During a debate in this election year, the losing candidate mentioned the "Dingell-Norwood Bill" while seeming to loom over his opponent's personal space.

Shortly before this election, a primary-loser released his memoir Faith of My Fathers about his service as a naval aviator in the Vietnam War.

In this election year, a primary campaign suffered in South Carolina due to flyers suggesting he fathered an illegitimate black child.

At the Democratic convention during this election year, the nominee passionately kissed his wife, possibly to indicate the strength of his marriage.

Al Franken wrote a speculative account of this election year titled Why Not Me?.

Which U.S. presidential election year’s results were disputed in the court case Bush v.

Tim Russert’s whiteboard, which portrayed possible results of this election, is currently housed in the Smithsonian. :Name this election, where George W. Bush became president after narrowly winning Florida by a few hundred votes.

Recounts and poor ballot design in another South Florida county, Miami-Dade, were at the center of a weeks-long controversy in this election year that ended in a Supreme Court decision.

A candidate in this election referred to Karl Rove as his “Architect.” The Supreme Court of the US overturned the Florida Supreme Court’s ruling of a statewide recount of ballots in this election.

One candidate in this election was criticized for accepting the endorsement of Bob Jones University due to its ban on interracial dating.

One candidate in this election year avoided controversial issues through vague slogans such as "You know that your future is still ahead of you." In this election year, Fielding Wright split the southern vote with Dixiecrats who supported Strom Thurmond.

This election year marked the first time a party’s national convention was televised.

During this election year’s primaries, banning the Communist Party of the United States was the sole topic of the first presidential debate over radio.

During this election year, Arthur Vandenberg, Harold Stassen, and Robert Taft failed to stop the nomination of a Republican Governor of New York.

A left-wing candidate in this election was mocked after the “Guru letters” that he wrote to a Russian spiritualist were published.

During this election year, one candidate’s coded letters were released, revealing that he named FDR “The Flaming One.” Supreme Court Justice William Douglas refused to be a running mate in this election year.

Another candidate in this election ran on a ticket with Fielding Wright after walking out of a major party convention following Hubert Humphrey’s speech.

A candidate in this year’s election was attacked for his close association with Russian mystic Nicholas Roerich, and left his position as publisher of The New Republic to run.

Edwin Jaeckle developed a brilliant but discarded strategy for the Republican candidate in this year, who defeated Athur Vandenberg and Harold Stassen and infamously declared “you know that your future is still ahead of you” in a speech on atomic energy.

Due to the incumbent's rapidly sinking popularity, the challenger ran a low-risk campaign that used vague quotes such as "You know that your future is still ahead of you.” A challenger in this election was future Supreme Court justice Earl Warren.

One candidate in this election was opposed in North Carolina by a group called the People’s Ticket and supported in New York by a coalition called the People’s Party.

Opponents of this election’s winner would later spread claims that he pimped prostitutes to the Czar during his time as Ambassador to Russia.

While serving as chancellor of New York, Nathan Sanford ran in this presidential election year, winning 30 vice-presidential votes.

This election year included strong personal attacks against Albert Gallatin who withdrew his nomination as a result.

The presidential election of this year was satirized by the political cartoon “A Foot Race” and marked the end of the King Caucus system.

In this election year, a group of old Republicans, supported by or supported a Georgian candidate who finished in third place.

The third-place finisher in this U.S. election year suffered a stroke a year prior to it, leading to his poor performance.

William Crawford took third in this election, the only election after the Twelfth Amendment to be decided by the House of Representatives.

The Tertium Quids [[TER-shum KWIDS]] were represented by that man, William H. Crawford, in this election year.

Its fourth-place finisher, Henry Clay, was subsequently named Secretary of State.

In this year, an investigation by Clarkson Potter found evidence of bribery in the Cipher dispatches.

During this election year, the Greenback Party nominated 85-year old Peter Cooper, the founder of the Cooper Union school.

Thomas Hendricks and William Wheeler were the vice presidential candidates in this election.

James Alexander Walker ran on the American Party ticket in this election, while the Prohibition Party nominated Green Clay Smith.

In the leadup to this election, the Hamburg Massacre was committed by violent supporters of Wade Hampton’s bid for governor of South Carolina.

One section of Profiles In Courage details an incident in which the vice-presidential winner of this election told off Roscoe Conkling.

A loser in this election year was hurt by the discovery of the Cipher Dispatches, which alleged election fraud; however, his reputation was also helped by his work breaking up the Canal Ring and his opposition to Boss Tweed.

The highest voter turnout by percentage of eligible voters occurred during this election year in which the winning candidate won one more electoral vote than his opponent.

This outcome of this year’s election completed the final goal of the Redeemers faction.

Despite getting more popular votes than Rutherford B. Hayes, Tilden lost the presidential election in this year. Three states’ disputed results in this presidential election were settled by a compromise the next year.

This presidential election year featured Emil Seidel running for Vice President on a Socialist ticket.

John Schrank failed to assassinate one candidate in this election.

