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FUN FACTS ABOUT U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
#1: The worst campaign slogan in history belongs to Al Smith, who was against prohibition. To show his support for the creation, distribution, and sale of alcohol, he advertised: “Vote for Al Smith and he’ll make your wet dreams come true.”
#2: The only “clean” election in American history was most likely the first one in 1789, when George Washington ran unopposed. Even then, Alexander Hamilton was trying to pilfer votes away from the potential vice president, John Adams.
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#1: The worst campaign slogan in history belongs to Al Smith, who was against prohibition. To show his support for the creation, distribution, and sale of alcohol, he advertised: “Vote for Al Smith and he’ll make your wet dreams come true.”
#2: The only “clean” election in American history was most likely the first one in 1789, when George Washington ran unopposed. Even then, Alexander Hamilton was trying to pilfer votes away from the potential vice president, John Adams.
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CLASSICS IN POLITICAL HUMOR SERIES
The 1976 SNL Parody of the Ford-Carter Debate
IN THE NEWS: “ECU Joins Professional Development Program For Rural Leaders”
The initiative is led by our own Olga Smirnova, and other participants include Jason Pudlo (Political Science), Merrill Flood (Geography, Planning, and Environment), and Emily Yeager (Recreation Science).
CONSTITUTIONAL TRIVIA
The U.S. Constitution has 4,400 words. It is the oldest and shortest written Constitution of any major government in the world.
CLASSICS IN POLITICAL HUMOR, From 2017: “Denmark Second”
Holland and other European countries might think that they are the best choice for the second greatest country after the US. But we in Denmark think otherwise. Here’s why.
See: https://youtu.be/ryppmnDbqJY?feature=shared
Holland and other European countries might think that they are the best choice for the second greatest country after the US. But we in Denmark think otherwise. Here’s why.
CONSTITUTIONAL TRIVIA: THE 1st AMENDMENT WAS ORIGINALLY the 3rd
“When the Bill of Rights was drafted, James Madison proposed 19 amendments (the House sent 17 of them to the Senate, which were consolidated into the 12 amendments that went to the states). The first two, however, were not ratified immediately. The first amendment set “out a detailed formula for the number of House members, based on each decennial census,” writes Andrew Glass at Politico. “Scholars have calculated that had the amendment, which is still pending, been adopted, today’s House would have either 800 or 5000 representatives.” (It currently has 435.) The second amendment regulated Congressional compensation. That amendment was not ratified for another 203 years: Originally the second, it became the 27th amendment.”