Election Trivia

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The first general election presidential debate was held in 1960 between the Democratic nominee Senator John F. Kennedy and the Republican nominee Vice President Richard M. Nixon.
The first political opinion poll was conducted in 1824 in the U.S. presidential race between Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams. The results showed Jackson ahead of Adams, but Adams went on to win the presidency.
One of the earliest political attack ads was used by Lyndon Johnson against Barry Goldwater in the 1964 U.S. presidential election. It featured an innocent young girl picking petals from a daisy and ended with a nuclear explosion.
From Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings to Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, presidential scandals are nothing new in American politics. The second president of the United States, John Adams, was caught in the first U.S. presidential scandal with the XYZ Correspondence scandal.
While it's fun to collect political memorabilia, don't expect to make a fortune on it down the line. One of the largest private collections of political memorabilia was expected to draw at least $2 million at auction but went unsold in 1991.
U.S. presidential candidate John Edwards received flack in 2007 when it was revealed he spent $400 on a haircut.
While women were guaranteed the right to vote with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920, Lydia Chapin Taft was the first legal woman voter in colonial America in 1756.