Poll: Which presidential loser do you think would have made a great President?
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Question: Which presidential loser do you think would have made a great President?
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Charles Evans Hughes		  
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Al Smith		  
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Wendell Wilkie		  
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Thomas Dewey		  
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Adlai Stevenson		  
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Barry Goldwater		  
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George Wallace		  
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George McGovern		  
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Walter Mondale		  
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Michael Dukakis		  
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Ross Perot		  
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Bob Dole		  
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Al Gore		  
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Ralph Nader		  
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John Kerry		  
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John McCain		  
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Mitt Romney		  
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Eugene Debs		  
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Henry Wallace		  
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« Reply #25 on: June 30, 2013, 06:17:10 PM »
Smith, Goldwater, and Dole. Would've gone with Hughes, had I not seen Smith. Religious bias and all. Wilkie would have been... awful.
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« Reply #26 on: June 30, 2013, 09:21:02 PM »
Goldwater Romney and Dewey. I wouldn't have minded having Hughes either.
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« Reply #27 on: June 30, 2013, 09:25:37 PM »
Voted Smith, Dole, and McCain. I've always respected McCain for trying to expense stock options about 8 years before that idea was popular and for not earmarking. Both are examples of non-corruption rare in today's politics.
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« Reply #28 on: June 30, 2013, 10:46:07 PM »
Picked McCain and Goldwater enthusiastically. Waffled a bit on the last one between Willkie, Perot, and Romney before ultimately voting for Romney out of solidarity with the other forum Republicans.
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« Reply #29 on: July 01, 2013, 01:19:14 PM »
No way could Cox have been as awful as Harding.
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« Reply #30 on: July 01, 2013, 01:41:29 PM »
In my lifetime and narrowing down the choices I do think Mondale would have been an excellent president. He would have been superb on domestic and labor issues as well as probably cultural at a time when we sorely needed it. I think he would have impacted the SCOTUS dramatically as well with alternatives to right wing conservatives Scalia and Kennedy. On foreign policy, I don't know, but I think better than Reagan's second term string of nation-building and gun-running scandals.

Also a mention to Kerry and surely Gore, who, considering his alternative, is kind of a no-brainer.
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« Reply #31 on: July 01, 2013, 01:48:49 PM »
Dukakis is probably my first choice.  After that, I guess pick two of Hughes, Humphrey, Mondale, Gore (great on the environment, obviously, but Tipper and the PMRC drops him down to this tier).
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« Reply #32 on: July 01, 2013, 02:34:20 PM »
Humphrey, McGovern, Gore.
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« Reply #33 on: July 01, 2013, 02:40:08 PM »
Stevenson, Humphrey, McGovern, Mondale.
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« Reply #34 on: July 01, 2013, 04:45:32 PM »
Dole, Gore, Kerry
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« Reply #35 on: July 01, 2013, 06:46:34 PM »
Wilkie, Humphrey, McGovern, Mondale. 
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« Reply #36 on: July 01, 2013, 07:28:00 PM »
Thomas Dewey, Bob Dole, and Barry Goldwater.

If I could add more I would choose Ross Perot and Mitt Romney.
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« Reply #37 on: July 02, 2013, 12:17:44 AM »
Dewey, Goldwater and Dole.
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« Reply #38 on: July 03, 2013, 11:24:11 AM »
Where's La Follette?
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« Reply #39 on: July 03, 2013, 02:32:03 PM »
McGovern, Dukakis. Gore would have been "great" in comparison to what actually happened, obviously.
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« Reply #40 on: July 03, 2013, 02:59:55 PM »
Hughes, Dewey, Gore.
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« Reply #41 on: July 04, 2013, 11:42:11 PM »
Smith, Wilkie, McCain
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« Reply #42 on: July 05, 2013, 12:10:56 AM »
McGovern
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« Reply #43 on: July 05, 2013, 12:25:14 AM »
Hughes, Goldwater, and Dole.
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« Reply #44 on: July 05, 2013, 10:32:56 PM »
1. Mondale (I have seen the debate and I think he won actually)
2. McGovern (That guy was nice)
3. Dukakis (After 8 years of Reagan, America's Middle Class had already shrunk enough)
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« Reply #45 on: July 05, 2013, 10:49:08 PM »
Looks like a ton of people voted on here. Based on ideology of federal government, Goldwater would have been possibly the greatest president of all-time. McCain and Romney would have done great at bringing the parties together and moderation though.
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« Reply #46 on: July 06, 2013, 02:05:49 AM »
Gore (though he wasn't really the loser).
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