eugene v. debs garnered a million votes during the 1920 election despite being in prison.
who garnered a million votes during the 1920 election despite being in prison?
eugene v. debs
socialist party candidate eugene v. debs received 913,664 popular votes (3.4 percent), despite the fact that he was in prison at the time for advocating non-compliance with the draft during world war i. this was the largest number of popular votes ever received by a socialist party candidate in the united states, although not the largest percentage of the popular vote. debs received double this percentage in the election of 1912. the 1920 election was debs's fifth and last attempt to become president.
1920 united states presidential election
there were two statewide elections held in pennsylvania in 2010. in the election for united states senate, republican nominee pat toomey garnered about 2.2 million votes (51%), defeating democrat joe sestak, who garnered about 1.9 million votes (49%). sestak had defeated incumbent senator arlen specter in the democratic primary after specter, who had been a republican since his election to the senate in 1980, switched his partisan affiliation to democratic. specter's partisan defection had briefly given democrats control of both of pennsylvania's senate seats for the first time since before the civil war. in the gubernatorial election, tom corbett garnered about 2.1 million votes (54.5%), defeating democrat dan onorato, who garnered about 1.8 million votes (45.5%).
republican state committee of pennsylvania