Some Mormons would do well to take off their rose-colored glasses of history when examining the current presidential race. I keep hearing bizarre calls of doom and gloom if this or that candidate should win; that this is the dirtiest election ever.
When George Washington was nearly forced to run for president of the new republic in 1789, it was one incredibly boring election matched only in boredom by his reelection campaign where he ran unopposed. Since then U.S. elections have been brawling slugfests of words with the war of words between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams being one of the most brutal. Name calling at its worst. The editor of this publication wouldnâ??t reprint the diatribes.
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