And since it was eighteen eighty-eight -- a presidential election year -- the tariff became an important election issue.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

The Democrats won the election, because they were able to bridge the differences between their northern and southern members.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

He said the election of a citizen to the office of president should not be a reason for dissolving the Union.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

In the presidential election of eighteen-sixty, he supported his party's candidate, not the candidate of the Republican Party: Abraham Lincoln.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

And he made sure the country held its next presidential election as planned in eighteen sixty-four,when he was re-elected.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

Pierce wanted to run for re-election. Many northern Democrats,however, objected to his support of the pro-slavery legislature in Kansas.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

It was the first time a presidential election was held on the same day in all parts of the country.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

Hayes was a Republican. His party had great hopes of electing another Republican in the election of eighteen eighty.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

Last year,the top news story was the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president of the United States.

VOA: special.2010.01.02

He told a friend: "I am satisfied that if the election were held now, nothing could prevent me from becoming president.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

He then won a big victory in the general election over the candidate of the Whig Party, General Winfield Scott.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

This week in our series, Larry West and Shep O'Neal tell the story of the election of eighteen sixty-eight.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

They chose the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States as the top news story of 2008.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

To win the presidential election of eighteen sixty, the Republican Party had decided it needed a man of the people.

VOA: special.2009.06.11