Who would you have voted for?

[gorkay]

1948: Truman, maybe Wallace
1952: Stevenson
1956: Stevenson
1960: Kennedy
1964: Johnson
1968: Humphrey
1972: McGovern
1976: Carter
1980: Carter
1984: Mondale
1988: Dukakis
1992: Clinton
1996: Clinton
2000: Gore

It's not that I would never vote for a Republican, it's just that they never nominate anyone worth voting for. There have been some Republican candidates in the past I've liked, and may have voted for had they been nominated, but they never get nominated (such as Rockefeller in 1968 and McCain in 2000). I certainly would have voted for Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, but they are the only great Republican Presidents, in my opinion.

[gorkay]

Some of you guys went all the way back! Wow! Okay, here goes...
1789 & 1792: Washington (who else?)
1796, 1800 & 1804: Jefferson
1808: Madison
1812: Clinton
1816 & 1820: Monroe
1824 & 1828: Adams
1832: Clay
1836 & 1840: Van Buren
1844: Polk
1848: Van Buren
1852: Pierce, but only because he was Nathaniel Hawthorne's best friend
1856: Fremont
1860 & 1864: Lincoln
1868: dunno... I guess Grant if I had no foreknowledge of how bad he was going to be
1872: dunno... both candidates were lousy
1876: Tilden
1880: Hancock
1884, 1888 & 1892: Cleveland
1896 & 1900: Debs if he ran those years (I can't recall for sure); if not Bryan
1904: Roosevelt
1908: Debs
1912: Roosevelt
1916: Wilson
1920: Cox
1924: LaFollette
1928: Smith
1932, 1936, 1940 & 1944: Roosevelt

Some observations on other lists:
I'm surprised that so many people who voted mostly for Democrats said they would have gone for Ike in '52 & '56. I think Stevenson would have been a great President, and that Ike was mediocre at best.
It's ironic that some of the arch-conservatives, whom one would expect to be the most ardent defenders of capitalism, are so harsh in their judgments of FDR, who saved the capitalist system.