Great Campaign Moments
A lot of them are just background noise, but the great ones pack a powerful punch.
Washington and Lee students have an uncanny knack for picking presidential nominees.
Congress decided the winner in the presidential election of 1824.
The presidential election of 1876 required the country to rely on an untested method.
Texas Sen. Lloyd Bentsen delivered one of the most devastating slights ever.
Remarks set the Illinoisan on a winning track in 1860
From platforms to pennants to booze, the multifaceted legacy of the election of 1840.
Setting America's two political parties on the path they continue to follow today.
Mark Twain and Henry James both used it, but it was FDR who etched it into the history books.
