beatmastermatt

Another great question, and thanks for your support! I think that most presidential elections in American history were considered "high stakes" elections. The media and the masses all commonly hyped their election as "the most important election of our time." Shoot, even in 2012 a great number of tastemakers and citizens were arguing that. Based on what I have learned doing this, I would say we shouldn't be too worried regardless of who gets elected tomorrow. Fearmongering has always been there, but our Constitution and system of checks and balances has usually saved the day. Except in 1860, and tensions are certainly not that high today.

That's actually a really good idea. I originally had planned for December some time, but I might change my mind now.

157. Faithless electors have never influenced the outcome. My favorite story is the fact that the Libertarian Party got electoral votes in 1972. So technically, that was the first time a female candidate got electoral votes.

My two favorite Presidents are George Washington, probably the greatest leader in American history, and Grover Cleveland, the President who probably had more integrity than any other President in American history. Gotta love superlatives!

I think that's mostly true, but Truman was a big fan of Adlai Stevenson. In fact, he talked Stevenson into running in 1952. I do think that Obama is very afraid of Trump getting elected, so is more motivated to campaign out of fear.