Rorgg

Rorgg

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While Washington was never a member of a political party (in fact, he warned against them in his second inagural speech(I think that was the one), he was a Constitutional Federalist. Since the majority of those became the Federalist party, opponents of the Democratic Republicans (now the Democratic Party), I suppose that's the justification for making him a Republican. The funny thing is though that the thing the Constitutional Federalists (a

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To the contemporary view of what the parties now stand for, there has been considerable crossover between the Democrats and Republicans. The Democratic party was born out of the Anti-Federalist movement. The Antifederalists were generally opposed to ratification of the Constitution, as it led to a more centralized government than the Articles of Confederation, which was in effect at the time. It'

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Since it was asked... vs. Republicans: Condoleeza Rice Arnold Schwarzenegger William Howard Taft Gerald Ford Richard Nixon Ulysses S Grant Teddy Roosevelt Ronald Reagan Abraham Lincoln George Washington vs. Democrats: Wesley Clark Jimmy Carter Bill Richardson Dick Gephart Al Gore Bill Clinton Lyndon Johnson Woodrow Wilson Franklin D. Roosevelt Thomas Jeffe

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Fun game, I really enjoyed it, and it's easy to get into. I played one quickstart on the easiest setting, then went after the campaign as Bill Clinton. I had relatively easy wins for the first few, then squeaked past Grant by losing the popular but winning the electoral vote. Teddy Roosevelt (who, btw, is listed as "Terry" on the campaign win screen) gave me fits until I hit on the idea of setting up multiple TV ads with a webmaster. Think it took

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