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United States presidential election, 1800 Electoral college delivers a tie, House of Representatives elects Jefferson on 36th ballot. (tags: uspolitics )
United States presidential election, 1820 Monroe gets 228 electoral college votes of 229 cast. (tags: uspolitics )
United States presidential election, 1824 John Quincy Adams chosen by House of Representatives despite being poor second in popular vote. (tags: uspolitics )
United States presidential election, 1836 VP candidate on winning ticket fails to win electoral college (but elected by Senate). (tags: uspolitics )
United States presidential election, 1856 Election of only known gay president (his long-term partner had been elected Veep in 1852). (tags: uspolitics )
United States presidential election, 1876 Bitter disputes over votes from Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina; finally popular vote loser declared winner of electoral college. (tags: uspolitics )
United States presidential election, 1888 Incumbent president wins popular vote but loses electoral college. (tags: uspolitics )
United States presidential election, 1912 Incumbent runs for reelection and comes third, which is tricky in a two-party system. Also incumbent Veep dies the week before the vote. (tags: uspolitics )
United States presidential election, 1940 Incumbent runs for third term, and wins. (tags: uspolitics )
United States presidential election, 1944 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Incumbent runs for fourth term, and wins. (tags: uspolitics )
United States presidential election, 1952 The last time (before 2008) that neither incumbent Pres nor Veep was on the ticket. (tags: uspolitics )
United States presidential election, 1968 Last time a third-party candidate made a serious impact (George Wallace winning 5 deep south states). (tags: uspolitics )
United States presidential election, 2000 Loser of popular vote wins electoral college (tags: uspolitics )
Election Forecasts – FiveThirtyEight Blog – NYTimes.com The best site on the polling for this year’s election. (tags: uspolitics )
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I see Pride and Prejudice is neck and neck with Stig of the Dump right now!