Doomed To Reheat

We’d only had the damn constitution for twelve years before we broke it. The election of 1800 was rough. Adams was an unpopular president, known mostly for the sedition acts, and seen by some as a poor successor to Washington. Jefferson had strong support in the south and thought he was able to swing enough of the mid Atlantic to change the direction of the country. THough Adams and Jefferson were friends and mostly remained gentlemen, their supporters were a bunch of rabble. There were accusations of sexual perversions and transvestism, corruption, devil worship, political punditry at it’s finest. So when the election ended, and back in those days it took months to collect all the votes, Jefferson’s crew seemed to take it. But it didn’t work quite the same as it does now. Every appointed elector was allowed two votes for the presidency, and whomever had the most votes was President, whomever had the second most votes was vice president. This allowed for a Federalist President, Adams, to have a Dem