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Eddv 05/31/20 11:00:32 AM #1: |
1788/1792 - The Federalists took the House and Senate with 100% of the vote
1796 - John Adams (F) d. Thomas Jefferson (DR) with 73.6% of the vote 1800 - John Adams (F) d. Thomas Jefferson (DR) with 80% of the vote 1804 - Thomas Jefferson (DR) d. Charles Pinckney (F) with 66% of the vote 1808 - James Madison (R) d. Charles Pincknet (F) and George Clinton (DR) with 42% of the vote Hey all welcome to Board 8 Elects! a topic series in which we discuss each historical election from the perspective of the year it took place in! The idea here is to re-litigate each election from the perspective of when it took place. I will be providing each candidates platform (where possible) so the merits of the election can be discussed and voted on. If possible lets speak of the issues in the present tense. I am going to ask you vote via BOLDING the name of the candidate rather than providing a poll because I feel the poll encourages gut voting and I would really like to see some discussion. Topics will be live for 3 or 4 days - basically until I make the next topic voting will be active in this one. --- Welcome to the Election of 1812 - the country is at war! And the country is more or less split on whether or not they even support it. And that's IN SPITE of the fact that the war is here in the United States and has featured British Soldiers and their Native American allies winning most of the early battles. Meet the Candidates: The Republicans have nominated 61 year old incumbent president James Madison for the presidency once again, and are de facto the pro-war party this time around as it was Madison, not the British, who declared the war. George Clinton died in 1811 and was not likely to appear on the ticket again after the stunt he pulled. In an attempt to win support in New England, where the war is staggeringly unpopular, they have nominated 68 year old Governor of Massachusetts, Elbridge Gerry. The Anti-War Ticket was formed when Northern Republicans and Federalists who oppose the war decided to band together to form a ticket to defeat Madison. The plan was to nominate George Clinton and with his death the plan has gone ahead with his nephew, the 43 year old Mayor of New York City/Lieutenant Governor of New York State, DeWitt Clinton. To balance the ticket, 63-year old Federalist Attorney General of Pennsylvania, Jared Ingersoll has joined with Republican Clinton as a unity ticket. The Issues of the Day
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Eddv 05/31/20 4:57:50 PM #2: |
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Moonroof 05/31/20 5:13:17 PM #4: |
I vote Madison because war is necessary sometimes. He messed up with the embargo act and France so he needs to fix it.
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Reg 05/31/20 5:17:33 PM #5: |
this election kinda really sucks
fuck war and american exceptionalism, and fuck voting for an empty suit figurehead with no real positions or stances ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Eddv 06/01/20 12:00:42 AM #6: |
This election sucks may well be the 1812 overture
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Anagram 06/01/20 1:05:56 AM #7: |
I voted in all of the previous elections, but here I may have to abstain. Madison looks like a bad choice, but I have almost no idea what Clinton stands for.
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Eddv 06/01/20 6:45:20 AM #8: |
That was sort of the entire point of Clinton!
People at the time kinda assumed "like George but less out there" His accomplishments as Mayor include founding the New York Historical Society and creating a major endowment for what would become the New York Public Library. He helped organize funding for the American Academy of the Arts. And, currently in his third term as mayor, is considered to be the best mayor New York City has had to this point. He has also spent most of the last ten years trying to get work on the Erie Canal started and construction on this major work has begun as of 1811, though the war has badly disrupted this major infrastructure project. He personally has served as surveyor for the project and is a well known naturalist, advocating for the creation of wildlife preserves in New York. But in regards to foreign policy, his stance on the war and other national issues he has utterly no profile. --- Board 8's Voice of Reason https://imgur.com/AWY4xHy ... Copied to Clipboard!
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VengefulKaelee 06/01/20 7:24:47 AM #9: |
I was already very strongly considering voting for Pinckney in the last couple of elections despite his "nothingness" as a candidate, as an alternative to the continuation of Virginia Democratic-Republican tomfuckery. But I voted for Madison (which I almost immediately regretted and considered amending), and all of his worst impulses seem to be in the process of being realized. DeWitt Clinton is a New Yorker, which means he doesn't own slaves, and his record as mayor of New York sounds pretty damn positive, so at this point I'm willing to take a chance on a relative unknown rather than staying the current, potentially disastrous course.
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Maniac64 06/01/20 8:40:24 AM #10: |
DeWitt Clinton ina heartbeat.
Madison is horrible and the record Clinton has in New York has some great stuff. And hey he will be hard pressed to be worse on the big issues than Madison --- "Hope is allowed to be stupid, unwise, and naive." ~Sir Chris ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Paratroopa1 06/01/20 9:42:08 AM #11: |
DeWitt Clinton
So I've been like, very highly skeptical of the idea of someone being a "nothing" candidate in a lot of these elections - I really do think it probably applied to Pinckney (slave owner anyway, fuckin' meh) but in general it's really important to remember that the winners write history, or at the very least, get to have the history written about him. Madison has been badly overrated by history 'cause he won but honestly he kinda sucked and hey, maybe DeWitt Clinton would have been a lot better. Anyway I voted for Pinckney anyway so this seems like a no-brainer for me. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Eddv 06/01/20 9:13:09 PM #12: |
Yeah from a meta perspective these early elections are hard because, outside of 1800, the DRs had completely dominated politics for most of this and the people who ran against them didn't really run for election - they just STOOD for election
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Eddv 06/02/20 6:25:23 AM #13: |
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Eddv 06/02/20 8:36:03 PM #14: |
Giving this another bump hoping for a few more votes.
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Anagram 06/02/20 9:02:22 PM #15: |
Clinton
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Brayze_II 06/02/20 11:14:23 PM #16: |
DeWitt Clinton
I'm going to go ahead and say Madison was a pretty bad president, by the metric of 'he completely pooched foreign policy and could well have bumbled into the destruction of the US if the Brits decided they wanted that'. Definitely the low point of an otherwise pretty decent political career --- I'm am hungry I want some lasaga ... Copied to Clipboard!
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NFUN 06/02/20 11:42:58 PM #17: |
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Hbthebattle 06/03/20 12:00:01 AM #18: |
Clinton
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