7. New York Gov. Al Smith. the Democratic candidate in 1928, faced nasty campaign tactics targeting his Catholicism. One example: A photo of the Holland Tunnel linking New York and New Jersey with a caption saying it secretly led to the Vatican.
If that weren't enough, Smith also strongly opposed Prohibition, which put him in the wet camp. Naturally, his campaign buttons read: "Vote for Al Smith and Make Your Wet Dreams Come true." He lost in a landslide to Herbert Hoover. Well, at least he didn't get tagged with the Great Depression like Hoover.
8. MARTIN VAN BUREN's Free Soil candidacy in 1848 was America's first serious third-party movement, but its Abolitionist stance didn't get it anywhere in the South.
Still, when Van Buren was credited with just nine votes in the whole state of Virginia out of 92,000 cast, his campaign called foul. A Virginia wit responded, "Yes, fraud, and we're still looking for the son-of-a-bitch who voted nine times."
And I Thought That Only Happened in Chicago. --DaCoot
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