The Election of 1800

          This song had me on the edge of my seat the entire way through because throughout the entire song, everyone is asking Hamilton who he is going to vote for, Burr or Jefferson? And in the end, he ends up choosing Jefferson which was shocking to me considering all of the crap that Jefferson has laid on Hamilton. Hamilton's reasoning for voting for Jefferson is, "Jefferson has beliefs. Burr has none." To me, Hamilton has no morals or boundaries and to be president and in charge of a nation that is risky to have no morals or boundaries because it could cause wars with other countries or it could cause conflict within the country itself.
          In the beginning of the song, I felt bad for Hamilton because Hamilton's son just died and everyone doesn't really care that much because they are all worried about the election of 1800 and everyone is pressuring Hamilton to make a choice when it comes to voting. It's like they are not giving him a break or any space, they just keep hammering him with questions and not really stopping to ask him how he's doing or how he's feeling.
          Something that I found was interesting in the song was that Burr and Jefferson were both tied  for the presidency but once Hamilton said that he was voting for Jefferson, Jefferson ended up winning the election in a landslide. It shocked me that Hamilton had such an effect on the people's vote because I thought that they all hated him because he had an affair with Maria and so I thought that no one would care about him or his opinion because they thought that he couldn't be considered to be trustworthy.