They were, of course, but heavily-fought, hotly-contested presidential elections are nothing new. Arguably one of the worst was the Election of 1824. That one wasn’t settled until Feb. 9 ...

A political cartoon depicting a footrace for the position of president in the 1824 election Public domain via Wikimedia Commons The Era of Good Feelings came to a grinding halt with the ...

There’s a remote possibility that the US poll could end in a draw ... and 1824. In the 1800 election, Thomas Jefferson’s Democratic-Republicans defeated the incumbent Federalist President ...