Tidbits from Presidential Election HIstory

Tidbits of extreme interest, I say, from the history of presidential campaigns:

1. The first presidential debate between candidates in the general election was not held until 1960, when John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon squared off.

2. It once may have been considered improper for candidates to actively campaign on their own behalf. Can this be?

3. Has ever an election in the U.S. been fraught with so much fraud as to give reason to think the fraud changed the outcome? Possibly. Samuel J. Tilden's loss to Rutherford B. Hayes raises that concern. Could this happen in the U.S., of all places?

4.. We all know the Electoral College vote counts, not the popular vote. How about this, though: No national popular vote was even recorded until 1824.

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