What element of politics today started with the election of 1840?

a. party politics are not successful in america.
b. people's votes show what parties they support.
c. third-party candidates often win national elections.
d. all of the above are correct.

The correct answer is B) People's votes show what parties they support.

The element of politics today that started with the election of 1840 was "People's votes show what parties they support."

In the US election of 1840, the Whig party candidate, William Henry Harrison, defeated Democrat Martin Van Beuren. However, a month later after Henry took the Presidential office, he died. Vicepresident John Tyler became the President. In this election, US citizens showed the preference they had when they decided to vote for a Whig candidate, instead of the traditional bipartisan candidates.

i think its the outcome of people's preferences.

1. ford: gerald ford´s presidency, from 1974 to 1977, faced high inflation, named it public enemy nº1, and created the win program (whip inflation now).

2. carter: president from 1977 to 1981, carter had controversial poitions over abortion, but yet, he enforce the roe vs wade decision, which had pro-choice content.

3. reagan. for his eloquency and powerful speeches in his mandates, from 1981 to 1989, reagan earned this nickname, “the great communicator” .

4. george h w bush: despite many presidents had important roles in managing and trying to end the cold war, it was in bush sr's mandate that the berlin wall was materially destroyed, and he was visited by gorbachev in the uspresident from 1989 to 1993.

5. clinton: defense of marriage act. clinton signed this controvesial act, which defined marriage and spouses in strict heterosexual perspective, that was later declard unconstitutional by the us supreme court.

6. george w bush: in the begining of his presidency, which lasted until 2009, bush jr faced the greatest terrorist attacks in us and probably the worlds history, in september, 11 of 2001.

7. obama: in attempts to cease a great economical crisis, barack obama signed the controversial recovery act in february 2009, which handled 780-billion dollars.