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Top 10 Presidential Landslides In U.S. Election History

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  Intro: Though it may seem a bit foreign in today era of politics, there was a time when candidates running in presidential elections would win with a major victory in both the electoral and popular vote thus leading to many referring to those wins as 'landslides'. Many of the candidates involved in this victories ended up feeling a sense of great satisfaction after what appears to be a no-brainer of a victory and in this  list I will be ranking ten of the biggest wins in election history based on how dominate and terrible the candidates on both sides did based on the number for electoral votes and popular votes they ended up getting. 10. Alton B. Parker vs. Theodore Roosevelt (1904)   By the start of the 20th century, Theodore Roosevelt was in charge of the country following the...

Top 10 Third Party Presidential Candidates Who Did Surprisingly Well

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  Intro:   The Democratic and Republican Party have been the two most dominant political groups within the United States as both sides have done everything in their power to ensure that they are the only options the American people have when comes to presidential elections. However, they have been a number of third parties who've made an attempt to run as most of these candidates tend to focus on important issues ignore by the two major parties. Whilst many of these candidates don't stand much of a chance of winning the election, they do end up shocking people by winning not only some of the popular vote but also a few electoral votes as well and in this list I will be mentioning those third party candidates who did far better than most would have expected I'm excluding George Washington from this list because he ran in elections where he was the only candidate, this list will focus on those who ran against multiple challengers in a presidential election. Honorable Mentions...