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As we enter a period of campaigns for the White House in election 2004, how much do you know about Presidential Elections?

 

The first Presidential PRIMARY ELECTION was held in 1905.  
Which state was the FIRST to have a Presidential Primary Election?

 Your Answer

 

  1. New Hampshire
  2. Iowa
  3. New York
  4. Wisconsin
  5. Texas

What FORMER President later ran unsuccessfully as a third party candidate in a campaign in which the incumbent President ALSO lost, making the victor the only man to defeat TWO Presidents in a single election?

Your Answer

 

  1. No Former President has ever later run as a third-party candidate.
  2. Theodore Roosevelt
  3. Andrew Jackson 
  4. Thomas Jefferson
  5. John Quincy Adams

Our nation's fourth Presidential election pitted incumbent President John Adams against Vice President Thomas Jefferson.  The campaign was bitter and when Adams' son was killed it an accident, it provided the outgoing President excuse NOT to attend the inauguration of his successor.  What other outgoing President(s) were so bitter after loosing that they refused to attend the inauguration of their successor?

Your Answer

 

  1. John Quincy Adams
  2. Andrew Johnson
  3. Both 1 and 2
  4. None of the Above
  5. No other Incumbent has ever failed to attend Inauguration of his successor.
Scandal has always been a sensational element of a Presidential campaign. What Presidential candidate's scandal centered around his WIFE, and the legitimacy of his relationship to her? Your Answer

  1. Thomas Jefferson
  2. Andrew Jackson
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. John Kennedy
  5. Bill Clinton
 

What Presidential candidate's RELIGIOUS affiliation, or lack thereof, became a MAJOR issue during his campaign for election?

Your Answer

 

  1. Thomas Jefferson (No Religious Affiliation)
  2. James Garfield (Disciples of Christ)
  3. William Taft (Unitarian)
  4. Herbert Clark (Quaker)
  5. John Kennedy (Catholic)


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