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« on: August 13, 2014, 02:41:46 PM »
Best nominee of a major party since WWII who never became President... Dewey or McGovern?

Based on these results:
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=197059.0
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=196697.0



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« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2014, 02:43:09 PM »
McGovern obviously. 
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« Reply #2 on: August 13, 2014, 02:44:11 PM »
I believe Dewey would have been more competent while McGovern a better person.
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« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2014, 02:45:26 PM »
McGovern probably.
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« Reply #4 on: August 13, 2014, 02:56:14 PM »
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« Reply #5 on: August 13, 2014, 04:01:00 PM »
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Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.
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« Reply #6 on: August 13, 2014, 04:02:17 PM »
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« Reply #7 on: August 13, 2014, 05:25:43 PM »
McGovern.
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« Reply #8 on: August 13, 2014, 05:45:09 PM »
McGovern had about as much chance of becoming President as the average Atlas poster.
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« Reply #9 on: August 13, 2014, 05:50:14 PM »
Dewey
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« Reply #10 on: August 13, 2014, 05:51:10 PM »
Quote from: Sibboleth on August 13, 2014, 05:45:09 PM
McGovern had about as much chance of becoming President as the average Atlas poster.

Yes, in the actual election he was trounced, but he one of only a couple dozen democrats to receive the nomination by a major political party, out of dozens of contemporaries and thousands of Democratic politicians over the past 180 years. Through that relativistic lens he is an "almost-president."

Not to mention, had Watergate broken immediately and the Eagleton fiasco been avoided, McGovern has a plausible shot.
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« Reply #11 on: August 13, 2014, 06:26:45 PM »
The MacGov!
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« Reply #12 on: August 13, 2014, 06:36:59 PM »
Why not just ask "Do you lean to the left or the right?"?
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« Reply #13 on: August 15, 2014, 12:27:01 PM »
I'll wait a couple more days then close this, want to give more the opportunity to vote, though it doesn't look like it will be close.
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« Reply #14 on: August 16, 2014, 05:27:31 PM »
Looks like the best almost-President since 1945 is... McGovern!
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« Reply #15 on: August 16, 2014, 05:31:56 PM »
Please stop:
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« Reply #16 on: August 16, 2014, 05:49:35 PM »
I updated old threads in this series, and created the next-to-last ones (if it goes how I predict, there will probably be Eisenhower v McGovern). The ones I updated and just poll-locked should drop down soon enough.
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« Reply #17 on: August 16, 2014, 10:19:06 PM »
McGovern, both are terrible though Sad
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