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Keys to Ventura's 1998 Gubernatorial Victory |
a) Already established name recognition (Wrestling career & Radio show)
b) Minnesota historically 3rd party/independent friendly
c) Was given access to debates
d) superior campaign skills
e) Stood out from "two-suits" that were actually very similar
f) Previous political experience as Mayor of Brooklyn Park
g) Did not run against incumbent
h) Opponents made critical campaign mistakes
i) Able to bring non-voters to polls, 28% of Ventura's votes would not have voted otherwise |
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Victoria Woodhul |
a) first woman ever nominated for the presidency (Equal Rights Party) 1872
b) Accomplished 48 years before Women's suffrage |
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States' Rights Democrats (Dixiecrat Party) - Briefly define, identify, or explain |
a) Strom Thurman standard-bearer
b) Aimed to deny Truman necessary majority of electors - failed
c) Compelled Democrats to ignore civil rights commitments as price for receiving Dixiecrat electoral votes
d) complained about the national Democrats’ liberal constituencies and pro-union bent
e) Dixiecrat movement had really come to life to protest the Democrats’ developing devotion to civil rights for African Americans
f) proclaimed themselves to be the true Democrats, the mechanism in effect to correct the national party’s errant course
g) Main platforms: segregation, white supremacy, and states’ rights
h) party’s appeal almost entirely in the South |
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George Wallace's American Independent Party: Why most important short-lived party in last half of 20th century |
a) crusade of people wanting to shout to all those in power that they were mad as hell about what was happening in the 1960s.
b) 1968 to show opposition of Black suffrage and desegregation
c) symbolically defying the commitment of federal power to desegregating the University of Alabama.
d) Wallace was on ballot in all 50 states in 1968 (Not in DC)
e) Described as, "remarkable triumph of participatory democracy at the grassroots"
f) Speaking as a populist, Wallace declared that this campaign would speak for and empower the nation’s cops, dime-store clerks, hard hats, and people who love God, pay their taxes, and obey the law.
g) Typical voter: white, unskilled worker under thirty years old who lacked a high school diploma and had little if any self-identity as a Democrat or Republican.
h) most likely to oppose school integration, want to use all necessary force to suppress urban violence, and believe that the federal government was too powerful.
i) using to appeal to voters. It denounced a national establishment unwilling or unable to deal with “riots, minority group rebellions, domestic disorders, student protests, spiraling living costs, soaring interest rates, a frightening increase in the crime rate, war abroad and a loss of personal liberty at home.
j) quarter of the electorate backed him in mid-September, that number had seriously eroded as November approached
k) 10 Million votes received, 13.5 percent share of the national vote was the third-highest return any post– Civil War nonmajor-party candidate had received up to that time
l) The influence of Wallace and his American Independent Party on the direction of the GOP and on the fate of both the Republicans and Democrats was substantial. |
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Robert La Follette Sr (Progressive Campaign) |
a) Was on every ballot except Louisiana in 1924
b) strongly influenced the nationwide progressive agenda and accomplishment during the earliest years of the twentieth century
c) Elected governor of Wisconsin in 1901
d) brought the techniques of science to his program of change
e) Wisconsin under La Follette’s influence pioneered the use of primaries, initiatives and referenda, and advanced conservation measures
f) In 1906 he went to the U.S. Senate, where he remained until his death in 1925
g) From his Senate position, La Follette devoted himself to sharing the “Wisconsin Idea” with the nation at large
h) Vying for the 1912 GOP presidential nomination, La Follette had ended behind both Taft and Roosevelt. He tried again, without success, over each of the next three election rounds.
i) Roosevelt, he said, was an opportunist who manipulated and used the progressive program to further his own political ambitions.
j) deeply disenchanted with Woodrow Wilson and his administration. The Wisconsinite regarded America’s 1917 entry into Word War I as an act of deep presidential cynicism. Wilson, after all, had won reelection in 1916 reminding voters that “he kept us out of war.”
k) convinced that Russia’s peasants loved Lenin, and he predicted that the Soviet Union would eventually develop a genuine socialist democracy. After his visit, he called on other American progressives to go and observe for themselves the Soviet experiment in building a new society.
l) Conference for Progressive Political Action (CPPA). Some of these “La Follette radicals” already were thinking about the CPPA as a foundation upon which a new mass party might be constructed; but as the name they chose suggested, they were not ready to take that step.
m) 1924 platform - condemned monopolies, imperialism, militarism, and war.
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La Raza Unida Party |
a) Jose Angel Gutierrez, Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales, and Mario Campean: Founders of La Raza Unida Party, 1970
b) Alfredo Zamora: La Raza Unida Party, first Chicano mayor of Cotulla, Texas
c) el Partido de la Raza Unida— the United People’s Party (RUP for short) 33 —was born at a January 17, 1970, meeting attended in Crystal City by three hundred Mexican Americans
d) During the course of the 1970s other Raza Unida chapters grew up in Arizona, New Mexico, and California and even in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Washington, D.C.
e) Deeply rooted in Civil Rights movement due to the high number of minority followers
f) held its first (and only) national convention in El Paso in 1972. g) The demographic profiles of those who attended— estimates range from 1,500 to 3,000— attested to the party’s vigor.
h) Participants came from eighteen states. About half were women, and gathered in El Paso were large numbers of the middle aged and seniors sitting alongside the many who made up the party’s young activist core. i) The RUP ultimately failed to build a strong, durable national governing body. This could be attributed in part to a sustained and bitter rivalry between Gutierrez and Gonzales, the party’s two caudillos. j) The personal ambition to lead was one problem their party faced, but there also was strife growing out of the sharp ideological cleavages within Raza Unida. |
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Alice Paul (National Women's Party) |
a) Founder of NWP in 1912 and was pivotal in Women's suffrage
b) drafted a new provision of law and then set out to press Congress to propose to the states that it be ratified as a constitutional amendment: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. This article shall take effect two years after the date of ratification.”
