For the remainder of the month we'll resume our chronicle of the current Presidential Election contest.

It is generally agreed that Vice-Presidential debates are one of the most inconsequential aspects of a Presidential election. Even when Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Dan Quayle was on the receiving end of a humiliating put-down by ( Read more... )

As the 2004 presidential election approached, it looked as if incumbent President George W. Bush might go down to defeat. Bush had began his presidency in a shaky footing as many questioned the legitimacy of the 2000 election results after the United States Supreme Court shut down a recount of ballots in Florida and the state was awarded to Bush, ( Read more... )

Whoever the next President of the United States is, it is putting it mildly to say that he or she will not have an easy task ahead. As veteran Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward explains in his new book, simply titled War, the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and in Gaza present the next President with a pair of perplexing and frightening no-win ( Read more... )

In 1952, the popular General Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected president, defeating the professorial Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson by a margin of 442 to 89 in the electoral college. Eisenhower was a popular President in his first term, but showed some vulnerability in his re-election potential after suffering a heart attack near the end of his ( Read more... )

In 1928, President Calvin Coolidge decided not to seek re-election. Coolidge became President in August of 1923 upon the death of President Warren Harding. He completed Harding's term and was elected in his own right in 1924. He probably could have won another term, but decided that, having been President for almost 6 years, that was enough.

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Herbert Hoover died on October 20, 1964 (60 years ago today.) His presidency seems like an unfortunate valley in a life otherwise filled mostly with peaks. Histories of the era before Hoover's presidency describe him as a whiz kid, a man with the Midas touch, the energetic genius who could tackle and fix any problem. The post-presidential Hoover is ( Read more... )

Bill Clinton's campaign team had engineered an amazing victory over a once-popular incumbent in 1992, labeling the controversial former Arkansas Governor "the Comeback Kid". For the second election in a row it would be a contest between a Democrat, a Republican and a third party candidate in the form of Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot, although ( Read more... )

In 1976, voters wanted a Washington outsider after the Watergate scandal and the subsequent pardon of Richard Nixon, so they rejected Gerald Ford in favor of Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter. But after four years of Carter, things weren't going much better. In fact the economy has taken a turn for the worse, with interest rates reaching record levels ( Read more... )

Many people believe that presidential election debates and running mate selections make very little difference in the outcome of a election. The 1988 contest tends to support that theory, given that in early October one of the most memorable debate moments took place in that contest, not in the debates between the presidential candidates, but in ( Read more... )

The election of 1892 may have something in common with the election of 2024 (at least until this past July), in that a former president ran against an incumbent president. In 1888 Benjamin Harrison defeated incumbent President Grover Cleveland by a margin of 233 to 168 in the electoral college, despite the fact that Cleveland received more votes. ( Read more... )