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Who were the 2000 Democratic candidates?
2000 Democratic Party presidential primaries
Candidate | Al Gore | Bill Bradley |
Home state | Tennessee | New Jersey |
Delegate count | 3,007 | 522 |
Contests won | 56 | 0 |
Popular vote | 10,885,814 | 3,027,912 |
Who ran for president as a Democrat in 2008?
2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries
Candidate | Barack Obama | Hillary Clinton |
Home state | Illinois | New York |
Delegate count | 2,272.5 | 1,978 |
Contests won | 33 | 23 (without MI and FL) |
Popular vote | 17,535,458 | 17,493,836 |
What Democrats ran for President 1948?
Elected President The 1948 United States presidential election was the 41st quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 2, 1948. In one of the greatest election upsets in American history, incumbent President Harry S. Truman, the Democratic nominee, defeated Republican Governor Thomas E. Dewey.
Who was Michael Dukakis’s running mate?
Background. Michael Dukakis was the 65th and 67th Governor of Massachusetts, from 1975 to 1979 and 1983 to 1991. His running mate, Lloyd Bentsen, was a senator from Texas and a member of the United States Senate Committee on Finance who had previously run for the Democratic nomination in 1976.
Who ran as Gore’s VP?
In August 2000, Gore announced that he had selected Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut as his vice presidential running mate. Lieberman became “the first person of the Jewish faith to run for the nation’s second-highest office” (Barry Goldwater, who ran for president in 1964, was of “Jewish origin”).
Who ran against Obama for his first term?
Candidate
2012 Republican Party ticket | |
Mitt Romney | Paul Ryan |
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for President | for Vice President |
70th Governor of Massachusetts (2003–2007) | U.S. representative from Wisconsin (1999–2019) |
Campaign |
What President followed Truman?
Harry S. Truman | |
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Vice President | None (1945–1949) Alben W. Barkley (1949–1953) |
Preceded by | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Succeeded by | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
34th Vice President of the United States |
Who ran for president in 1952?
Elected President The 1952 United States presidential election was the 42nd quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 4, 1952. Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower won a landslide victory over Democrat Adlai Stevenson, ending a string of Democratic Party wins that stretched back to 1932.
Who Won president in 1988?
Bush won the election by 426 electoral votes. Governor of Massachusetts Michael Dukakis got 111 electoral votes.
What was Dukakis’s first name?
Michael Stanley Dukakis (/dʊˈkɑːkɪs/; born November 3, 1933) is an American retired lawyer and politician who served as governor of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1979 and again from 1983 to 1991.
Who ran against Obama?
Popular vote
Candidate | Votes |
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Hillary Clinton | 18,225,175 |
Barack Obama | 17,988,182 |
John Edwards | 1,006,275 |
Uncommitted | 299,610 |