Election College | Presidential Election History
Election College | Presidential Election History
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October Surprises | Episode #137 | Election College: United States Presidential Election History
31 minutes Posted Oct 31, 2016 at 9:22 pm.
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October Surprises have had a name since the early 1970s, but they've been around for a lot longer than that! Sometimes they're intentional on the part of the opposing party. Other times, they're just the result of bad luck. Join us as we discuss a few outstanding ones!

  • Van Buren tries to expose election fraud,
  • Garfield can't remember if he wrote a letter about imigrants,
  • FDR loses the black vote and wins it back just as fast,
  • Nixon slides one by,
  • Reagan "lucks out" on the Iran hostage crisis,
  • W gets a DUI,
  • and several others!

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