1855 Election: Knowing Nothing About Electing a Speaker From basically its inception, the Whig coalition was a fusion opposition to the tighter knit Democrats and it was the first to start unraveling due to regional sectionalism brought on by the slavery debate. In the Congress before, the Democrats were firmly…

For those of you who are new to my page, my name is Noah Rudnick and over the last few years, I’ve been writing about elections, from the 1860s, to modern primaries to the future. If you remember anything, then it’s been the fundamental-based House models I made in 2018…

Intro When we previously left off, Martin Van Buren maneuvered his Northern coalition into an alliance with Southern holdouts to elect a slave owning Speaker of the House and the first cracks of the Era of Good Feelings showed through. This would then explode in the presidential election of 1824…

Intro By now, the voting for the Speaker of the US House is largely a coronation. To be sure, there is tons of jockeying in the party caucus beforehand, as well as backstabbing and backroom deals. Just ask our last two Speakers. But a lot of this happens out of…

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The 1906 New York gubernatorial race was one for the ages: The current president stepping in for a future presidential candidate, a propaganda war, and one of America’s most flamboyant demagogues. But when the results came in, 1906 would prove to be a year where the votes were decided on…

Background In 1861, after the election of President Abraham Lincoln, the Southern states seceded from the Union to preserve slavery. Fighting between the two began rather quickly and after a string of early success, the new southern Confederacy began their attempts to legitimize the new country. This ranged from their…

To run a race and lose is demoralizing for most normal people. Some men grow a sad beard, other candidates go off the grid in the woods. Candidates are human and so while a lot try again, it really does hurt and people usually can’t take anymore. This blog post…