As the eight year
Barnes presidency was winding down, there was still the 2016 presidential election to be played out and the two main protagonists, the
Republican presidential nominee, Vice President
Robert Creighton and the
Democratic standard bearer Senator
Howard Davenport of North Carolina were the two main actors in the rich political tapestry already being unwrapped by the ebbs and flows of the campaign. The outcome revealed the Blue-Red schism which existed in American politics, but which had been papered over by the two
Barnes landslides.
Here was the map of the 2016 presidential election, which occurred on November 8 of that year.
292 Electoral Votes for
Davenport-Meyers 246 Electoral Votes for
Creighton-Bell
