{"id":1122,"date":"2016-02-23T11:56:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T10:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2016-02-23T12:02:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T11:02:08","slug":"after-just-one-primary-bernie-sanders-is-the-most-successful-socialist-politician-in-the-us-in-80-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/after-just-one-primary-bernie-sanders-is-the-most-successful-socialist-politician-in-the-us-in-80-years\/","title":{"rendered":"After just one primary, Bernie Sanders is the most successful socialist politician in the US in 80 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?attachment_id=1124\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1124\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1124\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/gene.jpg\" alt=\"gene\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?attachment_id=1126\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1126\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1126\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/norman.jpg\" alt=\"norman\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?attachment_id=1123\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1123\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1123\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/darlington.jpg\" alt=\"darlington\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?attachment_id=1125\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1125\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1125\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bernie128.png\" alt=\"bernie128\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As someone who enjoys political history and playing around with numbers, here are the vote totals for democratic socialist candidates for US president since 1900, when Eugene Debs first ran. In 1924, the Socialists did not run an independent campaign, and stopped running all together after 1956. Splinter parties, including the Communists, Socialist Labor, Socialist Workers, and the revived Socialist Party after 1980, are not counted and the numbers were always exceptionally low.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In just one primary (New Hampshire) Bernie Sanders has done better than any Socialist candidate since Norman Thomas in 1936.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Counting votes cast in Iowa and Nevada caucuses (not currently available), he&#8217;s almost certainly beaten that record.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">1900 Debs 87,945<br \/>\n1904 Debs 402,810<br \/>\n1908 Debs 420,852<br \/>\n<strong>1912 Debs 901,551 (the best socialist vote ever as a percentage &#8211; 6%)<\/strong><br \/>\n1916 Benson 590,524<br \/>\n<strong>1920 Debs 913,693 (the highest ever &#8211; running as a federal prisoner)<\/strong><br \/>\n1928 Thomas 267,478<br \/>\n<strong>1932 Thomas 884,885 (a brief Depression-era revival)<\/strong><br \/>\n1936 Thomas 187,910<br \/>\n1940 Thomas 116,599<br \/>\n1944 Thomas 79,017<br \/>\n1948 Thomas 139,569<br \/>\n1952 Hoopes 20,203<br \/>\n1956 Hoopes 2,044 (after this, the party by 1968 gives up on electoral politics)<br \/>\n<strong>2016 Sanders 151,584 (New Hampshire primary only)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As someone who enjoys political history and playing around with numbers, here are the vote totals for democratic socialist candidates for US president since 1900, when Eugene Debs first ran. In 1924, the Socialists did&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-web-exclusive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1128,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions\/1128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}