Timeline (President Tilden)

Samuel Tilden with Thomas A. Hendricks gets elected president 1876, winning California by a razor-thin margin.

1878: Tilden is almost assassinated by an anti-Democrat exremist

Tilden is vastly unpopular by 1880, and loses reelection to James G. Blaine with John A. Logan.

Blaine, despite growing unpopularity, wins reelection in 1884 by a narrow margin.

1888: Grover Cleveland with Allen G. Thurman defeats Blaine Vice President John Logan.

1891: Thomas Brackett Reed, Speaker of the House, announces plans to run for President. He is considered a shoo-in for the Republican nomination.

August, 1892: Cleveland attempting to link Reed and the unpopular Blaine (both were from Maine), the witty, likeable and friendly Reed is able to maintain a lead in the polls.

October, 1892: Cleveland calls Redd "Czar Reed" (what Democrats would call Reed because of the way he ran the House), in a newspaper interview. Reed fires back "I attended public schools, worked my way through Bowdoin College, and worked my way to the position I'm in now. Perhaps, Mr. President, they should look at you if they want a Czar." in his own newpspare interview.

November, 1892: Reed wins the election in a landslide.

1896: Benjamin Bristow, Reed's Vice President, dies. Matthew S. Quay is chosen to replace him.

Thomas Brackett Reed is reelected without fanfare in 1896.

1900: Democrat William Jennings Bryan defeats presumably stronger candidate Levi P. Morton by a narrow margin. Bryan's Vice President, Arthur Sewall, is ridiculed as being inexperienced throughout his presidency.

1904: Matthew S. Quay is presumed to be the next Republican nominee for president. However, he dies in May, throwing the party into chaos. William B. Allison comes away the the Republican nomination, and defeats Bryan in the election.

1908: William B. Allison dies. Levi P. Morton becomes president.

1908: Out of nowhere, former Republican turned Progressive Theodore Roosevelt defeats both Morton/Taft and the divided Democrats, who renominated Bryan.

1910: The entire Republican Party is swallowed by the might of the Progressives. Gold Democrats vs. Free Silver Democrats put the Democratic Party in a difficult spot.

1912: Roosevelt wins reelection without much fanfare, defeating Adlai Stevenson. Eugene Debs does surprisingly well in some states.

1916: Roosevelt stuns everyone, running for a third term. The move was considered political suicide, and disgusts some of even his staunchest supporters. The Progressives split the vote between Roosevelt and Hiram Johnson, Roosevelt’s former VP. Eugene Debs wins the state of Indiana. Woodrow Wilson wins a plurality of the vote with Thomas R. Marshall, and takes the election. William Howard Taft, one of the few remaining Republicans, comes in last.

1920: Woodrow Wilson wins reelection over Debs and Progressive John W. Weeks

1924: Progressive Robert La Follette with Burton K. Wheeler wins the election over James Cox.

1928: La Follette wins reelection over William Gibbs McAdoo.

1932: McAdoo with Herbert Hoover defeats La Follette VP Burton Wheeler.

1936: Progressive Franklin Roosevelt with former Democrat turned Progressive James Cox defeats Democrat McAdoo.

1940: Progressive Franklin Roosevelt defeats Democrat Al Smith.

1944: Roosevelt stuns everyone by running for a third term. Unlike earlier with Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressives throw their full support behind Roosevelt, and the Democrats have a weak candidate in Alf Landon. Roosevelt wins in a landslide.

1945: Franklin Roosevelt dies. James Cox becomes president.

1948: Democrat Thomas Dewey defeats Progressive Harry Truman, as Cox doesn't want to run for a full term.

1952: Progressive Dwight Eisenhower with Earl Warren defeats Democrat Thomas Dewey

1956: Eisenhower defeats Adlai Stevenson

1960: Progressive John F. Kennedy with Hubert Humphrey narrowly defeats Democrat Barry Goldwater.

1963: Kennedy discovers a complex assassination plot against him, involving the Mafia, the Secret Service, the FBI, Cuba, Cuban exiles, and an American spy in the Soviet Union. The plot is revealed in several major newspapers, and by Walter Cronkite on the CBS Evening News.

1964: Progressive John F. Kennedy defeats Democrat Barry Goldwater again, but this time by a landslide.

1968: Democrat Richard Nixon defeats Hubert Humphrey of the Progressives

1972: Progressive Edmund Muskie with George McGovern defeats Democratic incumbent Richard Nixon.

1976: Progressive Edmund Muskie defeats Democrat Nelson Rockefeller.

1980: Democrat Ronald Reagan with Bob Dole defeats Progressive George McGovern.

1984: Ronald Reagan defeats Progressive Gary Hart in a landslide.

1988: Progressive Jerry Brown with Michael Dukakis defeats the notoriously weak candidate Harold Stassen in a landslide

September, 1992: A bitter battle is fought in the Democratic primaries between Phil Gramm, Texas Senator, and Reagan Vice President Bob Dole. Gramm ultimately wins the Democratic nomination narrowly.

November, 1992: Brown defeats Democrat Phil Gramm, by a decent margin, but not as big as when Brown defeated Stassen in 1988.

1996: Progressive Al Gore with Bill Bradley defeats Democrat Bob Dole, former Reagan Vice President.

2000: Al Gore defeats Democrat Jack Kemp by a decent margin.

2004: Democrat John McCain with George W. Bush defeats Progressive John Kerry.

2008: Progressive Hillary Clinton with Barack Obama defeats John McCain.

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