Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Useless Election Trivia

What U.S. presidential race featured the first public opinion poll of voter preferences?

1 comment:

Unknown said...

The 1824 contest between Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams. The survey of voters—taken in Wilmington, Delaware, for the Harrisburg Pennsylvanian—showed Jackson ahead, 335 to 169. Although Jackson won the popular vote, Adams was declared the winner after the election was thrown into the House of Representatives because no candidate had a majority of the electoral votes.