We started the morning going over our maps. Then we went into current events. Israel shot down a drone. Hugo Chavez is the leader of Venezuela. He has been a major thorn in our side for a while. He calls us imperialists. Post debate polls: It is a dead heat right now in most polls. Barack has a slight edge, but there is always a margin of error. We then went into blog discussions. The election of 1824. In 1824 John Quincy Adams lost by 44,804 votes but won because of the electoral college systems. For different people won electoral votes in the election that year. When no one has the majority of the electoral votes the election goes to the House of Representatives. John Quincy Adams got totally smoked but won the election because of the House. Again in 1876 the person who didn't win the popular vote won the election. Rutherford B. Hays won the election. Next, the election of 1888. Grover Cleveland lost by 95,713 votes but won because of the electoral college. Then in 2000 George W. Bush lost by 543, 816 votes to Al Gore.
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