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p> ANDY JACKSON DEAN br> Re: Shawn Macomber's Deaniacs.com : /p>

In 1828, the son of a president was defeated by a Democrat who brought thousands of disenfranchised new voters into politics. The son of a president was elected just 4 years earlier -- not because he won a majority of votes but because he was given the presidency through the Electoral College.

The doors of the White House were thrown opened and all those backward backwoodsmen dirtied the floors as Andrew Jackson was inaugurated, defeating John Quincy Adams with votes from the likes of people society folk looked down upon as queer and unusual.

The unusual voting bloc helped make what history has called the Age of Jackson and Jacksonian democracy.

p>Thank you for your enlightening article about those voters who, apparently, are so different from you and other highly respectable folk. br> -- Michael J. Contos br> Conshohocken, Pennsylvania /p> p>

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