1900s

The rematch of 1896 added imperialism to the money question after the Spanish-American War, as Bryan opposed the takeover of the P...

Roosevelt, the first president to win a full term in his own right after ascending from the vice presidency, dominated the electio...

Roosevelt's chosen successor, Taft, defeated Bryan for a third time, 321 to 162, carrying everything outside the Solid South and N...

The most consequential third-party run in history: Roosevelt, denied the Republican nomination by Taft's control, ran as the Progr...

Running on the slogan he kept us out of war, Wilson barely survived Charles Evans Hughes's challenge, losing the East early before...

The Nineteenth Amendment's ratification more than doubled the eligible electorate, and 26 million votes were cast, doubling 1916. ...

Coolidge, restored to popularity amid prosperity, beat Democrat John W. Davis, the weakest Democratic performance ever at 28.8 per...

Hoover, commerce secretary and prosperity's engineer, crushed New York Governor Al Smith, the first Catholic nominated by a major ...

With a quarter of the workforce idle, farms failing, and Hoover discredited, FDR promised a new deal for the American people and w...

The New Deal's high-water referendum saw FDR lose only Maine and Vermont against Kansas Governor Alf Landon, 523 to 8, with 60.8 p...

Breaking the two-term tradition set by Washington, Roosevelt ran against Wendell Willkie, a utility executive who had been a Democ...

With American forces fighting on two fronts, FDR, visibly aged and concealing heart disease, defeated Thomas Dewey, the young New ...

Abandoned by Dixiecrats backing Thurmond and progressives backing Wallace, and trailing in every poll, Truman embarked on a 22,000...

NATO commander Dwight Eisenhower, courted by both parties, accepted the Republican nomination, pledged to go to Korea, and beat Il...

The first rematch since 1900, and the first under television's full glare, reaffirmed Eisenhower's popularity amid peace and prosp...

The first election with televised debates became the closest of the century: Kennedy's Catholicism, overcome by his calm performan...

After Kennedy's assassination, LBJ's demand for a mandate produced the modern era's most one-sided result: 486 to 52, with 61.1 pe...

Vietnam, the assassinations of King and Kennedy, and urban disorder made 1968 the angriest campaign of the century. Nixon's silent...

Nixon's re-election against George McGovern was a Republican high-water mark: 520 to 17 with 60.7 percent and every state but Mass...

Watergate's residue made the unelected Ford's task nearly impossible, and former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, an unknown promise...

Inflation, hostage misery in Iran, and a malaise mood met Ronald Reagan's are you better off question and sunny conservatism. Reag...

Reagan's morning in America re-election over Walter Mondale was a near sweep, 525 to 13, Mondale's Minnesota alone plus DC, with 5...

Vice President George Bush, once seen as a wimp, recovered a 17-point summer deficit against Michael Dukakis through the Willie Ho...

Recession, read my lips taxes, and Ross Perot's deficit crusade, the most successful independent run by vote share in the century ...

After the budget-shutdown standoff with Gingrich's Congress, Clinton, running on a bridge to the twenty-first century against 73-y...

The Republican Revolution ended forty years of Democratic House control, a run unbroken since 1954. Newt Gingrich's Contract with ...