1122: Electoral Precedent - Revision history

Whoop whoop pull up: /* Table of Broken Precedents */

2025-12-08T23:35:48Z

‎Table of Broken Precedents

162.158.41.95: /* Table of Broken Precedents */ With the "Bill beat Bob" example in 1996, I think referring to Kamala Harris by her first name in the table makes more sense.

2025-03-27T00:03:33Z

‎Table of Broken Precedents: With the "Bill beat Bob" example in 1996, I think referring to Kamala Harris by her first name in the table makes more sense.

172.69.194.118: /* Table of Broken Precedents */

2024-11-13T15:10:53Z

‎Table of Broken Precedents

StapleFreeBatteries at 06:48, 13 November 2024

2024-11-13T06:48:29Z

172.70.160.219: Comic predates the 2024 cycle, so of course many 2024 details are not relevent to the precedent being stated. But rephrasing Clevelend's asequential presidential precedent statement to hold true without obvious future edits needed.

2024-11-07T14:41:06Z

Comic predates the 2024 cycle, so of course many 2024 details are not relevent to the precedent being stated. But rephrasing Clevelend's asequential presidential precedent statement to hold true without obvious future edits needed.

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2024-11-07T02:25:26Z

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172.69.194.223: /* Trivia/Errors */

2024-10-30T10:09:58Z

‎Trivia/Errors

CategoryGeneral: Due to missing apostrophe?

2024-10-30T02:45:10Z

Due to missing apostrophe?

42.book.addict at 18:49, 28 February 2024

2024-02-28T18:49:05Z

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 |1944
 |No Democrat has won during wartime. ...Until FDR did.
-|The United States has engaged in many minor wars near-constantly since its formation, although it being "wartime" in the country for many of these is debatable. Martin Van Buren won during the Second Seminole War, Franklin Pierce won during the Cayuse war and Apache war, James Buchanan won during Bleeding Kansas, the Third Seminole War, the Yakima War, and the Second Opium War, Grover Cleveland won during the Garza Revolution, and Woodrow Wilson won during the Border War, the Occupation of Nicaragua, the Occupation of Haiti, and the Occupation of the Dominican Republic.
+|The United States has engaged in many minor wars near-constantly since its formation, although it being "wartime" in the country for many of these is debatable. Martin Van Buren won during the Second Seminole War, Franklin Pierce won during the Cayuse war and Apache war, James Buchanan won during Bleeding Kansas, the Third Seminole War, the Yakima War, and the Second Opium War, Grover Cleveland won during the Garza Revolution, and Woodrow Wilson won during the Border War, the Occupation of Nicaragua, the Occupation of Haiti, and the Occupation of the Dominican Republic.  FDR was, however, the first Democrat to win election to the presidency while the United States was fighting a ''declared'' war.
 |False
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 |No nominee whose first name contains a "K" has lost.
 |This apparently refers only to major party nominees, as many third party and other nominees with a first name containing "K" have lost, such as {{w|Frank T. Johns}} of the Socialist Labor Party of America. Major party nominees with a "K" have won, such as Democrats Franklin Pierce, Franklin Roosevelt, and Barack Obama. If Romney had won, it would have broken the streak with respect to major party nominees, although not the streak as stated, which had already been broken with respect to all nominees.
-The streak ended up being broken in 2024, long after the setting of this comic, when Kamala Harris lost to Donald Trump. There was no sequel comic that addressed the options for what conditions Harris/Trump would each have to avert, so we do not know whether this would have been raised as the relevent 'streak to break'.
+The streak ended up being broken in 2024, long after the setting of this comic, when Kamala Harris lost to Donald Trump. There was no sequel comic that addressed the options for what conditions Harris/Trump would each have to avert, so we do not know whether this would have been raised as the relevant 'streak to break'.
 |True (In 2012)
-...Until Harris did. (As of 2024)
+...Until Kamala did. (As of 2024)
 |-
 |Title text

