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1 Vandalism  
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2 Free Soilers and Democrats?  
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3 Minor issue  
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4 New Mexico  
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5 Switching the lead images with photographs  
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Vandalism

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The name of the president has been changed from Zachary Taylor to Dan Rathers. Was not sure about what to do, so I hope I'm alerting the creator of this topic. --Lrukieh 10:41, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed, see Wikipedia:Revert--The very model of a minor general 13:06, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Free Soilers and Democrats?

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The article contained a line speculating that Cass might have won the election if Martin Van Buren's third-party candidacy hadn't split the vote in New York. This seems unlikely to me since the Democratic Party in those days was the more pro-slavery party, so Van Buren's anti-slavery votes probably would have broke more for the more anti-slavery Whigs, and in any case Taylor got 48% of the vote in New York and would have only needed a small piece of Van Buren's 26% there, while Cass, who only got 25% there, would have needed almost all of Van Buren's votes. Thus I deleted that line from the article. Vidor (talk) 02:44, 8 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Minor issue

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"Democrats countered by nominating Lewis Cass," According to the date on the party platforms on http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/platforms.php Democrats would have chosen there canidate first. So it wouldn't be a "counter"? (Revo (talk) 05:56, 27 September 2008 (UTC))[reply]

New Mexico

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New Mexico was never actually under Texas control, even though it had a nearly equal population in 1846. If Texas had no organization or votes in New Mexico or anywhere near it, the whole area to the Rio Grande should not be shaded as Texas. El Paso was only joined to Texas in 1850 by Robert Neighbors. --JWB (talk) 12:57, 26 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Switching the lead images with photographs

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Should we use photographs for the lead images? This was when photography really started to take off, so I think we should use images that reflect that. Here are my proposals. Thoughts? The Image Editor (talk) 21:13, 29 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Zachary Taylor
Lewis Cass
Martin Van Buren

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