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Presidential campaigns in the past were no different from how they are today. Caricatures, gossip, even lies and scandal were part of the campaign, although the information traveled slowly without TV or radio. Grover Cleveland, in the 1884 presidential race, was accused of having an illegitimate son. He admitted it and won the presidency because voters admired his honesty. Other 19th-cen...
Rupiah Banda beat Michael Sata — who had earlier had an advantage of more than 100,000 votes — by just 35,209 ballots out of almost 1.8 million cast. The closeness of the result raised fears of possible violent outbursts by the populist opposition leader’s supporters and police used tear gas to disperse scores of protestors in the slum of Mandevu. At the ceremony M... |