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 |2012?
 |No nominee whose first name contains a "K" has lost.
-|This apparently refers only to major party nominees, as many third party and other nominees with a first name containing "K" have lost, such as {{w|Frank T. Johns}} of the Socialist Labor Party of America. Major party nominees with a "K" have won, such as Democrats Franklin Pierce, Franklin Roosevelt, and Barack Obama. If Romney had won, it would have broken the streak with respect to major party nominees, although not the streak as stated, which had already been broken with respect to all nominees. The streak ended up being broken in 2024 when Kamala Harris lost to Donald Trump.
+|This apparently refers only to major party nominees, as many third party and other nominees with a first name containing "K" have lost, such as {{w|Frank T. Johns}} of the Socialist Labor Party of America. Major party nominees with a "K" have won, such as Democrats Franklin Pierce, Franklin Roosevelt, and Barack Obama. If Romney had won, it would have broken the streak with respect to major party nominees, although not the streak as stated, which had already been broken with respect to all nominees.
-|...Until Harris did.
+The streak ended up being broken in 2024, long after the setting of this comic, when Kamala Harris lost to Donald Trump. There was no sequel comic that addressed the options for what conditions Harris/Trump would each have to avert, so we do not know whether this would have been raised as the relevent 'streak to break'.
 |-
 |Title text

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 |2012?
 |No nominee whose first name contains a "K" has lost.
-|This apparently refers only to major party nominees, as many third party and other nominees with a first name containing "K" have lost, such as {{w|Frank T. Johns}} of the Socialist Labor Party of America. Major party nominees with a "K" have won, such as Democrats Franklin Pierce, Franklin Roosevelt, and Barack Obama. If Romney had won, it would have broken the streak with respect to major party nominees, although not the streak as stated, which had already been broken with respect to all nominees.
+|This apparently refers only to major party nominees, as many third party and other nominees with a first name containing "K" have lost, such as {{w|Frank T. Johns}} of the Socialist Labor Party of America. Major party nominees with a "K" have won, such as Democrats Franklin Pierce, Franklin Roosevelt, and Barack Obama. If Romney had won, it would have broken the streak with respect to major party nominees, although not the streak as stated, which had already been broken with respect to all nominees. The streak ended up being broken in 2024 when Kamala Harris lost to Donald Trump.
-|True
+|...Until Harris did.
 |-
 |Title text

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 ==Explanation==
 During election season in U.S. presidential elections — and especially in election night coverage — it is common for the media to make comments like the ones set out in the first panel of this comic. [[Randall Munroe|Randall]] is demonstrating the problem with making such statements, many of which simply come down to coincidence.
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 |1892
 |No former president has been elected. ...Until Cleveland.
-|Cleveland was the first <s>(and thus far only)</s> president to serve 2 non-consecutive terms, winning the presidential election in 1884, losing in 1888, and winning in 1892.
+|Cleveland was the first (and, prior to 2025, only) president to serve two non-consecutive terms, winning the presidential election in 1884, losing in 1888 and winning in 1892.
 |True
 |-
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 |2012?
 |No nominee whose first name contains a "K" has lost.
-|This apparently refers only to major party nominees, as many third party and other nominees with a first name containing "K" have lost, such as {{w|Frank T. Johns}} of the Socialist Labor Party of America. Major party nominees with a "K" have won, such as Democrats Franklin Pierce, Franklin Roosevelt, and Barack Obama. If Romney had won, it would have broken the streak with respect to major party nominees, although not the streak as stated, which had already been broken with respect to all nominees. {{incomplete|Is Harris a nominee?}}
+|This apparently refers only to major party nominees, as many third party and other nominees with a first name containing "K" have lost, such as {{w|Frank T. Johns}} of the Socialist Labor Party of America. Major party nominees with a "K" have won, such as Democrats Franklin Pierce, Franklin Roosevelt, and Barack Obama. If Romney had won, it would have broken the streak with respect to major party nominees, although not the streak as stated, which had already been broken with respect to all nominees.
 |True
 |-

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 | 1788
 | No one has been elected president before. ...But Washington was.
-| Discounting the Articles of Confederation and its {{w|President of the Continental Congress|president}}, Washington is the first president of the United States{{Citation needed}}.
+| Discounting the Articles of Confederation and its {{w|President of the Continental Congress|president}}, Washington is the first president of the United States.{{Citation needed}}
 | True
 |-