American Socialist
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The Red Special - Debs and the Red Special
The socialists won more votes in 1908 when Debs ran again, and they even had success at the local level. They won mayoral races and city council seats across the country. Their ideas were slowly being adopted by mainstream politicians. Another reason for their increasing success could have been that they just knew how to throw a party.
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