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Do we have a chart for the Democratic Party?

Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2024 1:13 pm
by fivesight
If not, will the cardinal ingresses do for my purposes?
The reason I'm asking is that I found a report that Joe Biden may very well decide not to run, and there is a good chance that the Democrats may be forced into a "Brokered Convention" in which someone else (maybe Gavin Newsom, the Governor of California, for whom I have a good chart, and charts for Biden and Harris) could be the frontrunner keeping Harris as the running mate. This would be a very rare event in the party's history, so I want to make sure I have the right data.

Re: Do we have a chart for the Democratic Party?

Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2024 2:08 pm
by Jim Eshelman
There is a traditional chart for January 8, 1828, 6:30 PM LMT, Concord, NH for the scheduled start of Andrew Jackson's first campaign speech, in which he laid out his political philosophy. Historically, that's often considered the establishment of the Democratic Party.

BTW, the usual chart for the Republican Party is July 6, 154, 1:06 PM LMT, Jackson, MS. Both of these are from astrologer and historian Gary Lorentzen.

I've never reached a conclusion that these charts are worth anything, but there you go.

Re: Do we have a chart for the Democratic Party?

Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2024 3:00 pm
by fivesight
Thanks Jim, that helps a lot - every little piece of evidence can help avoid a wrong conclusion, but too much can make it easy to lose the thread.