Candidates failed to win a majority of electoral votes in 1800 and 1824. Sectional rancor over slavery caused states to ...

It can be argued that the first American elections were far from democratic. George Washington, a national hero, was ...

The 1960 election between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon was a pivotal moment in the intersection of media, politics and culture. It was the first election to feature televised debates, and Kennedy ...

Republicans and their allies are preparing to contest the Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election, filing lawsuits state-by-state ...

68 — was part of a plot to exploit it in the 1800 presidential election, and in 1802, he was writing a draft of a constitutional amendment to change it. In the intervening centuries, both ...

Historian Anthony Guerriero will visit “The Morning Show” on Oct. 17 to put today's highly contentious presidential election into the historical perspective of the tumultuous and extremely partisan ...

Alexander Hamilton — who wrote the ultimate defense of the Electoral College when he praised it as a perfect system in Federalist No. 68 — was part of a plot to exploit it in the 1800 presidential ...