratic)
2007-2007 Fred Thompson / vacant (Republican) [3]
2007-2009 Fred Thompson / Lisa Murkowski (Republican)
2009-2017 Condoleezza Rice / Lincoln Chaffee (Reform) [4]
def 2008 Hillary Clinton / Chris Dodd (Democratic) and Fred Thompson / Lisa Murkowski (Republican)
def 2012 Joe Biden / Barack Obama (Democratic) and Richard Burr / Bobby Jindal (Republican)
2017-pres Zephyr Teachout / Steve Cohen (Democratic) [5]
def 2016 Rand Paul / Meg Whitman (Republican) and Jesse Ventura / Jim Webb (Reform)
[1]: As the Republican nomination whittled down two unpopular choices - Former Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and paleoconservative columnist Pat Buchanan - Colin Powell reluctantly accepted the Reform Party nomination after party founders Ross Perot and Paul Tsongas refused to seek it. Powell's campaign was greatly helped by allegations of sexual misconduct on the part of Preseident Clinton that came out in early October.
[2]: Senator Herman Cain was the first president to be elected after the 2002 ratification of the Twenty-Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution, a resurrection of the previously proposed Bayh-Celler Amendment. A key factor in his election was dissatisfaction on the left with the both the Democratic and Reform nominees, leading many liberals to either stay home on election day or vote for minor party candidates like Jello Biafra and L. Neil Smith. In the runoff between Cain and McCain, turnout was unexpectedly low and Cain was able to use his outsider status and economic policies to win a narrow victory.
[3]: After a controversial term involving the invasion of Iraq, President Cain stepped down following substantial allegations of sexual misconduct.
[4]: In 2008, President Thompson managed to fend off a primary challenge by Representative Ron Paul, but knew that he was extremely vulnerable in the general election. With a slew of candidates in the Reform Party - from technocratic moderates like Jon Huntsman and Michael Bloomberg, to Rockefeller Republicans like Mitt Romney, to libertarians like Jesse Ventura and Gary Johnson, to "McCainite" neoconservatives like Joe Lieberman, to liberals like Howard Dean - a popular comprise candidate in the vein of President Powell was sought and found in the form of his former Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, who was also reluctant to run at first, but ultimately decided to, for the good of the party and the country. President Thompson was pushed into third place and a runoff was held between a Rice and Senator Hillary Clinton, wife of the former president. Clinton, an Iraq dove, used Rice's interventionist policies against her, but was unable to win the election.
[5]: 2016 was the year of the outsiders. President Rice's domestic policies were relatively popular, but her foreign policy, which had kept troops in Iraq and intervened in Syria, was the subject of considerable controversy. Both the Democrats and Republicans nominated antiwar candidates - small-r reformist New York Governor Zephyr Teachout and small-l libertarian Kentucky Senator Rand Paul respectively - and even the Reform Party was not free of the antiestablishment attitude: Vice President Chaffee, promising a continuation of Rice's domestic policies and a more peaceful foreign policy lost in an upset to Minnesota Senator Jesse Ventura. In the end, Ventura came off as the craziest of them all and was left in third place, and Teachout won comfortably in the runoff. She becomes the first Democrat to hold the presidency in twenty years, and will hopefully govern better than the last two Democratic Presidents, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, who were also elected as promising outsiders, but then came to be characterized as incompetent moderates and lost reelection.
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