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...electoral votes to win. The last time the House determined the presidential outcome was in 1825, when it selected John Quincy Adams after none of the four candidates won a majority of the electoral votes. There have been a handful of faithless...
...popular vote. There has never been an Electoral College tie. However, the U.S. House handed the 1824 election to John Quincy Adams after he finished second - in both the popular vote and the Electoral College vote - in a four-man race in which...
...saddled her with a reputation for uttering populist jibes that don't hold up. On Tuesday, she erred in describing John Quincy Adams as a Founding Father.She announced her candidacy Monday in Iowa with a speech typical for someone joining the campaign...
...behind the argument that African-American women are racially discriminating against their own unborn children. "As John Quincy Adams so eloquently stated," Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, said, "how can we expect God to keep blessing America...
...something that a candidate should acknowledge and apologize for. Even though she has made high-profile errors - naming John Quincy Adams as a founding father, mixing up the geography of the first shots fired in the American Revolution - she has endeared...
...of our sons and daughters before we get the message? The message being, "your never going to win this way." John Quincy Adams said and I quote: "America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom...
...two of his predecessors as the most successful ex-presidents. Each represents a different model. To Clinton, John Quincy Adams is the paramount example of continued political engagement. After he lost re-election in 1828, Adams led the...
...already has one as the 43rd president and the son of the 41st. That has happened only once before, in 1825, when John Quincy Adams son of the second president, became the sixth. Quincy, the elder Bush sometimes jokingly calls his son. Adams...
...name - and the daughter of a martyred president. We don't do birthright in this country - except when we do. John Quincy Adams and George W. Bush come to mind. We don't elect people on the basis of a recognizable name - except when we do...
...could well turn out to be the loser. The three presidents who have won office without winning the popular vote -- John Quincy Adams in 1824, Rutherford Hayes in 1876 and Benjamin Harrison in 1888 -- all turned out to be one-term presidents...