The Whig party won the election in 1840 because Democratic President Van Buren was blamed for the way he handled the Panic of 1837 and for his continuation of Jackson's Indian removal policy. The economy was still shaky in 1840 and VanBuren was tied to the old administration. Also he was a New Yorker and did not relate well to the frontier farmers. The Whigs portrayed him as a corrupt aristocrat.
The Whigs portrayed Harrison , who had a record as an Indian fighter and had lived on the frontier, as a new version of Andrew Jackson. (They ignored the fact that his father was an aristocrat from Virginia and had signed the Declaration of Independence)
1. Run three Whig candidates (White in Tennessee, Harrison in mid-Atlantic and west, Webster in Massachusetts, New England)
2. No candidate would receive enough electoral votes so it would be decided by the U.S. House. Whig controlled House would choose a Whig candidate
In 1836, the Whigs thought they could win the election of 1836 by submitting four different candidates. Their strategy was that the Whig candidates would beat Van Buren, and then it would be left up to the House of Representatives to decide which Whig candidate would be president. The strategy failed since Van Buren had decisive wins both by popular as well as electoral votes.
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In the 1860 presidential election, Lincoln did not win in the State of Kentucky. The winner there was John Breckenridge.
Yes, Ronald Reagan won the 1980 election.
Ralph Nader took 695,084 votes, but did not win any states.
Whigs won because van buren made up worthless currency && in result people lost their farms& Land houses and thousands of banks and Business had to foreclose
The public's dissatisfaction with the economic depression.
The democrats split over the slavery issue and ended up running two candidates. The Whigs broke apart earlier and did not run a national candidate. Many northern Whigs joined the new Republican party and their candidate, Lincoln, won enough states to win the election despite no southern support.
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Of course a person can run and win an election. Many people today are serving their city, state, and national offices.
Crawford - i think
Not true Trump will win but is their own opinion!@#$%^&*()_+
No. It was the last chance for the Confederacy to win. After that, their only hope was that Lincoln would lose the 1864 election.
San Jacinto in 1836
In the 2008 election, he did win that state; in the 2012 election, he did not.
accusing democrats of corruption
A candidate must win 270 of the 538 votes to win the election.