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Dark horse rise in deadlock marked conventions
Historical analysis compares current party deadlocks to 19th and early 20th century battles for the presidential nominations. It notes two party dynamics with Taft Eisenhower and past cases where dark horse candidates or outside choices emerged after extended roll calls, and recalls Polk Pierce Harding Garfield and others as precedents.
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New York
GOP
William Ginbs -Meddoc
Alfred
Smith
League of Nations
Ku Klux’ Klan
FEPC
Robert A.’ Taft
Dwight D. Eisenhower
James K. Polk
George Bancroft
Martin van Buren
Lewis Cass
van Buren
Stephen A. Douglas
Champ Clark
McAdoo
Franklin Pierce
New Hampshire
Cass
Douglas
Daiies Buchanan
William L. March
Fe Warren G. Harding
Leonard Wood
Frank Lawden
Hiram Johnson
Herbert Hoover
Rutherford BE. Hayes
James A. Garfield
Garfield
John Sherman
Horatio Seymour
Adlai Stevenson
Penney
Penneys