The Great Primary: Democrats

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Imagine if you will a world in which the spirits of the dead have returned to make visitations upon us, the living. The dead - and the politically dead, who are often the same - have decided to return to their past vocation. Towards this end every President of the 20th century has been allowed the opportunity to enter into the ranks of his Party and compete for the nomination of that Party for the Presidency of the United States in 2012.

The rules are these: the world has changed; these men have not. They are re-emerging in history exactly as they were as they left it, and may have a Hell of a time adjusting to that fact.

With that in mind, Democrats, these are your candidates:

Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Lyndon Baines Johnson
James Earl Carter
William Jefferson Clinton

Every man will compete in this primary, and every man is for himself. Each will campaign fully for the nomination regardless of ties of family or friendship. I leave the arrangements for the maps up to you.

[CatoMinor]

Pink - Roosevelt; Green - Kennedy; Red- Johnson; blue - Clinton; Orange - Carter

[Phony Moderate]

Carter and Wilson both get a somewhat respectable level of support in the South (both for different reasons). Clinton does about as well as Edwards in 2008. The race between Roosevelt and Kennedy for the nomination would be as close and as fiercely contested as the Obama-Clinton race in 2008. I'm not sure how well or how badly Johnson and Truman would do. 

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Carter and Wilson both get a somewhat respectable level of support in the South (both for different reasons). Clinton does about as well as Edwards in 2008. The race between Roosevelt and Kennedy for the nomination would be as close and as fiercely contested as the Obama-Clinton race in 2008. I'm not sure how well or how badly Johnson and Truman would do. 

Any thoughts on what a map may look like?

[tpfkaw]

FDR landslide, though Kennedy and Clinton might make it respectable.

[Niemeyerite]

I don't know. my guess is that roosevelt wins Iowa, then kennedy wins new hampshire. roosevelt again wins michigan, and michigan would be a close race between him and kennedy. finally, roosevelt wins nevada. SC goes to wilson. carter drops out and endorses roosevelt. johnson also endorses roosevelt. kennedy wins new england and clinton supports him. roosevelt wins everywhere outside the deep south (wilson wins alabama, mississippi and lousiana, while roosevelt carries georgia, florida and arkansas) and new england.

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I don't really see Carter endorsing Roosevelt. Carter ran a very tight economic ship as President in an effort to fight inflation, with Volcker's appointment to the Fed and the deregulation of the airline industry being the biggest examples. Their philosophies differ in their basics.

[Niemeyerite]

but between wilson, roosevelt and kennedy he would probably support FDR, IMO

[feeblepizza]

FDR, the patron saint of American socialism, would win and choose his mentor Wilson as his VP.

[Lambsbread]

JFK all the way.

[Elyski]

Roosevelt
Kennedy
Carter
Clinton

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The Candidates


Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey


Franklin D Roosevelt of New York


Harry S Truman of Missouri


John F Kennedy of Massachusetts


Lyndon B Johnson of Texas


James Earl Carter of Georgia


William Jefferson Clinton of Arkansas

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Three-way race between FDR, JFK, and Bill Clinton.  Kennedy takes the Northeast, Clinton takes the Upper Midwest and South, and FDR takes everything else.

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Kennedy gets New England, Carter gets the Deep South, Clinton gets the Upper South, and Roosevelt cleans up everywhere else.