Who was the most "electable" candidate for both parties, by year?

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Starting with 1912 and only including candidates who either ran or got delegate votes (and excluding incumbent Presidents unless they were seriously primaried)

1912: Teddy Roosevelt (R) Woodrow Wilson (D) (TR could have won with the R machine, Wilson did win uniting racist south with the Dem machine north)
1916: Robert La Follette (R) (only one who could have provided a counter to Wilson)
1920: Warren Harding (R) (terrible but he did win big) Mitchell Palmer (D) (really terrible but popular)
1924: Carter Glass (D)
1928: Herbert Hoover (R) Cordell Hull (D) (Hoover won, Hull as a compromise)
1932: FDR (D) (He won of course)
1936: William Borah (R) (better than Alf)
1940: Thomas Dewey (Better than Wendell Willkie)
1944: Dewey (R)
1948: Harold Stassen (R) (before he became a joke he was moderate)
1952: Dwight Eisenhower(R) (he won, war hero) Estes Kefauver (D) (corruption crusader was better than egghead Adlai)
1956: Kefauver (D)
1960: LBJ (D) (JFK actually had a harder time with inexperience than LBJ would have, and he wouldn't have had to deal with anti-Catholic bias).
1964: Rockefeller (R) (not an ideologue like Goldwater)
1968: Richard Nixon (R) (he won), George McGovern (D) (wasn't known as a peacenik as much at the time but would have been accepted by anti-war left and mainstream Dems unlike HHH)
1972: Scoop Jackson (D) (only a hawk could have beaten Nixon)
1976: Ronald Reagan (R) (not tarred like Ford was by Nixon pardon) Jimmy Carter (D) (he was fresh and he won)
1980: Reagan (R) (he won) Ted Kennedy (D) (Carter was just too unpopular and Teddy had the Kennedy mystique)
1984: Gary Hart (D) (horrible choices but best of the worst)
1988: Joe Biden (D) (more horrible choices, best of the worst)
1992: Bill Clinton (D) (he won)
1996: Dick Lugar (R) (moderate and had a good record)
2000: John McCain (R) (more popular than Bush) , Bill Bradley (D) (better than Gore)
2004: John Edwards (D) (I would have said Wes Clark but he was such a bad campaigner)
2008: Mitt Romney (R) (didn't have the McCain slack of being pro Iraq war and everything) Barack Obama (D) (he won after all)
2012: Jon Huntsman (R) (the only one who could have beaten Obama, except maybe Ron Paul, Romney couldn't have and those to the right of him like Santorum had no chance).