Explore 8 of the Closest Presidential Elections Ever | Themindguild

These facts will leave you to wonder why the competitiveness was so high in the presidential elections from the late 19th century. And additionally, why are  we seeing the closest presidential elections in US history currently?
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Every four years, the United States is engulfed in election fever. For the entire year, we watch Presidential candidates from both major parties get narrowed  down to just two choices. Then those two campaigns duke it out for the big prize — The White House.
Election year starts with a buzz that gradually grows into a crescendo on election night. Sometimes these Presidential races can get very nasty and downright  entertaining.
This is especially true when the election is very close. Here are the eight (8) closest presidential race
elections in United States History — starting from  the widest among them to the narrowest.
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The obvious answer lies in the rising levels of political partisanship that we see today. According to VoteView.com, the widest ideological gaps between America’s two political parties in Congress occurred during both of these times.
Furthermore, recent polling from Pew Research indicates that the American public has gradually become much more polarized in recent years. Research data has also  observed two peaks in partisanship during current times and the late 19th century with consistent state voting patterns.  And it is not a coincidence that Electoral College maps from both of these polarized periods look pretty similar from one election to the next.
Americans need to come to grips that we are now living in the most prolonged era of highly competitive presidential races since the end of the Civil War. Not only is partisanship extreme, but the opinions from the White House are also more polarized as well – at least they are being perceived as such.

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