In addition to Emil Seidel and James Sherman, candidates in this election included the sitting Governor of Indiana, who was the winner’s running mate.

Nicholas M. Butler replaced the running mate of a losing ticket in this election after that running mate passed away.

Milwaukee mayor Emil Seidel was a vice-presidential candidate in this election, whose running-mate was a former State Senator from Indiana.

During this election year, Champ Clark was an early frontrunner at the convention until Tammany Hall announced its support for him, alienating the progressives.

One candidate in this election lost the support of progressives when he fired conservationist Gifford Pinchot as head of the Bureau of Forestry and endorsing the Payne-Aldrich tariff.

Minor third party competition came from Eugene Chafin, in his second run with the Prohibition Party, as well as the fourth and final Socialist ticket headed by Eugene Debs.

At the Democratic Party convention in this election, many Southerners supported Oscar Underwood, who was later offered a vice-presidential nomination by its winner.

A political cartoon about this election year shows a candidate dressed as a circus clown and beating a drum to invite people to vote for his party.

Included three former Republican rivals in what year’s Presidential election this Lincoln won.

A vice-presidential candidate in this election year had taken over Walter Colquitt’s vacated Senate seat and would go on to become Governor of Georgia.

The short-lived Constitutional Union party ran its first and only presidential candidate, Tennessee senator John Bell, during this election cycle.

In this election year, William Yancey, a member of the Fire-Eaters, helped split one party into geographic factions.

In this election year, losing candidates joined forces in three Mid-Atlantic states to cast “fusion” ballots.

Two minor parties in this election included the People’s Party and Liberty Party, the latter of which nominated Gerrit Smith.

Supporters of a candidate in this election marched with banners reading “mind your eye.” A Texan “People’s Party” in this election nominated Sam Houston against his will.

The illiterate cousin of a candidate in this election joined the campaign when opponents predictably alleged that letters dictated to Richard Oglesby were forged.

That party eventually chose John Bell of Tennessee as their choice for the Presidency, and Bell would carry his home state, Kentucky, and Virginia.

A candidate in this election was mocked in the cartoon "Three to One You Don't Get It" which showed him carrying pieces of wood.

The incumbent in this election lost votes within his party due to a split between him and Charles Pinckney, and a single electoral vote was cast for John Jay.

During this election, the loser was attacked in the pamphlet “The Prospect Before Us,” which led to the arrest of its author James T. Callender.

This election partly turned on a party leader writing a fifty- page letter that attempted to get Charles Cotesworth Pinckney elected President.

In the months before this year’s election, the author of The Prospect was prosecuted for attacking the incumbent President.

During this election year, a defective certificate of election from Georgia was ignored, which eliminated a mandated runoff vote.

Edward Larson wrote a history of this election year titled A Magnificent Catastrophe.

During this election, New York’s William P. Van Ness sent a secret letter to Edward Livingston, detailing an ultimately failed plan to defeat the winning candidate.

This election is often referred to as a “Revolution” due to the major political realignment that occurred. :Name this fourth ever U.S. presidential election, in which Thomas Jefferson defeated John Adams.

The losing candidate in this election was condemned for his “reign of terror” by the newspaper Aurora, and his own party sought to dump him for his running mate, Charles C. Pinckney.

Though problems with the electoral process had been exposed in the previous election, it was this election that got the Twelfth Amendment proposed and ratified.

This election year's Republican candidate was the subject of a critical essay by Richard J. Hofstadter titled "The Paranoid Style in American Politics." A candidate in this election year used the "Daisy Girl" ad to warn that his opponent would lead the U.S. into a nuclear war with the USSR.

In this election year’s primaries, a conservative politician was labeled “wife stealer” after marrying the recently divorced Happy Murphy.

The Democratic National Convention for this election saw many people honoring Schwerner, Cheney and Goodman as well as a notable speech that saw its speaker quote Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliette about cutting him out and “placing him among the stars.” The losing vice Presidential candidate was a New York native that assisted Robert Jackson in prosecuting German war criminals.

In another ad from this year, a man takes a saw to a model of the United States in reference to Miller's running mate saying that "this country would be better off if we would just saw off the Eastern seaboard." The slogan "In your heart, you know he's right" was used in this campaign.

A vice presidential nominee in this election year claimed his opponent wanted “to replace the Statue of Liberty with an iron-padlocked gate.” In this year, actor William Bogert argued that “a president ought to mean what he says” before refusing to support a candidate.

In an acceptance speech before this election, the Republican candidate declared that “extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.” The quote “we must either love each other, or we must die” ended an ad that aired before this election and that began with a girl picking petals off a flower.

One speech in this election year urged not to go “down to the ant heap of totalitarianism” and stated that there is no left or right, only “up or down.” Fact magazine revealed that 1, 189 psychiatrists believed a candidate in this election year was insane.

One of the nominating conventions for this election saw the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party attempt to claim seats, and the other convention saw competition from William Scranton and Nelson Rockefeller.

