http://www.common-place.dreamhost.com/election_notes Early American Election Returns Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:28:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While Joe the Plumber's 15 minutes of fame are fading away, it has become apparent that his place in Ohio voting history is not entirely unique. In Harrison County, in 1824, in the voting for State Representative, the official records list one vote for a candidate listed in the official records ... http://www.common-place.dreamhost.com/election_notes/?p=45 As we have gone through the elections, we couldn't help noticing that there are many cruel and unusual names. This week I present to you John C. Death. It's a little morbid but of course all of the people of the Early Republic are dead. I find ... http://www.common-place.dreamhost.com/election_notes/?p=3 Plummer Ijams became part of our funny names roll due to his run for the Maryland House of Delegates.  There are, of course, some variations in the spelling of his surname and others have it as "Iiams".  Fortunately for him, indoor plumbing was uncommon. He ran for the ... http://www.common-place.dreamhost.com/election_notes/?p=39 To see the tributes to Phil Lampi and his research on Jeff Pasley's blog, Publick Occurrences, please click here http://www.common-place.dreamhost.com/election_notes/?p=36 In a time of broad political generalizations based on polls that only started to be taken seriously about 50 years, I would like to make one based on fact. The geographic politics of Delaware have never changed. It is the first state, and the most perfect for a ... http://www.common-place.dreamhost.com/election_notes/?p=33 John Randolph was a major early factor in the House of Representatives.  He served 11 full terms in the House (in four different districts thanks to the growth of Virginia and re-districting every decade).  He also served two partial terms. His first partial term he resigned, because he had been elected ... http://www.common-place.dreamhost.com/election_notes/?p=30 In 1818, Joseph Kerr was elected as one of three members of Ross County to the Ohio House of Representatives. He did not, however, arrive for the start of the session on 7 December, because he was under a capias ad satisfaciendum, which in normal English, means he owed ... http://www.common-place.dreamhost.com/election_notes/?p=25 The folks at the University of Richmond have come up with this awesome interactive mapping service for elections from 1840 - present.  They don't have the early stuff, yet.  But we are working on that ;) Voting America http://www.common-place.dreamhost.com/election_notes/?p=23 While doing the data entry one of our project assistants, David Doughan, came across a set of election returns for Henry Clay for a previously unknown special election  for congress in 1815. There was no mention of this special election in any of the secondary sources (Bio. Directory of ... http://www.common-place.dreamhost.com/election_notes/?p=22 I found this interesting document about the reasoning behind the creation of the electoral college citing distance and limited communication technology as part of it.  All I know is it would pretty hard to get rid of.  For better or worse, we have been stuck with it since the beginning. eleccoll.pdf http://www.common-place.dreamhost.com/election_notes/?p=21