Mid-Terms Week: The First Blue Wave (1826)

This Day in Esoteric Political History

Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia

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🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In the run-up to the November election, we’re doing a number of episodes that may help you track and process the current news. This week, it’s Mid-Terms week, looking at a few of our favorite mid-term elections that planted historical seeds for this year’s contest.

Today, we look at the 1826 mid-term elections, where voters rebuked President John Quincy Adams after feeling that he’d been illegitimately elected in the previous election. This is also one of the first elections where the national press played a major role.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from radiotopia.
0:07.0	My name is Jody Avergan.
0:11.0	It is midterms week.
0:12.0	We are looking at some midterm stories that may feel resident to the midterms we're about to have here in the United States.
0:18.0	Today, let's go back to 1826. The first time that midterm elections resulted in a significant defeat for the party of the incumbent president.
0:26.5	So there is a pattern that we've talked about before and this is one of the first times we see that emerging.
0:31.2	That president, that incumbent president was John Quincy Adams and the
0:35.4	1826 midterm was in large part a rebuke of the contentious presidential
0:41.1	election that brought Adams into power.
0:43.5	When he became president, despite his opponent winning the popular vote, lots of hard feelings
0:48.6	abound, lots of people questioning the legitimacy of that election,
0:52.6	the disconnect between the will of the people
0:54.7	and the government in place.
0:56.9	It's nothing to see here.
0:57.6	Folks, no parallels whatsoever.
0:59.8	The vibes.
1:00.8	I don't know. That's just similar. here to discuss as always
1:05.4	Nicole Hammer of Vanderbilt and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley.
1:08.6	Hello there.
1:09.6	Hi Jody.
1:10.6	Hey there.
1:11.8	I want to get to like that 1824 election and then how that impacted
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