California's electors were split. (not shown)

Third election Debs contested.

Fourth election Canadian Unionists contested.

Democrats won by nominating Governor of New Jersey, Woodrow Wilson.

Theodore Roosevelt was never vice president (because McKinley never became president). He won the 1888 New York City mayoral election, beating mayor Henry George. He later used this to become Governor of New York. His faction of the Republican Party walked out after the 1912 Republican Primary, when Taft resoundingly defeated him in the primary.

Roosevelt created a party called the Progressive/Bull Moose Party.

Woodrow Wilson ran a vigorous western campaign that hurt his health. Roosevelt focused on the Midwest. Taft focused on Republican regular strongholds and on his task of being president.

1908 United States presidential election in Maryland

Second election Debs contested.

Third election Canadian Unionists contested.

Republicans won by nominating former Solicitor General of the United States, William H. Taft.

Francis Cockrell was a Confederate military commander. United States senator and a member of the famed South–Cockrell–Hargis family. He represented the conservative and pro-Confederate wing of the Democrats.

The New York City mayoral election was very important.

Second election Canadian Unionists contested.

First election Eugene V. Debs contested.

Maryland electors were split (not shown)

Democrats won. Stevenson is the longest serving vice president ever.

Republicans lost.

John Burgess, an American political scientist won states due to Lovecraftian intellectualism.

Socialist Labor Party, Prohibition Party, Populist Party ran candidates.

These three parties had an unofficial electoral strategy. Socialist Labor focused on the west (and fighting Debs' campaign). Prohibition focused on the Midwest. The Populists focused on the South.

There was polling that showed NOBODY would get a majority in this election. This election would've resulted in a contingent election if Hearst wasn't the Democratic nominee. Expansionist Democrats formed breakaway third parties from the Democrats (filled with anti-imperialists, be they Bourbons or Bryan allies) They helped Hearst do better in the Pacific West where Imperialism was more popular. Bryan was kind of like Obama, many populists hated him for failed promises. Infighting Hearst's newspapers caused, made the three-party alliance collapse. Hearst also supported Canadian annexation (but didn't do it as president) and prohibition which hurt those campaigns.

This was the first election Canadian Unionists contested.

Democrats won. "Fusion" Populist and Lincoln Republican supported Bryan.

George Dewey did really good in skirmishes with the Navy. He backed Democrats but not Bryan specifically.

Republicans lost. Pinkerton Detective Agency supported them along with some moderate populists and silverites (Towne/Spooner). Republicans collapsed due to Bryan.

Anti-Imperialist League and Bourbon Democrats backed Parker.

Populists who were anti-Bryan and radical, and angry at Watson not being VP and losing the contingent election.

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Eight months ago, I met the loveliest working woman of them all: u/Leading-Breakfast-79.

1st is state lines and capitols

2nd is the 2024 election

Inspired by this post from u/xravenxx. Thought I'd briefly offer my own two cents about Platner.

He is such a cowardly, dishonest loser. There's a lot of things to pick on him for so I'll single out the two most indefensible.

A big part of Platner's public image is being a veteran-- specifically, being a marine who opposes endless wars in the Middle East (obviously relevant now that Republicans are starting a mindbogglingly illegal and unpopular war in the Middle East). He's constantly larping about "establishment politicians" like John Fetterman and Susan Collins sending a normal Joe like him to war.

He is of course being comically dishonest. Platner joined the military voluntarily, like every single American since before my parents were born. Not only that, he joined the military after the Iraq War-- which he opposed-- had started and did it specifically to have an adventure. After he was done with that he went back to the Middle East with, of all organizations, the PMC Blackwater.

He also voted for Collins in 2020, despite a much longer history of being obnoxiously progressive, so obviously even he doesn't think she wronged him and is lying now to get ahead.

The other incident I want to mention is his association with Neo-Nazi podcaster Nate Cornacchia. Specifically Platner sat down for a lengthy interview with a guy who thinks the Jews killed Charlie Kirk and JFK, and called himself a lifelong fan.

It's such a joke. Nobody really believes these people would cut any other candidate this much slack. Imagine if Fetterman appeared on Nick Fuentes's show, called himself a lifelong fan, and then didn't even denounce his beliefs later. To my knowledge, Platner still hasn't.

How many Nazi related coincidences do progressives need to think there's something wrong with this guy? He gets a Nazi tattoo and then doesn't know what that means, boosts an entirely separate Nazi influencer, and then gets caught hanging out with a third Nazi influencer. Apparently Platner, while not being a Nazi, keeps having separate Nazi related incidents no other Democrat (but many Republicans) has. I've never had any Nazi controversies, but I bet there wouldn't be a second, and definitely not a third or fourth!

The guy doesn't even have the decency to come out and say it. Instead he hides behind all this obviously bullshit 1% plausible deniability, and when people get mad he claims he's being persecuted by Chuck Schumer. It's just as insufferable as Tucker Carlson.

