Baker's Dozen II (Part 1)

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Notable elections in US and world history

  1. 1994 South Africa general election

The first in SA where citizens of all races were allowed to vote; I remember footage of the huge lines

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Notable elections in US and world history

  1. 1994 South Africa general election
  2. 1948 US general election

“Dewey Beats Truman!”

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Notable elections in US and world history

  1. 1994 South Africa general election
  2. 1948 US general election
  3. 1986 Philippines

Cory Aquino supporters force Marcos to step down after 20 year dictatorship

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Notable elections in US and world history

  1. 1994 South Africa general election
  2. 1948 US general election
  3. 1986 Philippines
  4. 1417 election of Martin V

Pope Martin’s election by the Council of Constance finally put an end to the Western Schism and the ‘Babylonian Captivity’ of the papacy at Avignon.

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Notable elections in US and world history

  1. 1994 South Africa general election
  2. 1948 US general election
  3. 1986 Philippines
  4. 1417 election of Martin V
  5. 1824 John Quincy Adams lost the popular vote, but won because of the electoral college. (1st instance of this)
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Kinda-sorta. Jackson had a plurality of both the popular and electoral votes, but not a majority of either. Adams was a close second, with Crawford and Clay trailing(their combined vote was less than Adams 2nd place showing). The election was, per the 12th amendment, thrown to the House and Adams received the bare majority of 13 of the (then) 24 states.

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Notable elections in US and world history

  1. 1994 South Africa general election
  2. 1948 US general election
  3. 1986 Philippines
  4. 1417 election of Martin V
  5. 1824 John Quincy Adams lost the popular vote, but won because of the electoral college. (1st instance of this)
  6. 1989 Poland Parliamentary elections

A resounding victory for Solidarity and the beginning of the end of Communist rule

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Notable elections in US and world history

  1. 1994 South Africa general election
  2. 1948 US general election
  3. 1986 Philippines
  4. 1417 election of Martin V
  5. 1824 John Quincy Adams lost the popular vote, but won because of the electoral college. (1st instance of this)
  6. 1989 Poland Parliamentary elections
  7. 1864 reelection of President Lincoln during the Civil War
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Notable elections in US and world history

  1. 1994 South Africa general election
  2. 1948 US general election
  3. 1986 Philippines
  4. 1417 election of Martin V
  5. 1824 John Quincy Adams lost the popular vote, but won because of the electoral college. (1st instance of this)
  6. 1989 Poland Parliamentary elections
  7. 1864 reelection of President Lincoln during the Civil War
  8. 1912 US Presidential election, Woodrow Wilson, 3 way vote split between Taft as incumbent and Theodore Roosevelt as 3rd party candidate

Roosevelt was shot on the way to a campaign event and spoke for over an hour with a bullet in his chest.
As of 2020, the most recent presidential election in which a top two finisher was neither a Democrat nor a Republican.

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Notable elections in US and world history

  1. 1994 South Africa general election
  2. 1948 US general election
  3. 1986 Philippines
  4. 1417 election of Martin V
  5. 1824 John Quincy Adams lost the popular vote, but won because of the electoral college. (1st instance of this)
  6. 1989 Poland Parliamentary elections
  7. 1864 reelection of President Lincoln during the Civil War
  8. 1912 US Presidential election, Woodrow Wilson, 3 way vote split between Taft as incumbent and Theodore Roosevelt as 3rd party candidate
  9. 1993 Canadian federal election: the governing Progressive Conservatives went from 156 seats in Parliament (out of 295) to only just two seats. One of the worst defeats suffered by a governing party in the western world.
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Notable elections in US and world history

  1. 1994 South Africa general election
  2. 1948 US general election
  3. 1986 Philippines
  4. 1417 election of Martin V
  5. 1824 John Quincy Adams lost the popular vote, but won because of the electoral college. (1st instance of this)
  6. 1989 Poland Parliamentary elections
  7. 1864 reelection of President Lincoln during the Civil War
  8. 1912 US Presidential election, Woodrow Wilson, 3 way vote split between Taft as incumbent and Theodore Roosevelt as 3rd party candidate
  9. 1993 Canadian federal election: the governing Progressive Conservatives went from 156 seats in Parliament (out of 295) to only just two seats. One of the worst defeats suffered by a governing party in the western world.
  10. 2000 US Presidential election: The Florida recount and the “Hanging chad” kerfuffle.
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Notable elections in US and world history

