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Question: Who would you have voted for?
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William McKinley (Republican)
 
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William J. Bryan (Democratic)
 
#3
John Palmer (National Democratic)
 
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Joshua Levering (Prohibition)
 
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Charles Matchett (Socialist Labor)
 
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Other/Write-in
 
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Total Voters: 40

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« on: July 26, 2014, 08:58:38 PM »

1808: 50.0% George Clinton
1816: 69.2% James Monroe
1828: 48.0% John Q. Adams
1844: 50.0% James Birney
1964: 49.2% Lyndon Johnson


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« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2014, 09:02:03 PM »

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« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2014, 09:08:30 PM »

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« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2014, 09:15:07 PM »

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« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2014, 11:38:03 PM »

You support the gold standard, protectionism, and the Spanish-American War?
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« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2014, 04:11:45 AM »

William Jennings Bryan.
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« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2014, 05:35:48 AM »

For me, Palmer is the only choice. McKinley was a corporate tool who supported high tariffs to protect Big Business from international competition and invaded Cuba to benefit American cotton and tobacco interests. America had engaged in (attempted) imperial conquest since the War of 1812, and successfully since the Mexican-American War, but McKinley oversaw unprecedented expansion of the overseas US Empire.

Bryan was nearly as bad. Most of his positions were based in ignorance and/or demagoguery. He believed that Prohibition would end alcohol consumption, that immigrants stole jobs from native workers, and that simply creating more money would make people wealthier. Plus, he wasn't even an anti-imperialist in 1896, and probably would've declared war on Spain himself.

I'd never for Levering or Matchett for obvious reasons. The former was a moralistic Baptist authoritarian and the latter would've turned the US into a Soviet-style dictatorship. Palmer was the only clear choice: A staunch supporter of sound money, free trade, anti-imperialism, and individual liberty. It's telling that his campaign, the so-called last stand of classical liberalism in the United States, occurred during the last Presidential election of the 19th century, setting the stage for the wars, global empire-building, economic devastation, and massive expansion of government power that would occur in the 20th.
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« Reply #7 on: July 27, 2014, 07:47:27 AM »

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« Reply #8 on: July 27, 2014, 08:57:51 AM »

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« Reply #9 on: July 27, 2014, 11:30:03 AM »

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« Reply #10 on: July 27, 2014, 12:42:46 PM »

My boy Billy Mac. Palmer's a second. All the rest are unthinkable.
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« Reply #11 on: July 28, 2014, 07:42:26 AM »

Atlas Forum - Where a socialist candidate gets more votes than a republican Tongue
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« Reply #12 on: July 28, 2014, 08:31:00 AM »

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...and where John Palmer gets more votes than William Jennings Bryan.
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« Reply #13 on: July 28, 2014, 12:51:32 PM »

I would have held my nose and voted for William McKinley. William Jennings Bryan's extreme social conservatism would have been a bit too much for me to stomach.
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« Reply #14 on: July 28, 2014, 01:52:51 PM »

I would have held my nose and voted for William McKinley. William Jennings Bryan's extreme social conservatism would have been a bit too much for me to stomach.

Right!  You guys have to keep reminding us that supporting segregation is - inherently - a socially conservative thing.
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« Reply #15 on: July 28, 2014, 02:00:52 PM »

I would have held my nose and voted for William McKinley. William Jennings Bryan's extreme social conservatism would have been a bit too much for me to stomach.

Right!  You guys have to keep reminding us that supporting segregation is - inherently - a socially conservative thing.

I'm not aware that Bryan was an advocate of racial segregation (any more than the minimal acquiescence that any Democratic candidate of the era was required to give to appease the South). I would think that a description of Bryan as a social conservative would have more to do with his support for Prohibition and involvement in the Scopes Trial.
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« Reply #16 on: July 28, 2014, 02:37:08 PM »

I would have held my nose and voted for William McKinley. William Jennings Bryan's extreme social conservatism would have been a bit too much for me to stomach.

Right!  You guys have to keep reminding us that supporting segregation is - inherently - a socially conservative thing.

I'm not aware that Bryan was an advocate of racial segregation (any more than the minimal acquiescence that any Democratic candidate of the era was required to give to appease the South). I would think that a description of Bryan as a social conservative would have more to do with his support for Prohibition and involvement in the Scopes Trial.
I don't really know too much about Bryan's views on racial issues such as segregation, but definitely his views on prohibition and his stubbornness regarding the theory of evolution would have turned me off and pushed me towards McKinley in retrospect.
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« Reply #17 on: July 28, 2014, 03:14:48 PM »

I would have held my nose and voted for William McKinley. William Jennings Bryan's extreme social conservatism would have been a bit too much for me to stomach.

Right!  You guys have to keep reminding us that supporting segregation is - inherently - a socially conservative thing.

I'm not aware that Bryan was an advocate of racial segregation (any more than the minimal acquiescence that any Democratic candidate of the era was required to give to appease the South). I would think that a description of Bryan as a social conservative would have more to do with his support for Prohibition and involvement in the Scopes Trial.
I don't really know too much about Bryan's views on racial issues such as segregation, but definitely his views on prohibition and his stubbornness regarding the theory of evolution would have turned me off and pushed me towards McKinley in retrospect.

Fair enough, but as a side note I do believe he was a segregationist.
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« Reply #18 on: July 28, 2014, 03:18:05 PM »

Matchett. He was actually more of a social democrat than a full on socialist.
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