Is This the Dirtiest Campaign Season Ever?: Consider Circa 1800

The next time you think that this years campaigns have been the dirtiest in our history, consider the following video.  It seems in my experience that we think that every election cycle is worse than the one before it.  The following video shows us that the Presidential election of 1800 between then President John Adams and his challenger Thomas Jefferson was much dirtier than what we have today.  I would also point you to some of what was said during Andrew Jackson's second campaign for the Presidency. 

The folks over at reason.com provide the citations for each accusation quoted in the following video here. 




HT: First Thoughts