The request offered a scathing review of Kennedy's proposal that clerks can simply cover up his name with a sticker on every ...

Our author visits the political pros in four battleground states and is reminded that the swing vote in the November election is not conservati ...

From Franklin D. Roosevelt’s dominance during the Great Depression to the more recent Ronald Reagan’s 1980 election, ...

A combination of civil rights legislative wins, commitments to diverse representation, and opposition to racism led many ...

In a classic campaign blunder, Republican Gerald Ford said that “there is no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe,” enraging Poles and other Eastern Europeans and sending them into winner Democratic ...

Since 1796, the United States has had competitive presidential elections. While some have resulted in relatively little ...

The League of Women voters in 1952 hosted the first televised presidential debate in American history for a nationwide ...

Vice President Richard M. Nixon and U.S. Sen. John F. Kennedy​ met for the first ever televised presidential debate.

1960 Four debates Richard Nixon, who’d been ill, looked terrible in the first one. John F. Kennedy, who looked great, was ...

When turning family names into first names became customary around 1800, Protestants did this more than Catholics, who were ...

The 1960 presidential debates featured John Kennedy and Richard Nixon in the first national contest to be televised ...

A look back at other sitting vice presidents who were running for the top job and debating on TV against the nominee of the ...