<P> In the 1888 election, Grover Cleveland of New York, the incumbent president and a Democrat, tried to secure a second term against the Republican nominee Benjamin Harrison, a former U.S. Senator from Indiana . The economy was prosperous and the nation was at peace, but although Cleveland received 90,596 more votes than Harrison, he lost in the Electoral College . Harrison won 233 electoral votes, Cleveland only 168 . </P> <P> Tariff policy was the principal issue in the election . Harrison took the side of industrialists and factory workers who wanted to keep tariffs high, while Cleveland strenuously denounced high tariffs as unfair to consumers . His opposition to Civil War pensions and inflated currency also made enemies among veterans and farmers . On the other hand, he held a strong hand in the South and border states, and appealed to former Republican Mugwumps . </P> <P> Harrison swept almost the entire North and Midwest (losing only Connecticut and New Jersey), and narrowly carried the swing states of New York and Indiana (Harrison's home state) by a margin of 1% or less to achieve a majority of the electoral vote . Unlike the election of 1884, the power of the Tammany Hall political machine in New York City helped deny Cleveland the electoral votes of his home state . </P> <P> The 2000 presidential election pitted Republican candidate George W. Bush (the incumbent governor of Texas and son of former president George H.W. Bush) against Democratic candidate Al Gore (the incumbent Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton). Despite Gore receiving 543,895 more votes (0.51% of all votes cast), the Electoral College chose Bush as president by a vote of 271 to 266 . </P>

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