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Black Panther Party - Demise/Death of the party |
a) Very macho image and style, very slow to embrace feminist movement
b) 1970s, decreasing membership and internal animosities, but not catalyst in the demise of the party
c) Federal policy destroyed organization; COINTELPRO (FBI counter-intel.) - stealth policy with very little opposition in media or public and systemic targeted assault - Spread false roomers & misinformation among party - letters with false accusations about party members and leaders and surveillance of Party activities and members |
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Huey Newton & Bobby Seale |
Founders and leaders of the Black Panther Party |
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Tam Watson & William Jennings Bryan |
Two important figures in the 1890s history of the People's Party (Populist) |
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John Bell and John C. Breckenridge |
Third-party presidential nominees who ran against Lincoln and Douglas in 1860 |
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Henry Wallace & Strom Thurmond |
3rd-party challengers whose presence in the 1948 race threatened to spoil election quest of incumbent Harry Truman |
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Richard Lamm & and Pat Buchanan |
Candidates who sought or won the Reform Party presidential nomination |
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Lucy Burns(National Woman's Party) |
Activist in suffrage movement and closest friend of Founding leader of National Woman's Party (Alice Paul) |
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Lenora Fulani (New Alliance Party) |
a) Presidential nominee in 1988 & 1992
b) first woman and first black to appear on all 51 ballots |
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Belva Ann Lockwood (Equal Rights Party) |
a) nominee in 1884 presidential election (2nd woman) |
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Fannie Lou Hamer (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party) |
Leader and eloquent spokesperson for the party in 1964 |
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Bull Moose Progressive Party (Blind spot in progressive stance) |
a) refused to seat black delegates from the South and rejected W.E.B. Dubois anti-discriminatory plank |
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Teddy Roosevelt: Running as Bull Moose Progressive |
1912 BMP Nomination and victory made TR the Third ex-president to seek re-election and has been the last to do so |
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Ross Perot's 1992 Campaign |
One 20th century election that saw non-major-party presidential candidate campaign spent as much as or more than major-party candidates each spent |
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John Anderson (1980 National Unity campaign) |
a) Had a long record in US House as rep of district in Illinois as Republican
b) Despite NUC brand, Anderson made it clear he was running as an independent, not to build new major party
c) Sought voice of moderate Republicans dissatisfied with Carter's presidential choice
d) Exit polls showed appeal especially with Jews, college grads, self-identified independents, and young voters |
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George C. Wallace and (American Independent Party) |
a) Remembered for 1960s speech, "segregation now, tomorrow, forever" and stand in schoolhouse door
b) young ballot crackers got supreme court to put his name on 50 ballots in 1968
c) voter: unskilled, white, no self-id with major party, under 30
d) in first gov campaign, 1958, won support of NAACP and Alabama Jewish community |
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Progressive Party (1948 Campaign) |
a) 1948 nominee served as vice-president and held cabinet post during FDR presidency (Henry Wallace)
b) Key position (party) opposition to the cold-war
c) largest vote in New York under "American Labor Party"
d) Vote tallies may have altered electoral vote outcome in a few states, but was NOT a spoiler in the election |
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Greenback and People's (Populist) Parties - Similarities of late 19th century |
a) Both were early partisan movements coalescing farmer and labor interests
b) Both reached out bi-racially (blacks and whites)
c) Both adopted platforms with progressive policy objectives
d) Both advocated "soft" or easy money policies |
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Wizard of Oz is an allegory, presenting the social critique and vision of party supported by writer L. Frank Baum |
People's party (Populist) |
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Ross Perot - Life and Personality |
a) Born middle class, then became billionaire b) Rather short (5'6") speaks high-pitched Texas accent c) Engineered daring release of employees held hostage in Iran d) as presidential candidate, strong opponent of North american Free Trade Act and advocate of balancing federal budget
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Ross Perot - 1992 Presidential Campaign |
a) Formally launched campaign on Larry King Live on CNN in 1992 b) July, announced leaving race, October announced return to race c) Name appeared on 50 ballots and Washington DC d) 1/5 popular vote (2nd highest by non-major party in 20th century) and received 0/538 electoral votes |
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Bull Moose Progressive Party and Teddy Roosevelt |
a) Vote tally put him ahead of incumbent William Taft but behind Woodrow Wilson (Dem.) b) Campaigning for third-term as president c) Hiram Johnson (running mate) was gov of California d) Wounded by would-be assassin giving campaign speech in Milwaukee |
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Shortlived (transient) national parties |
a) Once they've stung, they die b) Importance and impact and demise |
