when Wilke ran for president of the U.S.
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Just before leaving for Colorado, Willkie announced that Representative Joseph Martin, House Republican leader, would be the new GOP National Chairman and his campaign manager.\n\nHere is an excellent website on the 1940 campaign:\nhttp://www.usfamily.net/web/timwalker/sitedocs/camp.html
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George Washington had such a difficult second term in his relations with Congress and the Press (a phenomenon that has applied to almost all his successors) that when it expired in March 1797, and although he was asked to run again (in which case he would have been the first President to have died in office as he died in 1799), he declared "two terms are enough for any man" and because this was a dictum of the Father of the Nation it was treated as an iron rule as if it were part of the Constitution by men such as Jefferson (reluctantly), Jackson and Grant who might have well have been reelected to a further term. Cleveland stood down in 1893 and did not run for renomination even though his two terms had been separate not consecutive (he is even counted twice, as a consequence in the list of US Presidents).\n\nOn being elected in his own right in 1904 (after succeeding McKinley who was assassinated shortly after his inauguration for a second term in 1901) Theodore Roosevelt declared that he regarded his assumption of McKinley's unexpired term as his own first term and that, consequently, he would not run for reelection in 1908. His wife told him that this was the biggest mistake he had ever made and she was proved right. Constantly at odds with his own Republican Party, particularly regarding domestic policy, his legislative programme was blocked by Congress. His successor, Taft, whilst sharing Roosevelt's views on foreign policy did not share Roosevelt's progressive agenda at home and so in 1912 Roosevelt ran again for what was effectively a third term. However, because he was denied the Republican nomination and had to run as an independent, he effectively split the Republican vote and handed the election to the Democratic candidate, Woodrow Wilson.\n\nThere is no evidence that his cousin, Franklin Roosevelt, intended to run for a third term in 1940 and he canvassed other possibilities, including Cordell Hull, his Secretary of State. However there was no other candidate in the Democratic Party at the time who possessed FDR's pulling power at the head of the ticket and it was with somer relief on the part of the office-holders who were running for reelection that year when Roosevelt announced that because of the Fall of France in June and the crisis in Europe and Asia occasioned by the outbreak of WWII he would accept the draft of the Democratic Party Convention that year (incumbent Presidents did not then attend party conventions) and run for reelection. Republicans tried to make this breach of Washington's dictum a campaign issue as part of their attack on Roosevelt's alleged grasping for power at the expense of the other branches of government and his attempt to construct an "imperial Presidency" (particularly after a limited form of the draft was introduced for the first time in peacetime in September)and there were many references to "King Franklin III" but such attacks made little impact on the electorate and he was easily reelected over Wendell Willkie (ironically a former Democrat who had voted for FDR in 1932) and they seemed to accept Lincoln's famous anecdote about the farmer who had told him that it was wise not to change horses when crossing dangerous streams.\n\nRoosevelt's decision to run for a fourth term in 1944 was much less controversial as, like Lincoln in 1864, he was running for reelection as Commander-in-Chief during a wartime situation despite the fact that, as we know now, and probably so did he at the time, he was in the grip of a terminal illness and, like Lincoln, would not see out his term of office.\n\nAfter the war the extension of Roosevelt's term of office was seen as unusual occasioned by the crisis caused by WWII and FDR's own extraordinary personality. It was argued that an incumbent had a great advantage in seeking reelection and a failure to limit that advantage might result in an "elective dictatorship". It i
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Theodore Roosevelt's decision to run as a progressive party candidate had a major effect of splitting the Republican party vote and represents probably the only time in American History where a third party candidate has won a significant share of the vote. I think that there is a strong likelihood that if Roosevelt had not run, Taft would have won a second term.
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I was always a Republican that was until the Clinton Administration, I can now say that I am Democratic and I will vote for any Clinton that runs for office. He was awesome, regardless of the scandel, which I must say was just being human, thousands of men cheat on their wives every day, thousands of men lie about it. If everyone wanted a President with high morals they would have chosen a woman years ago. Men have 2 brains both of which they will use to think with, women don't
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yes he did say that, but it wasnt at the alamo. the actual quote is:\n\nSince you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas. \n\nthis was his final statement on his congressional defeat.\n\nhope this helped =]]
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Gore had it won in 2000 ! Bush did not win He cheated His way in ! Millions of Peoples votes disappeared...The way things are going with Bush and after Bush Leaves I think Elmo would be best President for 2008 ! at least he is honest !
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The American peoples biggest gaff was electing him in the first place......
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We had a woman for president.\nHillary.\nHer husband was just a figurehead.
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Hello, he had two terms and he won of GWB's Daddy.\n\nYou can also look here at Wikipedia.\n\nHope this helps you...........................................................  :-O
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i think that you are forgetting that our president at the time, FDR, had some of the most liberal legislation in our nation's history passed while he was in office. Learn you history!
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He never wanted the job.  He simply wanted to show the country that we didn't only have to choose Democrat or Republican nominees and ideologies.  He also had a plan that would have balanced the budget along with ways to fix a number of other problems.  He had these plans written down in black and white and explained them well.  This is why he would have won if he hadn't jumped out.  However, he jumped out because he didn't want the job.  The reason he got back in was because he got frustrated that even still, neither republican nor democrat were moving past the politics to actually try and fix things.  He thought he could make our country a better place and felt then that it was his duty to try.  Our country could have been in a much better place than it is in today.
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Assuming you're talking about the Presidential election, the major (i.e., got over 100,000 votes) candidates were:\n\nRepublican: George W. Bush\nDemocrat:  John F. Kerry\nReform:  Ralph Nader\nLibertarian:  Michael Badnarik\nConstitution:  Michael Peroutka\nGreen:  David Cobb\n\nCandidates from several smaller parties also received votes.
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It was a mostly Republican decade as Ronald Reagan was elected President in 1980 and re-elected in a landslide in 1984.  George H.W. Bush (W's Dad) won in 1988.
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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland :\n\nStephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was the 22nd (1885–1889) and 24th (1893–1897) President of the United States, and the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms. He was the only Democrat elected to the Presidency in the era of Republican political domination between 1860 and 1912, and was the first Democrat to be elected after the Civil War.\n\nCleveland's portrait was on the U.S. $1000 bill from 1928 to 1946. He also appeared on a $1000 bill of 1907 and the first few issues of the $20 Federal Reserve notes from 1914.
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I guess the answer is that he was never elected. More or less, they needed a leader, and he stepped up to the plate. I don't even know if they asked him to do it....but i think they did. But there wasn't yet an election protocol set up yet, so that's not really a reason why he shouldn't. He even retired for a while and then came back when they needed someone to help in the war. But he wasn't really "re-elected". In general he was more or less an elected leader, not a president. Someone with the balls to be in charge.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt. The many changes he made in government made America a much better place to live than before he took office.
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Since Lincoln Chafee was a Republican, he was able to tap the RNC for funds. But since he lost he doesnt want to be a Republican.  He's a political opportunist.