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Some are largely symbolic and respectful of the status quo regardless of outcome, others representing gravitic shifts in the paradigm. But none have explicitly defied the laws of nature by pitting candidates operating in much different times and circumstances against one another to see how they...

So then, lets go! "Bush has won the election!" -CNN Reporter In the Presidential Election of 2000, many things occured, of which saw the election of President Al Gore. In an election that saw a turn out of a third party, Gore crawled his way to victory in an election that looked as if he would...

Having crushed Jimmy Carter four years earlier and ushered in a new, rightwards-headed paradigm in the process, Ronald Reagan enjoyed a blowout reelection in 1984. With a recovering economy, a revived sense of optimism, and Walter Mondale as the Democratic nominee, the elderly president swept to...

With Watergate costing President Nixon his once-massive approval ratings and bruising the GOP in the midterms, 1976 looked like it'd be a comeback election for the Democrats. Giving the nod to dark-horse candidate Jimmy Carter, they won back the White House in November, racking up 297 electoral...

Winning in a landslide of 486 electoral votes and 61.1% of the popular vote, the 1964 victory achieved by President Lyndon B. Johnson currently holds the record for the largest share of the popular vote won by a modern president--a tally that narrowly exceeded FDR's 1936 victory over Alf Landon...