• lemonmelon@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago
    1. re: “last candidate … George Washington”

    I’m not entirely sure what point you’re making, as there have been multiple other parties whose candidates were elected to the presidency, including the Federalists, the Whigs, and the Democratic-Republicans. Theodore Roosevelt received the second-most votes in the 1912 election as a third-party candidate for the Progressive (Bull Moose) party.

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      5 months ago

      I was trying to argue that candidates that aren’t from the Republican or Democratic party haven’t been elected from a long time. I looked up the last independent candidate, somehow forgetting that there were more parties. That said, the other candidates are still from more than a century ago.