- United States presidential election, 1800
Electoral college delivers a tie, House of Representatives elects Jefferson on 36th ballot.
- United States presidential election, 1820
Monroe gets 228 electoral college votes of 229 cast.
- United States presidential election, 1824
John Quincy Adams chosen by House of Representatives despite being poor second in popular vote.
- United States presidential election, 1836
VP candidate on winning ticket fails to win electoral college (but elected by Senate).
- United States presidential election, 1856
Election of only known gay president (his long-term partner had been elected Veep in 1852).
- United States presidential election, 1876
Bitter disputes over votes from Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina; finally popular vote loser declared winner of electoral college.
- United States presidential election, 1888
Incumbent president wins popular vote but loses electoral college.
- 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.
- United States presidential election, 1940
Incumbent runs for third term, and wins.
- United States presidential election, 1944 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Incumbent runs for fourth term, and wins.
- United States presidential election, 1952
The last time (before 2008) that neither incumbent Pres nor Veep was on the ticket.
- United States presidential election, 1968
Last time a third-party candidate made a serious impact (George Wallace winning 5 deep south states).
- United States presidential election, 2000
Loser of popular vote wins electoral college
- Election Forecasts - FiveThirtyEight Blog - NYTimes.com
The best site on the polling for this year's election.
Links I found interesting for 06-11-2012
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