got a majority of the electoral college so it went to congress if they gave the election for john quincy adams over into jackson even though jackson had a plurality of votes but he did not have the necessary majority. so adams was elected a and jackson had to wait four more years. and also the war of 1812 had nothing to do with political parties but madison's incompetence. he was secretary of state under jefferson said he had no real experience running the nation to have to make major decisions and jefferson made them. he was simply incompetent. he left most of jefferson's cabinet in place and took on some political hacks hacks, especially secretary of state. the new secretary of state. he has replaced with a republican leader of congress parker and the secretary of state was asked to do a disastrous job and having signed a peace treaty with the americans and london, it takes a month or more warships to cross the atlantic before the ship could bring copies of the treaty here, madison was talk to an baiting canada to show off how strong we were and of course, it was a disaster. >> you alluded a