 Complete the following phrase:  In the 1892 presidential election, the Populist ticket of James B. Weaver and James G. Field won 8.5 of the popular vote and carried four Western states, becoming the first third party since the end of the American Civil War to win electoral votes. Despite the support of labor organizers like Eugene V. Debs and Terence V. Powderly, the party largely failed to win the vote of urban laborers in the Midwest and the Northeast. Over the next four years, the party continued to run state and federal candidates, building up powerful organizations in several Southern and Western states. Before the 1896 presidential election, the Populists became increasingly polarized between fusionists, who wanted to nominate a joint presidential ticket with the Democratic Party, and mid-roaders. like Mary Elizabeth Lease, who favored the continuation of the Populists as an independent third party. After the 