your vote: a interactive joint TL

presidential election, 1796

  • John Adams (Federalist)

    Votes: 28 33.7%
  • Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)

    Votes: 36 43.4%
  • Thomas Pinckney (Federalist)

    Votes: 7 8.4%
  • Aaron Burr (Democratic-Republican)

    Votes: 12 14.5%

  • Total voters
    83
  • Poll closed .
still seems uncomfortably close for John Adams right now and considering the election goes until saturday, I wouldn't write Jefferson off just yet.
 
i thought that this would be a Jefferson land slide this is amazingly close and a Adams lead most of the time :eek: every time we've ever talked about Adams people here have had mostly bad things to say, it's shocking to me that he's winning, (i like Adams, though i voted Jefferson)
 
Heck, I voted for him too... I just want to see the second term be the butterfly.

He's still managing to keep that narrow lead so far.
 

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Hmm...I was really, really tempted to vote for Burr, but I went for Jefferson, because I wanted to help tip the balance in his favor. I wish Burr had a chance, because then he'd have my vote. Don't you just love democracy?:rolleyes:

Btw, tie-breaking vote, FTW...
 
Here's the OTL Results:

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In the end, just to get them to tie, Jefferson would have had to completely win Maryland, Delaware, or the three votes in VA, NC, and PA.

How about if Jefferson wins all the electoral votes of the five previously mentioned states?

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will the Adams voters please stand up and tell us why?

He's antislavery.
He's Pro-British, so this makes 1812 LESS likely.

And I think early action might lead to a better way around slavery, states rights, and tensions with Britain. A longer rein of Federalists will probably butterfly the Civil war.
 
He's antislavery.
He's Pro-British, so this makes 1812 LESS likely.

And I think early action might lead to a better way around slavery, states rights, and tensions with Britain. A longer rein of Federalists will probably butterfly the Civil war.

Then again, if Jefferson screws up a 1796 term, it could give the Federalist Party a new Lease on life.;)
 
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