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The United States presidential election held on November 3, 1896, climaxed an intensely heated contest in which Republican candidate William McKinley defeated Democrat William Jennings Bryan in one of the most dramatic and complex races in American history.
Like much of rural northern Florida, Bradford County votes heavily Republican in presidential and congressional races, although still occasionally supporting Conservative Democrats in local and state contests.
Like most of the panhandle, Calhoun County votes heavily Republican in presidential and congressional races, although still occasionally supporting Conservative Democrats in local and state contests.
Republican presidential races benefited from the black majority in the county.
Although Democratic presidential candidates have only won the county in four of the last 13 elections ( Kennedy in 1960, Johnson in 1964, Clinton in 1992 and Obama in 2008 ), the races have almost always been close, such as in 1980, when Ronald Reagan won by a landslide nationwide, but by a mere 1 % in Wake County.
He supports his data with statistics on the relation between the blink rates of presidential candidates and their success in their races.
Tactical voting has been used since 2000 as a strategy for the U. S. presidential election, with voters from " safe " states, or nonswing states, voting for third-party candidates, and voters from states with contested races, or swing state, voting for the second-preference candidate of the voters from the third party.
* In 2007 – 2008 PublicMind polled presidential primary races between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and concluded, contrary to many polls, that a significant portion of US voters were not ready for a woman as president
Chandler refused to use his office to support Stevenson, Clements, or Wetherby, and Republicans Dwight D. Eisenhower, John Sherman Cooper, and Thruston Ballard Morton won the presidential and senatorial races in the state.
The group has, however, campaigned for the Green Party in various races and assisted Ralph Nader's presidential campaigns in 2000 and 2004.
Democrats usually win local and state races in landslides, and Barack Obama carried the district with 72 percent of the vote in the 2008 presidential election.
She performed a similar feat for Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1930 gubernatorial and 1932 presidential races.
" Daly resigned from ABC on November 16, 1960 after the network pre-empted the first hour of election night coverage to show Bugs Bunny cartoons and The Rifleman from 7: 30 to 8: 30, while CBS and NBC were covering returns from the Kennedy-Nixon presidential election and other major races.
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These organizations served as the platforms for presidential campaigns by LaRouche starting in 1976, and by his followers in scores of local races.
Before joining the Bartlet for America presidential campaign, Toby was a professional political operative who worked for various political campaigns such as New York City Council seats, Bronx Borough President and U. S. House and Senate races.
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Price stated that " The American people are sick of the relentlessly negative tone of campaigns, particularly in presidential races.
In late December 2006, the site began its 2008 coverage, which included the presidential race, all 33 Senate races, and about 40 House races that had been close in 2006 and were expected to be highly contested in 2008.
In the 2004 presidential election and the simultaneous legislative election, held on November 28, the DA polled better than expected in both races.
Buchanan left the Republican Party after his presidential primary races in 1992 and 1996, and ran as a third-party candidate in the 2000 election.
Bruce's website describes her as a " gay, pro-choice, gun owning, pro-death penalty, Tea Party Independent Conservative " who " worked on a number of Democratic campaigns in 1990s, including the 1992 Boxer and Feinstein senate races and the Clinton for President campaign " and " also has a history of supporting Republicans as well, including President Reagan, both Presidents Bush and, quite reluctantly, John McCain during the 2008 presidential campaign.
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The Politics of Georgia is based on a presidential representative democratic republic ( semi-presidential system ), with a multi-party system, and the President as the head of state and the Prime Minister as the head of the Georgian Government.
In the presidential election of 1824, Van Buren supported William H. Crawford and received the electoral vote of Georgia for vice-president, but he shrewdly kept out of the acrimonious controversy which followed the choice of John Quincy Adams as President.
** Mikhail Saakashvili wins the presidential elections in Georgia.
In Presidential politics, the county is considered a bellwether, as it has voted for the winner of the presidential election in every election since 1976, when the county voted for Republican President Gerald R. Ford, a Michigan Native, in his failed re-election bid against Jimmy Carter, Democratic Governor of Georgia.
Some notable persons either born in or who resided in Columbia County include: Oliver Hardy ( comedian, born in Harlem ), Paul Hamilton Hayne ( poet and author ), Henry Louis Benning ( Confederate general for whom Fort Benning is named ), William Few, Abraham Baldwin, George Walton, George W. Crawford, William H. Crawford ( presidential candidate in 1824 ), Thomas Watson ( populist leader and Georgia senator born in Thomson when it was still in Columbia County ), George McDuffie ( South Carolina governor and senator in the early 19th century ), Jesse Mercer ( a long-time preacher in the county for whom Mercer University is named ).
In 1952, Helms worked on the presidential campaign of Georgia Senator Richard B. Russell.
In the presidential campaign of 1860 he supported John C. Breckinridge, and on December 22, soon after the election of Abraham Lincoln, sent a telegram to Georgia that asserted that " secession by the 4th of March next should be thundered forth from the ballot-box by the united voice of Georgia.
In October 2005, Baltimore resigned the office of the president, saying, " This is not a decision that I have made easily, but I am convinced that the interests of the Institute will be best served by a presidential transition at this particular time in its history ..." Former Georgia Tech Provost Jean-Lou Chameau succeeded Baltimore as president of Caltech.
After great infighting at their St. Louis convention they decided to endorse Bryan but with their own vice presidential nominee, Thomas E. Watson of Georgia.
To stop the rumor, in a letter from Elberton, Akerman published his full endorsement for Ulysses S. Grant and would serve as the Republican presidential state elector from Georgia.
* 1976-U. S. presidential election, 1976 ( Jimmy Carter of Georgia defeats President Ford )
He alerts Lyman and his inner circle: Secret Service Director Art Corwin, Secretary of the Treasury Christopher Todd, presidential adviser Paul Girard, and United States Senator Raymond Clark of Georgia, a political and personal ally of the president.
Georgia was later the first state to reject the Nineteenth Amendment when it was proposed in 1919, and unlike most states in the Union, Georgia did not allow women to vote in the 1920 presidential election.
On 4 January 2004 Mikheil Saakashvili won the presidential elections in Georgia with more than 96 % of the votes cast, making him the youngest national president in Europe.
Pursuant to the Constitution of Georgia, Saakashvili resigned on 25 November to launch his pre-election campaign for early presidential polls.
Saakashvili publicly announced about his plans of modernising the Cabinet of Georgia well before Georgian presidential elections.
She has served as the acting head of state of Georgia twice ; the first time from 23 November 2003 to 25 January 2004 in the wake of Eduard Shevardnadze's resignation during the Rose Revolution, and again from 25 November 2007 to 20 January 2008, when Mikheil Saakashvili stepped down to rerun in the early presidential elections.
The Deep South has voted Republican in presidential elections, except in the 1976 election when Georgia native Jimmy Carter received the Democratic nomination.
In addition, John Kerry had effectively ceded Georgia to George W. Bush early in the presidential campaign.
* March 2-" Super Tuesday " U. S. presidential primaries or caucuses take place in California, Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont.
A presidential election was held in the Republic of Georgia on January 4, 2004.
They were former presidential envoy to the Imereti region Temur Shashiashvili, leader of the Lawyers of Georgia Party Kartlos Garibashvili, one of the leaders of the political organization Mdzleveli, Zurab Kelekhsashvili, the President of the Coalition of Non-Government Organisations of the Disabled Zaza Sikharulidze, and leader of the David Agmashenebeli Party Roin Liparteliani.
Increased support was created after talk radio personality Neal Boortz and Georgia Congressman John Linder published The FairTax Book in 2005 and additional visibility was gained in the 2008 presidential campaign.

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