The election was filled with foul words for one another, and threatened the nation’s survival. Controversially disputed, the outcomes of the election were both critically beneficial and clearly unpredictable. The tense campaign called for a rematch between the two former candidates of the election of 1796. Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr were pitted against John Adams and Charles C Pinckney .…
How did the elections of 1796 and 1800 show the political divides between the Federalists and the Democratic Republicans? In 1792 John Adams became president and he was in the Federalist Party. The Federalists supported the proposed constitution. In 1800 Thomas Jefferson became president as a Democratic-Republican.…
During the election of 1800, Jefferson, as well as Aaron Burr, received 73 electoral votes. Consequently, the election ended in a tie. Usually, in the past elections, the person with the most votes became the President and the runner up became the Vice President. Since the votes were a tie, it was up to the House of Representatives to decide who would be the president. Thomas Jefferson won the higher amount of electoral votes, 36, and started his presidency.…
In 1800’s election which was also known as The Revolution of 1800, Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr both were both running for President, which eventually led up to them getting tied. Soon after, they found out they were running against John Adams and Pickney. Jefferson and Burr where Democratic-Republicans who both wanted the same thing. They came to one overall decision. It took time to come up with the decisions, but once they agreed on one it was then sent to the House of Representatives to choose who won.…
This happened because Gore used his permitted right to request manual recounts in four counties, and he turned out having more votes after they were recounted. (1)…
The republicans threw out enough ballots belonging to the democrats to make Rutherford B. Hayes to clear winner of the election of 1876. When things were being sorted, both parties accused each other of fraud. Both parties did perform some action of fraud, the Republicans threw out ballots and the democrats did not allow freedmen to vote. Then on January 1877 congress created a special electoral commission with 7 republicans and democrats to decide who got the electoral votes. Hayes won 8 to 7, they began making negotiations that if Hayes won the election, he would have all military division be removed from the south, which became a part of the compromise of…
On election day, the Democrats arrived at polls armed and ready to assault blacks who had come to place their vote. Voters rigged the ballot boxes and, as expected, the Democrats ended up winning by a large majority. The next day, Alfred Waddell created a Committee of Twenty-five and led its first meeting, during which a series of resolutions collectively known as the White Declaration of Independence were passed. These resolutions included the forced exile of Alex Manly, the closing of the Daily Record, and the expulsion of all current black officeholders, The White Declaration of Independence was presented to the Committee of Colored Citizens (a group of nine black men considered to be powerful in Wilmington) as an ultimatum, and they were given until 7:30 the following morning to deliver a response (Umfleet, 94). Due to complications with delivery, the…
According to Gary Bugh, in the 2000 election, Nader received around 90,000 votes in Florida, which resulted in George Bush winning Florida (51). Bugh also stated, that if the citizens who voted for Nader would have voted for their second choice, which would have been Al Gore, that Gore would have won Florida (51). The same thing happened in the state of New Hampshire that year. According to Robert Dudley, who has a Ph.D. in Political Science, and Eric Shiraev, who has a Ph.D. in Political Psychology, Bush had beaten Gore by only around 7,000 votes (141). Later on Dudley and Shiraev said that according to the polls 8,000 of the 22,000 who voted for Nader would have voted Gore before Bush (141).…
Each state was left to decide how to choose its electors. Their options included popular election or appointment by the state legislature. There are no recorded popular vote totals for the first few presidential elections because all the state legislatures appointed their electors without the direct input of the public. They declared that the candidate with the majority of electoral votes became the president and the one who came in second would be the vice president. Everybody got something: large states got electoral votes based on their population and small states got an assurance of at least three electoral votes and a contingency procedure based on a one-state-one vote principal.…
The dispute between presidential candidates George W. Bush and Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election made the American population aware of the legitimacy of elections. Additionally, this event illustrated how deeply divided the nation truly is. The debate focused on the state of Florida where there was conflict regarding Bush’s 2,909,135 votes and Al Gore’s 2,907,351 votes [1]. The difference is a staggering 1,784 or about .03% [1]. Clay Roberts explains that, “Any difference of less than .5 of 1% triggers a mandatory machine recount” [1].…
The 1992 democratic platform reflected efforts of Democrats to transform the old fashioned liberalism. The convention nominated Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas for President and Senator Al Gore of Tennessee for Vice President. Clinton received bounced in the poll due to the successful convention. During the convention season, Ross Perot left the race after his withdrawn, Democrat and Republican tried to persuade the Perot’s…
In the 2000 presidential election between George Bush and Al Gore, Gore won the popular vote but lost the electoral college; this had only happened four times in history. This brought out a lot of controversy between people who didn’t understand how the electoral college worked. The electoral college is made up of representatives of each state, who vote for the president and vice president. Each representative is voted for by their individual state voters, whom they will represent. Currently, there are 538 total electors, 271 votes needed to win the electoral college.…
Although the Electoral College has been around for a long time, there are people who disagree with the process. However, the Electoral College has evolved in few ways. For example, choosing electors has varied. For the first presidential elections, there were no records of popular vote, because the State legislatures would make this decision without the citizens’ feedback. This changed in 1832, where electors, excluding those “from South Carolina were chosen by…” the citizen’s popular vote ("The Electoral College." 6).…
Many have concluded that the Electoral College should be taken away completely or just in some states. There have been cases where Electoral College has actually been bad for us, but there has also been equal amount of times were it worked in are favor. There have been a few cases where they try to abolish the Electoral College and even just remove it state wide. For example, in 2004 Colorado almost passed a bill that uses popular vote instead of the electoral votes. Another, case was in 2000 when an elector voted against the popular vote which hasn’t happen in over 100 years.…
According to a source 1876 and 1888, presidential elections, 1789-2000; CQ Press,2002;2000, “Historical Election Results” U.S. Electoral…