On November 5, Deb the Librarian interviewed Political Science Professor James Muller about the History of Elections.<\/p>\n
Read Professor Muller’s vita at muller.cfm<\/a>.<\/p>\n Professor Muller talked about a number of historical elections including the election of George Washington, the election of 1800 (Jefferson vs. Adams), the election of Lincoln in 1860 , and the election of 1932 (Roosevelt vs. Hoover), and the election of 2000 (Bush vs. Gore).<\/p>\n He also explained how the electoral college works, and the constitutional basis of\u00a0 U.S. elections.\u00a0 Professor Muller reminded us that it is significant that we can make choices by ballots, since originally the changing of political power was a bit more violent.\u00a0 He also gave examples of elections that resulted in one candidate winning the majority of popular votes, while the other candidate won the majority of electoral college votes.\u00a0 This was the case in the 2000 election between Al Gore and George W. Bush.<\/p>\n When I asked Professor Muller about songs related to historic elections, he provide the following list:<\/p>\n 1800\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cFederal Convivial Song,\u201d \u201cJefferson and Liberty,\u201d and \u201cElection: The People\u2019s Right\u201d (the last by John J. Hawkins)<\/p>\n 1832\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cOur Jackson is coming, oh, ho! oh ho!…\u201d<\/p>\n 1840\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cTippecanoe and Tyler Too\u201d<\/p>\n 1860\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cWe Are Coming, Father Abraham,\u201d \u201cBattle Cry of Freedom,\u201d \u201cWhen Johnny Comes Marching Home Again,\u201d and \u201cBonnie Blue Flag\u201d<\/p>\n 1876\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ll Vote for Hayes and Wheeler\u201d<\/p>\n 1932\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cHappy Days Are Here Again\u201d<\/p>\n 1952\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cWhistle While You Work, Stevenson\u2019s a Jerk, Eisenhower\u2019s Got the Power, and He Can Do the Work\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n There are many other entertaining songs that politicians have played for campaign purposes.\u00a0 I found that in 1960, Frank Sinatra had recorded a version of High Hopes<\/em> for John F. Kennedy’s campaign.\u00a0 Presidential candidates seem to select songs that make a statement about their philosophy on leading the country, and that engage listeners with enthusiasm and patriotic emotion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On November 5, Deb the Librarian interviewed Political Science Professor James Muller about the History of Elections. Read Professor Muller’s vita at muller.cfm. Professor Muller talked about a number of historical elections including the election of George Washington, the election of 1800 (Jefferson vs. Adams), the election of Lincoln in 1860 , and the election … Continue reading “Interview with Professor of Political Science, James Muller, about the History of Elections”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informania-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/dmole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/dmole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/dmole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/dmole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/dmole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/dmole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/dmole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/dmole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/dmole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/dmole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}