  1. 1994 South Africa general election
  2. 1948 US general election
  3. 1986 Philippines
  4. 1417 election of Martin V
  5. 1824 John Quincy Adams lost the popular vote, but won because of the electoral college. (1st instance of this)
  6. 1989 Poland Parliamentary elections
  7. 1864 reelection of President Lincoln during the Civil War
  8. 1912 US Presidential election, Woodrow Wilson, 3 way vote split between Taft as incumbent and Theodore Roosevelt as 3rd party candidate
  9. 1993 Canadian federal election: the governing Progressive Conservatives went from 156 seats in Parliament (out of 295) to only just two seats. One of the worst defeats suffered by a governing party in the western world.
  10. 2000 US Presidential election: The Florida recount and the “Hanging chad” kerfuffle.
  11. 2020 Belarus Presidential election, Lukashenko claims a landslide victory with 80%. Due to widespread election fraud, many countries refused to accept the result of the election, as did the European Union
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Notable elections in US and world history

  1. 1994 South Africa general election
  2. 1948 US general election
  3. 1986 Philippines
  4. 1417 election of Martin V
  5. 1824 John Quincy Adams lost the popular vote, but won because of the electoral college. (1st instance of this)
  6. 1989 Poland Parliamentary elections
  7. 1864 reelection of President Lincoln during the Civil War
  8. 1912 US Presidential election, Woodrow Wilson, 3 way vote split between Taft as incumbent and Theodore Roosevelt as 3rd party candidate
  9. 1993 Canadian federal election: the governing Progressive Conservatives went from 156 seats in Parliament (out of 295) to only just two seats. One of the worst defeats suffered by a governing party in the western world.
  10. 2000 US Presidential election: The Florida recount and the “Hanging chad” kerfuffle.
  11. 2020 Belarus Presidential election, Lukashenko claims a landslide victory with 80%. Due to widespread election fraud, many countries refused to accept the result of the election, as did the European Union
  12. 1970 Chile. Salvador Allendei s first Latin American socialist to be freely elected. The CIA did a recount.
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Notable elections in US and world history

  1. 1994 South Africa general election
  2. 1948 US general election
  3. 1986 Philippines
  4. 1417 election of Martin V
  5. 1824 John Quincy Adams lost the popular vote, but won because of the electoral college. (1st instance of this)
  6. 1989 Poland Parliamentary elections
  7. 1864 reelection of President Lincoln during the Civil War
  8. 1912 US Presidential election, Woodrow Wilson, 3 way vote split between Taft as incumbent and Theodore Roosevelt as 3rd party candidate
  9. 1993 Canadian federal election: the governing Progressive Conservatives went from 156 seats in Parliament (out of 295) to only just two seats. One of the worst defeats suffered by a governing party in the western world.
  10. 2000 US Presidential election: The Florida recount and the “Hanging chad” kerfuffle.
  11. 2020 Belarus Presidential election, Lukashenko claims a landslide victory with 80%. Due to widespread election fraud, many countries refused to accept the result of the election, as did the European Union
  12. 1970 Chile. Salvador Allendei s first Latin American socialist to be freely elected. The CIA did a recount.
  13. 2020 U.S. election - Joe Biden, Democrat of Delaware, elected President of the United States in the midst of a worldwide pandemic.

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Things to look forward to in the Biden Administration

  1. Much, much less presidential tweeting
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Things to look forward to in the Biden Administration

  1. Much, much less presidential tweeting
  2. Bipartisanship

Hey, I can dream.

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Things to look forward to in the Biden Administration

  1. Much, much less presidential tweeting
  2. Bipartisanship
  3. Pandemic Team! Assemble!
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Things to look forward to in the Biden Administration

  1. Much, much less presidential tweeting
  2. Bipartisanship
  3. Pandemic Team! Assemble!
  4. An end to four years of world peace
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Things to look forward to in the Biden Administration

  1. Much, much less presidential tweeting
  2. Bipartisanship
  3. Pandemic Team! Assemble!
  4. An end to four years of world peace
  5. A First Lady who isn’t a whore
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Things to look forward to in the Biden Administration

  1. Much, much less presidential tweeting
  2. Bipartisanship
  3. Pandemic Team! Assemble!
  4. An end to four years of world peace
  5. A First Lady who isn’t a whore
  6. Less presidential golfing
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Things to look forward to in the Biden Administration

  1. Much, much less presidential tweeting
  2. Bipartisanship
  3. Pandemic Team! Assemble!
  4. An end to four years of world peace
  5. A First Lady who isn’t a whore
  6. Less presidential golfing
  7. A decent amount of sanity returning to the White House