Most controversial election

[skybridge]

Discuss.

Factually, I say 1876, since Tilden even won a pluraity of the popular vote. Personally, 2000 most affected my life. Since the GOP (since it's forming) always got the White House, 1960 was added for somewhat of a balance.

[skybridge]

Since the GOP (since it's forming) always got the White House, 1960 was added for somewhat of a balance.

Ummmm... what?

Since it's formation in 1856, the GOP always won the White House in these controversial elections of 1876 (R-Hayes vs. D-Tilden), 1888 (R-Harrison vs. D-Cleveland) and 2000 (R-Bush vs. D-Gore). The GOP didn't exist in 1824. 1960 was added b/c it's sometimes considered controversial and the Democrats (D-Kennedy vs. R-Nixon) won the White House.

[skybridge]

1860, obviously.  When you have the South actually seceding over a Lincoln win, you have a big problem.

Yeah, I was thinking about adding that one, actually. But was there any real dispute over whether or not Lincoln won the election?

write in: 1800

Would you mind explaining that one?

[skybridge]

1876, with 2000 a close contender. In 1888, noone alleged fraud - the ec just demonstrated why it has no right to exist. 1824 was controversial but for all the wrong reasons. 1960 shouldn't even be here, its controversialness is largely a right wing urban legend created by the desire to salvage some of Nixon's reputation around and right after the time of his death, and the desire to have a strawman argument against Al Gore in 2000.

NOTICE: I said "largely". I did not say "entirely". Stop beating me! Ouch! Ow! OOOW! Urgh. (expires)

Yeah, but since this forum is predominantly right-wing, I thought 1960 would add a little balance.

[skybridge]

All of these elections had controversial results, but the actual election that was most controversial was 1860.

I already addressed this topic, but the term "controversial" in this threat applies to how much in question an election result is. While I'm willing to acknowledge that forming a new country and fighting a war over a president-elect may be considered controversial, the issue at stake here requires some sort of evidence that Lincoln LOST the election if votes were counted fairly, et al.