19 Campaign Posters That Show Just How Much America Has Changed

Reading the writing on the wall since 1776!

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Gabriel H. Sanchez
by Gabriel H. Sanchez

BuzzFeed News Photo Essay Editor

Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln and running mate Hannibal Hamlin, 1860.

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Republican candidate James A. Garfield and running mate Chester A. Arthur, 1880.

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Republican candidate William McKinley and running mate Theodore Roosevelt, 1900.

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Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland and running mate Thomas A. Hendricks, 1884.

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Republican candidate Theodore Roosevelt and running mate Charles W. Fairbanks, 1904.

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Republican candidate Calvin Coolidge and running mate Charles Dawes, 1924.

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Democratic candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944.

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Republican candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956.

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Democratic candidate John F. Kennedy, 1960.

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Republican candidate Richard Nixon, 1960.

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Republican candidate Gerald Ford, 1976.

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Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter, 1976.

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Republican candidate Ronald Reagan, 1980.

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Republican candidate George H.W. Bush and running mate Dan Quayle, 1988.

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Democratic candidate Bill Clinton and running mate Al Gore, 1996.

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Republican candidate George W. Bush, 2000.

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Democratic candidate Barack Obama, 2008.

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Republican candidate Donald Trump, 2016.

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