Daily Quiz for January 8, 2009

James Blaine. The reference to the Democratic party as the party of “Rum, Romanism and Rebellion” played a large part in Republican candidate James Blaine’s defeat in the election of 1884. The indiscreet reference made by one of Blaine’s supporters has been credited with causing the Blaine’s loss of the crucial state of New York. Blaine lost the popular vote by less than 100,000 and lost New York by just 1,149, out of a total vote of 1,125,000 cast, to Grover Cleveland, the first Democrat since Buchanan to win a presidential election.