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The first Republican to serve as governor of the state, he became known as the father of the Republican Party in Kentucky. After a well-received speech seconding the presidential nomination of Ulysses S. Grant at the 1880 Republican National Convention, he was nominated for governor in 1887. He lost the general election that year, but won in 1895, capitalizing on divisions in the Democratic Party over the issue of free silver. His term was marked by political struggles and violence. He advanced the

Lincoln was elected as the 16th President of the United States. Abraham Lincoln was the first of the Republican Party (The Grand Old Party) to be the President. He won the election with only approximately 40% (1,855,993) of the votes. Yet, he still beat John Breckenridge from the Southern Democratic Party, John Bell from the Constitutional Union and Stephen Douglas for the Northern Democratic Party. Abraham Lincoln was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky to his parents Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln

the senate was short one vote to kick him out. By November 1868 elections, a new candidate was ready to be cooked, Ulysses Grant. However, Grant was a realist, and he knew that southerners were going to revolt to keep their slaves, slaves at some

Randi Dean Professor James Simmons AFRS 161 03 December 2017 African Americans: Conservative Democrats It is no secret that African Americans are a majority democratic race. Most follow blindly behind democrats because of their families influence over the years. However common views of African Americans align with those of republicans. In the recent years republicans have came off as anti-black or systematically racist which is what deterred African Americans away. This report will take

image he created for himself as a candidate of the people. The growing support must have grown exponentially because Jackson won a landslide victory against Henry Clay in the election of 1832. This landslide victory shocked members on both political parties, Jackson even won in Clay’s home state of Kentucky (Remini, American

changing of attitude in America and how it affected the conservative movement. He covers the Reagan era which was considered the golden age of modern conservatism, along with several other important events. Along with the revival of the churches and the New Deal. For this response I will discuss Critchlow’s argument and how he supported it. Along with Critchlow’s view on neo-conservatives and whether they damaged or helped the conservative movements. The final thing I will talk about is who Critchlow mentioned

part of the party systems referred to as political parties. Political parties are a group of people with the same ideas and connections about the government. They want to get their viewpoints across, and therefore form groups/parties in order to be heard by the government. There are many different viewpoints between democrats and republicans. Some of these issues include abortion, education, the death penalty, economy, faith, health care, gay rights, and even gun control. Both parties are trying to

greatest threat to the party is Donald Trump, he is so disliked that the Democrats have been reenergized and are marching, planning for midterms and even planning on winning back the White House in 2020. Lilla states that the party is getting ahead of itself and needs to work on internal party problems before they can successfully recapture the White House and shape the nation they want it to be. When looking to the past, the Democrats have showcased themselves as the party of the people. “Up until

corruption in Washington and restore the democratic power to the American people.” When Sanders, a relatively unknown, small state senator of Vermont officially announced on May 26, 2015 that he was running for the presidency, the media coverage was relatively scarce. For years the Democratic National Committee (DNC) led by the former co-chairman for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign and mainstream media had assumed Hillary Clinton to be the Democratic nominee. According to these “pundits

Hillary Clinton’s recent self-proclamation of “securing” the Democratic nomination, along with the heated 2016 presidential election, has come an Independent, Progressive political movement, with citizens calling for action against a system widely believed to have failed them. “It’s time to finally have a vibrant, exciting, VIABLE third party in this country, a place where many of us who feel disenfranchised; Progressives, Greens, Democratic Socialists, Independents, and frustrated Democrats and Republicans