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in the election of 1872 the Republican Party split, the Liberal Republican Party was formed and nomined Horace Greeley and B. Gratz Brown, the Democratic Party endorsed the LRP's ticket, even though the LRP's platform was mostly different then Democratic ideas of the time, and few hard core Democrats backed Charles O'Conor and the Straight-Out Democrats
by all signs this looks like a party ending and a new party being born, but the LRP died shortly after the election, and the Dems are still here. so what POD is needed to end the Democratic Party in 1872?