Posted on 07/07/2016 12:51:40 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town
For the record: When Washington won the presidential election of 1789 with 69 votes in the electoral college, Adams came in second with 34 votes and he became Vice President; in that capacity, he became under the Constitution the President of the United States Senate.
Other candidates who received Electoral votes were John Jay (9), Robert H. Harrison (6), John Rutledge (6), John Hancock (4), George Clinton (3), Samuel Huntington (2), John Milton (2), James Armstrong (1), Benjamin Lincoln (1), and Edward Telfair (1).
So there were 69 votes for Washington and 69 votes for other candidates.
It wasn’t about the existence of political parties, it was about the accumulation of Electoral votes. The original Constitution said that whoever got the most Electors was the president and whoever finished second was Vice President.
Imagne if that was still the case!
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