The nastiest election campaign, ever:
....or so they keep telling us.
Of course the biggest rift in American politics resulted in a civil war but those who bemoan today’s “nastiness” always seem to forget those details. And then before that Jackson was a bigamist for marrying a divorced woman before the divorce was final and then there was Buchannan whose roommate Rufus King was often derided as Miss Nancy and/or Aunt Fancy. ;-)
....or so they keep telling us.
I think I've heard that claim made every four years since 1964.