Good Day Thomas Jefferson, Our Podcast,

Listeners, and welcome to this week's podcast.

Hello everyone, this is an exciting program.

Our old friend, Dr Joseph Ellis, has become a regular.

You know, no one can wish the pandemic will last. Joseph Ellis has become a regular.

No one could wish the pandemic will last a day longer than it needs to,

but we have been so fortunate to have him

as a guest because he's sequestered up in Vermont.

And I get the sense that he's hungry for talk he's

brought so much light an insight to the Jefferson Hour and today we talked about

the the most contested election in American history and certainly one of the top four most contested

elections in American history, that of 1800 when Jefferson won narrowly tied

with Aaron Burr and that threw the election into a constitutional crisis in the

Electoral College in the House of Representatives but but David I mean what an extraordinary

little lesson in electoral history we got from Dr. Ellis today.

Well, from the both of you, don't be so modest, sir.

One thing that he did say that really stuck out to me when, you know, I asked him about the effective political shenanigans

going on and whether the public really even was well enough informed during that

period of time to to react to that sort of press and he set us straight on that and he was

the high rates of literacy and how fast that sort of news traveled up and down the Atlantic coast

and also the outstanding numbers

of voters during that time. Right so of white men who had property the

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