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Example: [Collected via e-mail, November 2012] Saw this on a friends Facebook:Republicans have won every Nov. 6th election since 1860 .... dating back to the election of Abraham Lincoln.Is it true? Origins: In the United States, the date of Election Day for general elections was established by law in 1845 to be the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, which means Election Day always falls between November 2 and November 8. From the election of 1848 up until 2012, Election Day fell on November 6 on six different occasions, and in each of those years the winner of the presidential election was a Republican candidate: 1860: Abraham Lincoln 1888: Benjamin Harrison 1900: William McKinley 1928: Herbert Hoover 1956: Dwight Eisenhower 1984: Ronald ReaganThe 2012 election was also contested on November 6 and for the first time brought defeat to a Republican presidential candidate, as challenger Mitt Romney failed to unseat the incumbent Democrat, Barack Obama.
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