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  2. Progressive Party (United States, 1948–1955) - Wikipedia

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    The party nominated attorney Vincent Hallinan to run for president in 1952, and Hallinan won 0.2% of the national popular vote. The party began to disband in 1955 as opponents of anti-Communism became increasingly unpopular, and was fully dissolved, with the exception of a few affiliated state Progressive Parties, by the late 1960s.

  3. Progressive Era - Wikipedia

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    One of the most impacting issues African Americans had to face during the Progressive Era was the right to vote. By the beginning of the 20th century, African Americans were "disfranchised", while in the years prior to this, the right to vote had been guaranteed to "freedmen" through the Civil Rights Act of 1870. [165]

  4. Progressivism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    During the term of the progressive Republican President Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909) and influenced by the ideas of philosopher-scientists such as George Perkins Marsh, William John McGee, John Muir, John Wesley Powell and Lester Frank Ward, [58] the largest government-funded conservation-related projects in United States history were ...

  5. 58 percent favor electing presidents based on popular vote ...

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    A near majority of Americans favor amending the Constitution in order to elect presidents based on the popular vote, according to a poll released Friday. The Gallup survey found that 58 percent of ...

  6. List of United States presidential candidates - Wikipedia

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    Since 1824, a national popular vote has been tallied for each election, but the national popular vote does not directly affect the winner of the presidential election. The United States has had a two-party system for much of its history, and the major parties of the two-party system have dominated presidential elections for most of U.S. history ...

  7. Bull Moose Party - Wikipedia

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    The Progressive Party, popularly nicknamed the Bull Moose Party, was a third party in the United States formed in 1912 by former president Theodore Roosevelt after he lost the presidential nomination of the Republican Party to his former protégé turned rival, incumbent president William Howard Taft.

  8. Joe Manchin torches Democrats on the way out the door - AOL

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    He added that during the Army-Navy football game last weekend, he told the president-elect, “I want to help any way I can.” “I want you to succeed,” Manchin said he told Trump.

  9. Presidency of Woodrow Wilson - Wikipedia

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    Wilson became a prominent 1912 presidential contender immediately upon his election as Governor of New Jersey in 1910. Already famous as president of Princeton and as a leading intellectual, his political stature soared after he defeated the state's political bosses and emerged as a national leader of the Progressive movement to reform America. [3]