tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7696446405100112491.post8507885120418456315..comments2023-10-31T06:45:58.112-08:00Comments on The Least of All Evils: Lies My Blogger Told Me; Or:The Republicans Were Never A Third PartyDale Sheldon-Hesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07974707193305445403noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7696446405100112491.post-36329865270946318812010-11-13T10:24:20.145-09:002010-11-13T10:24:20.145-09:00Well done,
This is why I focus on local third par...Well done,<br /><br />This is why I focus on local third parties to make the current two major parties get reincarnated...<br /><br />dlwDLWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17709279441985086959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7696446405100112491.post-51200397970995465102010-05-24T09:38:20.341-08:002010-05-24T09:38:20.341-08:00It's suppose to be the number of members in th...It's suppose to be the number of members in the house. Although, I got the numbers from Wikipedia, and recently I've been comparing them to the house clerk's numbers, and they don't match up.<br /><br />http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp<br /><br />What I want to do is mine the biographic data from the clerk to 1.) get correct party counts (this should be fairly easy) 2.) mine the biographic data to find the exact number of congressmen elected as Whigs who were later involved with the Republicans, and Republicans previously involved with the Whigs, where "involved" includes political activity other than congressional wins (like governor or other state and local offices.) That will be a bit more difficult, and I just haven't found the time for it yet.Dale Sheldon-Hesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07974707193305445403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7696446405100112491.post-31700235940177165362010-05-23T20:33:51.526-08:002010-05-23T20:33:51.526-08:00What does the y-axis on the graph represent? Is i...What does the y-axis on the graph represent? Is it number of members in congress or something else? Also, although I knew that most Republicans were western Whigs that had left the party because of its refusal to say anything about slavery, what jumps out at me from the graph is that the 1854 election seems to have seen a bunch of Democrats switch to the Know-Nothing (American) party.Kennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09588770173317316837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7696446405100112491.post-8877160065062967122010-05-10T12:05:56.874-08:002010-05-10T12:05:56.874-08:00My point is that the politicians who ran as Republ...My point is that the politicians who ran as Republicans in 1854 were predominantly the same politicians who ran as Whigs in 1852 (the ones who continued to run as Whigs were predominantly in the south, as the Republicans were a decidedly northern party). My second point is that that isn't the approach that any modern third party is taking, so it's silly (and probably counter-productive) to estimate their prospects using the Republican party as a template.<br /><br />...which admittedly, doesn't come across in the graph. Let me see if I can find a better representation, and come back to this.<br /><br />(Compare with how in general the only successful "independent" candidates for elected office are ones who were formerly elected on the banner of the Republican or Democratic parties.)Dale Sheldon-Hesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07974707193305445403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7696446405100112491.post-74482698388533012252010-05-08T04:05:41.096-08:002010-05-08T04:05:41.096-08:00Looks to me like in 1854 both Whigs and Republican...Looks to me like in 1854 both Whigs and Republicans were running -- and that Republicans displaced the Whigs, taking in a lot of their leaders.That's likely how a third party would break through in the modern era, so I don't get your point.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com