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Conventional wisdom says the candidate with the most votes is elected President. American politics disagrees. It is indirect elections via the Electoral College.

Having secured their political base during the Democratic and Republican Conventions, presidential candidates will now focus on several powerful battleground states.

American Presidential elections generally produce a clear preference among candidates. But the winners of close races have produced history-altering results.

Though Rutherford B. Hayes trailed in both popular and electoral votes, a congressional compromise named him President on one of the most controversial elections in Ameri

Many factors enabled a fledgling Republican Party to capture the White House in 1860 but a chief reason may have been the division of the Democrats into three parties.

Congressional compromise awarded disputed electoral votes from three Southern states to Rutherford B. Hayes and ended Reconstruction in the South.

The present-day US electoral system dates back 200 years. The Electoral College and the Popular Vote work together to determine the President of the United States.

Miscalculating the mood of the American voter, Henry Clay was his own worst enemy when it came to running a successful presidential campaign.

If America played fantasy elections like it plays mock football, the Illinois Senator and Alaska governor may have been the best candidates to have for 2008.

President Hayes won one of the most fiercely contested elections in American history. Hayes brought dignity, honesty and moderate reform to the White House.

Grover Cleveland's first term as President of the United States saw him attempting to reform the Federal Government, though he did little legistlating.

When America elected Barack Obama, its first black president, emotion was rampant. Not because of political ideology but for the realization that the nation changed.

The Founding Fathers had three fundamental problems with selecting the President of the United States. Their solution created the Electoral College amid huge concerns.

Presidential election polls that closed in the Granite State communities of Dixville Notch and Hart's Location minutes after midnight, gave a solid win to Democrat Obama.

Benjamin Harrison's four years in the office of President has been largely forgotten in the century since. His legacy is mixed, despite a strong legislative agenda.

While national presidential polls showed Barack Obama to be only a few percentage points ahead of John McCain, electoral map calculators gave Obama a much stronger lead.

Benjamin Harrison, grandson of President William Henry Harrison, climbed quickly up the political ladder, from local politics to national recognition.

Winning more electoral votes than any President since Bill Clinton's 1996 trouncing of Bob Dole, Barack Obama's win initiated a philosophical change in America.

An "accidental" President who antagonized the left and right wings of his party, Truman was given no chance of reelection. His upset win confounded the experts.

Before ratification of the 22nd Amendment, only three presidents sought a third term in office, upsetting tradition and precedent that began with the Founding Fathers.

Be the hostess with the mostest and celebrate with festive and inspired ideas for your Independence Day, Memorial Day and Election Day gatherings.

Andrew Jackson was surely one of the most controversial of all of America's first Presidents. From a war hero to a frontier lawyer to President, his story is fascinating

The 1848 national election may have laid the groundwork for a decade of growing division between the North and the South through the issue of the extension of slavery.

Nativism, strongest in the American Northeast, affected political realignments during the early and mid 1850s through the American or "Know Nothing" Party.

There has been much debate over the legacy of President Grant over the years, with some naming him among the worst, while others finding things to admire.

The Populist, Progressive, and Socialist Movements grew in strength during the period from about 1880 to 1916, but were co-opted by the adoption of many of the reforms.

Hoping to throw the election of 1948 into the House of Representatives, Southern "Dixiecrats" mobilized to stop federal anti-segregationist legislation.

Barack Obama was elected to be the next President of the United States on November 4 2008. But who is Barack Obama?

James Madison retires to Virginia but returns to politics when John Adams and his Federalists threaten the freedoms that were guaranteed in the Bill of Rights.

Barack Obama quotes as well as quick facts about America's new president.

U.S. Federal Census Records can help genealogists identify ancestors who fought on either side of the Civil War conflict.

In the second half of 1968, the country explodes into violence following the deaths of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.

John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States and he was the first Catholic president. His first term was suddenly cut short by his assassination in 1963.

On November 4, 2008, history was made and a vision was embraced when the U.S. Presidential Election was won by its first African American - Senator Barack Obama.

Chicago reputation for corruption began in 1871 and continues today. No longer called a "machine" it has been resurrected and flourishes under a new mantle

Despite decades of low voter turnout and apathy, many far-reaching changes in American history hinged on who was elected President.

A contested election between rival parties that nearly ignited a war and proved whether the electoral process could allow for the peaceful transfer of power.

The method for selecting US Presidents is difficult to comprehend. Primaries, caucuses, delegates, conventions and the daunting Electoral College are intimidating events.

John Quincy Adams, elected President in 1824 as a Democratic-Republican, was a member, during his long political career, of no less than five political parties.

Political corruption has been a problem since the first Europeans settled in America. From officials to politicians, laws are circumvented to obtain riches and/or power.

Presidential election polling in the 1900s based upon unscientific polling procedures. How the procedures changed dramatically after the election of 1936.

Honest Grover Cleveland won the popular vote in three consecutive presidential elections, a feat shared by Andrew Jackson and exceeded only by Franklin Roosevelt

Straw votes in Colonial America and the earliest poll predicting the 1824 presidential election. Also, accurate predictions of presidential elections in the early 1900s.

In a hotly contested, close presidential election, James Blaine lost the crucial swing state of New York due to three words used days before voters went to the polls.

A key turning point of presidential election polling methods occurred during the 1936 election . A scientific approach to presidential politic polling was born.

In the late nineteenth century, politics increasingly centered around the fiery debate between a currency set on silver and gold (bimetalism) and one set on gold only.

Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report (Comedy Central, 11:30pm) teams up with Spidey in Amazing Spider-Man #573 as a presidential candidate.

Few presidential elections have been quite as close, as dramatic or as controversial as the 1960 election between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy turned out to be.

More than virtually any other previous President, Andrew Jackson was elected on the popular vote and as a result saw himself as the representative of the people.

The first president to also be the son of a president, John Quincy Adams paralleled the temperament, career and opinions of his illustrious father.