| Year |
Democrat |
Bacon Number |
Republican |
Bacon Number |
|
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William Jennings Bryan |
2 |
William McKinley |
4
|
|
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John McAuley Palmer |
-
|
William McKinley |
4
|
| 1900 |
William Jennings Bryan |
2
|
William McKinley |
4
|
| 1904 |
Alton B Parker |
-
|
Theodore Roosevelt |
3
|
| 1908 |
William Jennings Bryan |
2
|
William Howard Taft |
4
|
| 1912 |
Woodrow Wilson |
3
|
William Howard Taft |
4
|
| 1916 |
Woodrow Wilson |
3
|
Charles Evans Hughes |
-
|
|
|
James M Cox |
-
|
Warren G Harding |
3
|
|
|
John W Davis |
-
|
Calvin Coolidge |
3
|
|
|
Al Smith |
-
|
Herbert Hoover |
3
|
|
|
Franklin D Roosevelt |
2
|
Herbert Hoover |
3
|
|
|
Franklin D Roosevelt |
2
|
Alf Landon |
-
|
|
|
Franklin D Roosevelt |
2
|
Wendell Willkie |
3
|
|
|
Franklin D Roosevelt |
2
|
Thomas E Dewey |
3
|
|
|
Harry S Truman |
3
|
Thomas E Dewey |
3
|
|
|
Adlai E Stevenson II |
2
|
Dwight D Eisenhower |
2
|
|
|
|
2
|
Dwight D Eisenhower |
2
|
|
|
John F Kennedy |
2
|
Richard Nixon |
2
|
|
|
Lyndon B Johnson |
2
|
Barry Goldwater |
2
|
|
|
Hubert Humphrey |
2
|
Richard Nixon |
2
|
|
|
George McGovern |
2
|
Richard Nixon |
2
|
|
|
Jimmy Carter |
2
|
Gerald Ford |
|
|
|
Jimmy Carter |
2
|
Ronald Reagan |
2
|
|
|
Walter Mondale |
2 |
Ronald Reagan |
2
|
|
|
Michael Dukakis |
2
|
George H W Bush |
2
|
|
|
Bill Clinton |
2
|
George H W Bush |
2
|
|
|
Bill Clinton |
2
|
Bob Dole |
3
|
|
|
Al Gore |
2
|
George W Bush |
2
|
|
|
John Kerry |
2
|
George W Bush |
2
|
|
|
Barack Obama |
2
|
John McCain |
2
|
|
|
Barack Obama |
2
|
Mitt Romney |
3
|
| 2016 |
Hillary Clinton
"... it lies within ... | 2 |
Donald J Trump
the duty of all of us ..." | 2 |
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