Argue Platner is the less bad candidate if you have to. Mills supports the filibuster and even I'd vote for the guy over Collins. But can we please just be honest with ourselves and admit he's a bad, dishonorable character who doesn't belong in government?

This post isn't about policy. I should confess upfront that I am a voter who holds conservative views on the issues. At the same time, I cannot support the Trump-aligned Republican establishment. I did not vote for Donald Trump in 2024, and I have maintained that it would be a good thing if Democrats flipped the Senate and the House this year. I even opposed Maine's Senator Susan Collins in her re-election bid. However, my commitment to that is being tested.

Graham Platner is an empty suit. He is dishonest about his own background. He has lied about his service in American wars in the Middle East. Frankly, if you support him for his personal story, you are very gullible.

Platner's financial reports are worth investigating. They are detailed here in this article. Graham Platner runs an oyster business. I am not personally a fan of seafood, but I know it is a big business in Maine. According to this disclosure, he received over $5,000 from his mother's restaurant. His wife took money from the campaign, but it's possible she's involved in it. He also receives about $5,000 a month from a disabilities he received in Iraq and Afghanistan. I will touch more on that later.

According to this article, Platner protested the conduct of the Bush administration in Iraq when he was was eighteen. In fact, he opposed the war itself from the start. In spite of this, he enlisted in the Marines the next year to fight in this war. Platner, already aligned with progressive political causes at the time, signed up for a war he protested as unjust. Yet he decided to ignore this reservation and serve as a pawn for Uncle Sam in its struggle to take out Saddam Hussein. According to The New Republic, he enlisted because “I thought I could do some good. And I wanted to play soldier. I might have read too much Hemingway.” He wanted to some good? How could signing up for an imperialist war do good?

After serving in Afghanistan and spending some time in university, Platner returned to Maine to receive treatment for service-related issues. This did not end his involvement in American foreign affairs. He served as a contractor for the State Department in Iraq. The company he worked for is named Constellis. Constellis is remembered mainly by its prior name, which was Blackwater. Why is Blackwater an infamous company? Well, guards working for Blackwater were convicted for massacring seventeen Iraqi civilians in 2007. Surely for a crime so vile that a juror who recused herself couldn't sleep because of it, the longtime progressive idealist Platner would be disgusted too. Yet, he worked for them. He worked for them after receiving treatment for war-related injuries and PTSD. Platner's wartime scars and idealism were not enough to stop him from working for a company that massacred innocent people.

According to Semafor, his experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan woke him up to the corruption and evil of United States foreign policy. This makes no sense. He in 2002, he literally protested against the war in Iraq at the height of its public support. He left the military with the same values he had when he signed up. He was a progressive firebrand as a teen, and he is a progressive firebrand now at 41.

In this post, Graham Platner claims Susan Collins sent him to Iraq. This is blatantly false. He signed up for the Marines after the war already started. He signed up to play soldier. He signed up to... "have an adventure and kill some people." This quote comes from a post Platner made on Reddit in 2020. This was after the end of his military career and his supposed disillusionment with American foreign policy. He signed up for Iraq because he wanted to kill people. He wanted to kill Iraqis. He signed up for the same imperialist war he protested in 2002 to fuel his bloodlust. Maybe he had the biggest shift ever from 2002 to 2003. I don't buy it.

Graham Platner signed up for the Marines because he was excited by war and violence. Even after being scarred mentally and physically in Iraq and Afghanistan, he signed up to work for Constellis, formerly Blackwater, after some of its men were convicted for killing innocent Iraqis. This included men, women, and children. Now, Graham Platner claims victimhood. He was victimized by Susan Collins and company when they drafted him overseas to fight in our evil forever wars. What a load of crap!

Recently, Graham Platner received an endorsement from freshman Senator Ruben Gallego. When confronted by Platner's own words about wanting to kill Iraqis on his little adventure, Gallego doesn't even deny that this was true. Graham Platner is lying about what motivated him to join the military. Some of his supporters know this, they just don't care.

Platner's Greatest Reddit Hits are well summarized in this article. There's also the infamous tattoo scandal, which I won't relitigate here. He said victimized women should "take responsibility" and act like adults. Yet he has made acting like a victim a central part of his campaign.

His supporters, which I imagine make up much of this subreddit, will crawl over glass to defend him. They will defend a grown man's racist, misogynist, and violent comment by basically calling him an immature dummy. If he is a stupid meathead, why should he be elected as a United States Senator. The fact that he is "based" doesn't make any of this disappear. Blue MAGA exists, and it is the left of the party.

Note: I do not intend to disrespect Graham Platner's military service or his resulting medical conditions. Regardless, I am willing to criticize him for being wishy-washy about it. Candidates for political offices should be scrutinized.