George Washington didn’t campaign, didn’t ask for votes, and didn’t run a single ad — yet he became the only president in U.S. history to win unanimously. There was no popular vote. No running mate. No White House. Not even Washington, D.C. The Founding Fathers were terrified of accidentally creating another king, so they invented an experimental system called the Electoral College. Sixty-nine electors cast two votes each, and every single one of them wrote down the same name: George Washington.