quote:Originally posted by TSN: Nor would I. Fortunately for them, though, they used 1160 people.
Or were you being sassy?
I was commenting on the fact that the poll produced a result of 41 to 46. So either they were using 87 people, or they should spend less time creating polls and more time brushing up on their maths.
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quote:I was commenting on the fact that the poll produced a result of 41 to 46. So either they were using 87 people, or they should spend less time creating polls and more time brushing up on their maths.
Or, you know, it was 41 to 46 percent.
Marian
PS: That does beg the question, though: what about the other 13%?
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Those were the few remaining intelligent people who actually recognized that the poll was asinine and opted for "no preference", naturally.
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quote:Omega's right, it wasn't a merger. The Democratic Republicans were one early party, and the Whigs and Federalists were others.
Correct.
The Democratic Republican name simply denotes the name of an early political party in the United States.
By naming the party Democratic Republican, it represents an attempt by its leadership to capture the spirit of the two abstract concepts of democracy and republicanism and to define themselves in those terms. Moreover, it serves to paint the Federalists party as the party in opposition to those concepts.
However, the name does not link the Democratic Republicans to the modern incarnations of the Democratic or Republican parties or in any way signal the working together of these two parties in the past.
In the same way that modern Democrats and Republicans have core ideological differences, so to did early parties like the Federalists and the Democratic Republicans.
quote:Then this third-party spoiler named Lincoln came along and upset everything (the Federalists were extinct at that point, IIRC). I'm not sure when the Democratic Republicans came to be known as just Democrats, but I think Lincoln's party was already known as (just) Republicans when he was elected.
Also correct.
quote:On July 6, 1854, in Jackson, Mich., the Republican Party formally organized itself by holding its first convention, adopting a platform and nominating a full slate of candidates for state offices. Other states soon followed, and the first Republican candidate for president, John C. Fr�mont, ran in 1856 with the slogan "Free soil, free labor, free speech, free men, Fr�mont."
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