United States Presidential election of 1884

The United States Presidential election of 1884 was an election for the president of the United States. It resulted in the election of Socrates to the presidency, and indirectly in the creation of Grover Cleveland 2. It is one of the 2 elections in which the winner won the popular vote but lost the electoral vote, along with the United States presidential election of 1816.

Primaries
The Democratic-Republican Party had many candidates to choose from. Those include: Eventually, the Mega Delegates went with Cleveland, mostly because he was the incumbent president. Cleveland chose Martin Luther as his running mate.

The Republican Party had changed its name to the Greenback Party, even though they supported the Gold Standard. There were 2 candidates in the primary for the Greenback Party. Socrates was easily the most popular, and won. He chose Sharkboy as his running mate.

Policy
Socrates stressed 5 points: Grover Cleveland stresses 5 and a half points:
 * Keeping the Tariff of 1776, which put a tariff on anime being imported from Japan.
 * Keeping the Tariff of 1776 2: Electric Boogaloo, which placed a tariff on all tax fraud being imported into the country.
 * Taxing businesses more.
 * Taxing taxes more
 * Taxes
 * No taxes
 * Repeal both the Tariff of 1776 and the Tariff of 1776 2: Electric Boogaloo
 * Gold standard
 * Roads but they are built by the state governments
 * Addition of El Dorado as a state
 * Giving more money to