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Why did late-nineteenth-century presidential elections tend to focus on the personalities of the candidates rather than on real issues?
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∙ 7y ago
the federal government was not involved in nearly as many policy matters as it is today. Most policy was set at the State level, or was left to the private sector.
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∙ 13y ago
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Republicans
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one
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