Nothing sacred: Florida and the America’s two presidencies

Abstract

The George W. Bush ascent to the presidency lacks a true precedent in the United States History. It is true that in three previous elections (1824, 1876 and 1888) it happened that a candidate gained the popular vote and the other the electoral vote. But that was not the distinctive characteristic of that election. The plus insigne of the three previous debatable elections was the 1876 one, during which the professional politicians of both partys tried to carry out an agreement after borders that the back gave to the popular vote. But only one of previous presidential elections characterized for the manipulation and the intimidation, for interventions openly slanted from civil employees of the State and the Court, for the deprivation of the African-Americans' rights, and for the energetic message of which after the election there would not be peace if it gained the mistaken party. That was the 1860 election and it precipitated the Civil War.