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« on: September 21, 2010, 08:54:53 PM »
Who are your top 5 favorite politicians from your state?

Off the top of my head, in no particular order...

Calvin Coolidge
Henry Cabot Lodge Sr.
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
Paul Tsongas
Charlie Baker
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« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2010, 09:06:55 PM »
Paul Wellstone
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Floyd B. Olson
Eugene McCarthy
Al Franken

Honorable mentions:
Arne Carlson, Walter Mondale, Rudy Perpich
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« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2010, 09:08:26 PM »
Mark Warner
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
James Monroe
John Warner
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« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2010, 09:15:47 PM »
It's hard because there are so few of my state's politicos that I have any affinity for. I don't think of my favorites there would be any Pennsylvanian that would come in... Probably at least the top 25.
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« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2010, 09:32:42 PM »
Calvin Coolidge (Best EVAR!)
Bill Weld (Best EVAR!)
Charlie Baker
Paul Tsongas (look, I'm a non-hack!)

You actually want me to think of five good politicians from Massachusetts?!?
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« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2010, 09:38:17 PM »
Hiram Johnson
Upton Sinclair
Culbert Olson
C. C. Young
George Pardee
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« Reply #6 on: September 21, 2010, 09:43:10 PM »
1-5. Cory Booker
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« Reply #7 on: September 21, 2010, 09:48:23 PM »
Ed Broadbent
Stephen Lewis
David Lewis
Marion Dewar
Alex Munter
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« Reply #8 on: September 21, 2010, 09:59:26 PM »
Quote from: Liberty: We Want Beer on September 21, 2010, 09:32:42 PM
Calvin Coolidge (Best EVAR!)
Bill Weld (Best EVAR!)
Charlie Baker
Paul Tsongas (look, I'm a non-hack!)

You actually want me to think of five good politicians from Massachusetts?!?

Heh, I thought about adding old Weld myself, but haven't studied his governorship enough.

Why not HCL Senior? Granted he wasn't perfect, but...
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« Reply #9 on: September 21, 2010, 10:18:00 PM »
Fmr Speaker of the House Carl Albert (D)
Fmr Senator David Boren (D)
Fmr Congressman J.C. Watts (R)
Fmr Senator Don Nickles (R)
Fmr Governor Henry Bellmon (R)

Honorable Mention - Governor Brad Henry (D)
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« Reply #10 on: September 22, 2010, 02:10:27 PM »
Quote from: Lawrence of Pittsburgh on September 21, 2010, 09:15:47 PM
It's hard because there are so few of my state's politicos that I have any affinity for. I don't think of my favorites there would be any Pennsylvanian that would come in... Probably at least the top 25.

Ed Rendell
Milton Shapp
Harris Wofford (For telling Casey Sr. to screw off on the abortion thing)
Tom Foglietta
Pat Murphy (yep, he makes it already)

Uhh... yeah, it gets pretty hard after this.  The frodo's and Al's of this board would love some of our legacy DINOs.
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« Reply #11 on: September 24, 2010, 08:59:36 PM »
Gov. Mitch Daniels (R)
Rep. Mike Pence (R)
Frmr. Vice-Pres. Thomas Hendricks (D)
Frmr. Pres. William H. Harrison (Whig) - from the Indiana Territory
Frmr. Gov. Jonathan Jennings (Democratic-Republican) - first Governor and rabid anti-slavery activist
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« Reply #12 on: September 25, 2010, 07:57:01 PM »
Paul Simon
Paul Douglas
Abe Lincoln
the current President
Ev Dirksen (Don't like most of his views, but he was Senate Minority Leader and was crucial in the passage of the Civil Rights Act)
Charles Percy
Jim Thompson
Jim Edgar
Adlai Stevenson
Adlai Stevenson III (son of the previous name on the list, and a Senator)
Abner J. Mikva
Frank Lowden
John Peter Altgeld (both him and previous name were progressive governors, and especially respect Altgeld for stance against Pullman Strike)
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« Reply #13 on: September 25, 2010, 08:03:59 PM »
It really was tough to try come up with 5 non-horrible politicians from just one state... I can't do it.

Grover Cleveland
Alfred E. Smith

That's genuinely all I could come up with from New York.



By the way, while he did serve as governor of Massachusetts, Calvin Coolidge always considered himself a Vermonter. Wink
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« Reply #14 on: September 25, 2010, 08:27:12 PM »
Joe DioGuardi?
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« Reply #15 on: September 26, 2010, 01:43:38 AM »
Tom Campbell
John Dennis
Ronald Reagan
Rose Bird
William Knowland

     I really bent the rules by choosing a California Supreme Court Chief Justice (who admittedly was terrible as a justice), but it was really the only way to actually achieve five. Even then, this really scraped the bottom of the barrel.
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« Reply #16 on: September 26, 2010, 02:02:33 AM »
Dave Freudenthal
Ron Micheli
Cliff Hansen
Malcolm Wallop
John Barrasso OR Matt Mead
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« Reply #17 on: September 26, 2010, 02:09:58 AM »

I've always been fond of WFK myself.
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« Reply #18 on: September 26, 2010, 02:29:05 AM »

     I just re-read his Wikipedia article & noticed his role in drafting the Civil Rights Act of 1957. California politicians have been something of a rogue's gallery, but he seems to be a pretty good apple in the bushel.
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« Reply #19 on: September 27, 2010, 01:39:31 AM »
not many in NC

Richard Burr
Sue Myrick

Now for PA-
Pat Toomey
Rick Santorum
Jim Gerlach
Charlie Dent
Hugh Scott
Mike Fitzpatrick
Jim Greenwood
Mark Schweikert
Tom Ridge

And NY
Al D'Amato
Jack Kemp
Chris Lee
Randy Kuhl
Bill Paxon
John Jay
William H. Seward
DeWitt Clinton
Theodore Roosevelt
Wendell Wilkie
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« Reply #20 on: September 27, 2010, 04:10:18 PM »
Quebec is easier for me than Ontario, so:

Jean Lesage
Adelard Godbout
Louis-Joseph Papineau
René Lévesque
Louis St. Laurent
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« Reply #21 on: September 27, 2010, 05:22:17 PM »
Bill Owens
Wayne Allard
Ben Nighthorse Campbell
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« Reply #22 on: September 27, 2010, 05:25:52 PM »
Jim Gray
John Dennis
Tom Lash
Can't think of any others.
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« Reply #23 on: September 27, 2010, 06:05:17 PM »
Marlin Stutzman
Mitch Daniels
Dick Lugar
Birch Bayh
Teresa Lubbers
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« Reply #24 on: September 27, 2010, 09:55:03 PM »
LINDSAY GRAHAM AND JOHN C. CALHOUN
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