background

As background to the presidential election, each member of the class will summarize one of the past 10 elections.

Your summary should be 4-5 paragraphs and should summarize the candidates (sometimes there are more than two), the issues, the mood of the country at the time, and the result. You should also include a paragraph to put things in political perspective by also giving the Congressional breakdown (house and senate seats) and some of the highlights of what happened when the person elected president was in office for the next four years. For instance, it's significant that after the 1972 campaign, the [|Watergate scandal] broke, and President Nixon resigned from office in August of 1974. I'd say 9-11 happening early in President Bush's first term was also significant.

1968 1972 1976 - Sonja 1980 - Patrick 1984 - 1988 1992 - Graham 1996 2000 - Chase and Mary (start) 2004 - Rose