In a speech given in the year of this election, a woman recounted getting beaten in the Montgomery County jail and said “I question America.” The winning side in this election aired the “Confessions of a Republican” ad.

At the DNC before this election, Fannie Lou Hamer’s emotional testimony failed to convince party elites to seat the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.

One decisive element in this election was the campaigning of Kansas governor and Prohibition Party nominee John St. John, while the loser of this election had been previously investigated for his brokership of the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad.

In this election, Bernhard Gilliam drew the influential cartoon, “The Tattooed Man”, which portrayed the eventual loser’s scandals, such as the “Mulligan Letters.” The loser obtained his party’s nomination after William Temcumseh Sherman declined.

The first woman to practice law in front of the Supreme Court, Belva Lockwood, first ran for president in this year. A key political smear in this year centered around the taunt "Ma, Ma, Where's My Pa?"

The losing candidate was tainted by his past association with the so-called “Mulligan letters,” which suggested he sold his influence to businesses while serving in Congress.

John C. Fremont ran as a candidate for the Radical Democracy Party during this election before withdrawing.

The Radical Democratic Party arose during this election, during which the word “miscegenation” was coined in campaign literature.

Following the death of his friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Franklin Pierce declined a nomination for president during this election.

During this election, the Radical Democracy Party ran John C. Frémont on its ticket.

A hoax pamphlet published before this election in the New York World invented the word “miscegenation.” This election’s eventual winners exaggerated the threat of secret “Sons of Liberty” organizations in the Northwestern states.

The anti-war Copperheads and the War Democrats divided the Democratic party in the leadup to this election. :Name this presidential election, during which Abraham Lincoln was re-elected in a landslide victory due to recent military success in the Civil War.

The incumbent had his cabinet sign the “blind memorandum” in the event that he lost this election, during which Wendell Phillips supported a party that withdrew its candidate after the removal of postmaster general Montgomery Blair.

One candidate in this election year was replaced by Francis W. Pickens as Minister to Russia, while another later led the California Battalion and the capture of Sonoma.

The Republican convention in this year was held at the Front Street theatre, where the “Radical Democracy” party split from the Republicans.

One party in this election year transferred convalescents to Indiana, as it was one of the few states to not introduce absentee ballots that year.

A strong showing in this year’s New Hampshire Democratic primary was made by a candidate who urged followers to shave facial hair and “get clean for Gene.” This was the most recent year in which a third party candidate won a state.

A ticket in this election year contained a man who promised to "bomb them back into the Stone Age" and was the last third-party Presidential ticket to capture multiple electoral votes.

During primaries in this Presidential election year, hippies were urged to shave in the "keep clean for Gene" campaign.

During this election, Anna Chennault helped one side derail peace talks in Vietnam. :Name this election year in which backlash against the Vietnam War dissuaded President Lyndon Johnson from seeking reelection.

The third party in this election won five states despite VP candidate Curtis LeMay expressing his enthusiasm for using nuclear weapons in a certain country.

Following this election, Donald M. Fraser lent his name to a commission that outlawed proxy voting and decreased the power of state officials in primaries for one party.

After this presidential election, the losing party set up a commission to review its nomination procedures, named after Donald Fraser and a Senator from South Dakota.

During this presidential election, one candidate sent Anna Chennault to sabotage a diplomatic initiative that would have helped his opponent.

In the primaries, one candidate infamously claimed he'd been “brainwashed” into supporting a former president’s policies.

George Romney dropped from the Republican primaries of this year after claiming the military had "brainwashed" him.

To avoid a constitutional crisis, the loser of this election asked Earl Mazo to stop writing about possible voter fraud.

Arthur Schlesinger Jr. claimed that the winning candidate in this election year wanted Stuart Symington as his running mate, while Robert Caro argued that the running mate was chosen for the Texas vote.

For this election, that party nominated their second Catholic since 1928, choosing a Massachusetts senator who later died at the hands of Lee Harvey Oswald.

Harry Byrd got 14 southern faithless votes in this election year, whose winner was plagued by allegations of voter fraud in Chicago.

Eugene McCarthy made a failed speech in this election that called on listeners to “raise again the cry of the ancient prophet.” The addressee of a speech given during this election states that he never belonged to a group that “did not believe in liberty” while speaking to the Houston Ministerial Association.

This election saw the sitting president offer very tepid support of his party’s candidate in an interview with Charles Mohr and one of the Democratic nominees was the father of current California governor, Pat Brown.

In an attempt to weaken the regional stronghold of this election’s eventual winner, the losing party nominated a vice presidential candidate who hailed from the same state, Henry Cabot Lodge.

According to a 1994 paper by Jacobs and Shapiro, the winner of this election based policy positions on public opinion in an effort to “prime” voters’ views of his personal attributes.

In this election, Stewart Symington and Adlai Stevenson declined to run in the Democratic primary, which was decided after the eventual nominee’s strong showing against Hubert Humphrey.

Although their subject did not run for president in this election, it is at the center of the books Master of the Senate and The Passage of Power by Robert Caro.