Deja Vu
If you think you’ve never seen anything like this election year, that’s because you didn’t live in 1840, when the presidential race was every bit as weird as this one.
Ronald G. Shafer is the author of the new book The Carnival Campaign. How the Rollicking 1840 Campaign of “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too” Changed Presidential Elections Forever and is a former Washington political features editor at the Wall Street Journal.