Political Irony

Wall Street and the stock market crashed in October 1929. What a difference an economic meltdown makes. In 1928 Herbert Hoover received 444 electoral votes, four years later he was only able to scrape up 59: Maps from 270 to Win

This is the actual absentee ballot that was sent out to voters in New York State’s Rensselaer County. I’m not sure which is worse — believing the county election officials who claim that it was a simple typo that made it past three separate proof readers (are the ‘B’ and ‘S’ keys right next to each […]