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Question: Who would you have voted for?
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Franklin Roosevelt (Democratic)		  
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Wendell Willkie (Republican)		  
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Total Voters: 40

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« on: October 16, 2014, 03:16:57 PM »
1789: 62.1% Anti-Federalist; George Washington
1796: 63.0% Thomas Jefferson
1800: 75.0% Thomas Jefferson
1804: 85.7% Thomas Jefferson
1808: 76.9% James Madison
1812: 50.0% James Madison
1816: 69.2% James Monroe
1820: 60.0% James Monroe
1828: 48.0% John Q. Adams
1832: 51.5% Henry Clay
1836: 56.8% Martin Van Buren
1840: 42.9% Martin Van Buren
1844: 50.0% James Birney
1848: 83.3% Martin Van Buren
1852: 69.2% John Hale
1856: 74.2% John Fremont
1860: 71.7% Abraham Lincoln
1864: 71.4% Abraham Lincoln
1868: 77.1% Ulysses Grant
1872: 65.4% Ulysses Grant
1880: 44.8% James Garfield
1884: 53.8% Grover Cleveland
1888: 51.6% Grover Cleveland
1896: 32.5% John Palmer
1904: 51.4% Theodore Roosevelt
1908: 47.4% William Taft
1912: 37.5% William Taft
1920: 41.5% Warren Harding
1924: 52.4% Robert La Follette
1928: 40.0% Al Smith
1936: 45.5% Franklin Roosevelt
1944: 56.8% Franklin Roosevelt
1948: 35.7% Harry Truman
1952: 63.9% Dwight Eisenhower
1956: 67.5% Dwight Eisenhower
1960: 58.8% John Kennedy
1964: 49.2% Lyndon Johnson
1968: 44.4% Hubert Humphrey
1972: 60.5% George McGovern
1976: 50.0% Gerald Ford
1980: 26.2% Ronald Reagan
1984: 48.1% Walter Mondale
1988: 43.1% Michael Dukakis
1992: 33.9% William Clinton
2000: 48.3% Al Gore
2008: 53.8% Barack Obama

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1940

Willkie, I guess.
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« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2014, 03:21:21 PM »
Our greatest President.
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« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2014, 03:28:32 PM »
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« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2014, 05:12:57 PM »
« Edited: October 17, 2014, 04:21:52 PM by Branden Cordeiro »
Probably FDR
I am personally in favor with portions of the New Deal (I just think some of them need to be reformed in the present climate, obviously wouldn't be a thing in 1940) and I would support his leadership in World War II.
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« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2014, 05:40:41 PM »
How the Hell is a lightweight like Willkie beating FDR?
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« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2014, 05:51:32 PM »

Didn't see Lincoln or Washington on the ballot.

Give me Wendall!
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« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2014, 06:42:23 PM »
Willkie
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« Reply #7 on: October 16, 2014, 06:45:41 PM »
FDR of course
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« Reply #8 on: October 16, 2014, 08:13:42 PM »
Quote from: Rockefeller GOP on October 16, 2014, 05:51:32 PM
Didn't see Lincoln or Washington on the ballot.

Give me Wendall!

I don't get this whole meme of George Washington being "the greatest" President. Being the first doesn't make you the best. I've always though when someone says "George Washington" was their favorite President it is a Moderate Hero hackish answer.

"George Washington": For those of us who don't want to take a stance one way or the other.

"Lincoln" is an easy answer too but at least it has merit.

Voted FDR.
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« Reply #9 on: October 16, 2014, 08:33:18 PM »
Roger Babson (Prohibition)
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« Reply #10 on: October 16, 2014, 08:46:49 PM »
Willkie!
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« Reply #11 on: October 17, 2014, 01:22:33 AM »
Quote from: Cory on October 16, 2014, 08:13:42 PM
Quote from: Rockefeller GOP on October 16, 2014, 05:51:32 PM
Didn't see Lincoln or Washington on the ballot.

Give me Wendall!

I don't get this whole meme of George Washington being "the greatest" President. Being the first doesn't make you the best. I've always though when someone says "George Washington" was their favorite President it is a Moderate Hero hackish answer.

"George Washington": For those of us who don't want to take a stance one way or the other.

"Lincoln" is an easy answer too but at least it has merit.

Voted FDR.

Washington defined the (very noble and amazingly transcendent) precedent of what the Presidency was.  He got this country through its infant years (post-Constitution), which wasn't easy.  For God's sake, the man did something no one has ever done in history: denied the opportunity to be a monarch for the sake of freedom.
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« Reply #12 on: October 17, 2014, 02:38:30 AM »
Quote from: Rockefeller GOP on October 17, 2014, 01:22:33 AM
Quote from: Cory on October 16, 2014, 08:13:42 PM
Quote from: Rockefeller GOP on October 16, 2014, 05:51:32 PM
Didn't see Lincoln or Washington on the ballot.

Give me Wendall!

I don't get this whole meme of George Washington being "the greatest" President. Being the first doesn't make you the best. I've always though when someone says "George Washington" was their favorite President it is a Moderate Hero hackish answer.

"George Washington": For those of us who don't want to take a stance one way or the other.

"Lincoln" is an easy answer too but at least it has merit.

Voted FDR.

Washington defined the (very noble and amazingly transcendent) precedent of what the Presidency was.  He got this country through its infant years (post-Constitution), which wasn't easy.  For God's sake, the man did something no one has ever done in history: denied the opportunity to be a monarch for the sake of freedom.
Have you never heard of Cincinnatus?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Quinctius_Cincinnatus
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« Reply #13 on: October 17, 2014, 07:14:12 AM »
The one who recognised that Nazi Germany needed to be defeated.
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« Reply #14 on: October 17, 2014, 03:54:41 PM »
Quote from: #Ready4Nixon on October 16, 2014, 05:40:41 PM
How the Hell is a lightweight like Willkie beating FDR?

We ran into a similar situation in 1936
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« Reply #15 on: October 17, 2014, 04:15:28 PM »
Quote from: Phony Moderate on October 17, 2014, 07:14:12 AM
The one who recognised that Nazi Germany needed to be defeated.

So you'd be fine with either, or...?
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« Reply #16 on: October 18, 2014, 10:47:02 AM »
Bump because closeness.
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« Reply #17 on: October 18, 2014, 11:45:37 AM »
I don't like either of them, but Ayn Rand was a major part of the Wilkie campaign (going so far to nightly rent a theater to play Wilkie campaign films and argue with hecklers sent by the local Roosevelt organizations) so I will guess I will have to go with my matriarch on this one.
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« Reply #18 on: October 20, 2014, 03:03:52 PM »
Quote from: ElectionsGuy on October 17, 2014, 03:54:41 PM
Quote from: #Ready4Nixon on October 16, 2014, 05:40:41 PM
How the Hell is a lightweight like Willkie beating FDR?

We ran into a similar situation in 1936

I admit, I voted for Landon in that. However, entrusting the office of President to a party-switching neophyte on the eve of the Second World War is an outright mockery of our system.
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« Reply #19 on: October 20, 2014, 03:52:21 PM »
Lol atlas
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« Reply #20 on: October 20, 2014, 04:18:20 PM »
« Edited: October 20, 2014, 04:36:41 PM by TDAS04 »

Yeah, we voted for Willkie and Mondale.
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« Reply #21 on: October 20, 2014, 04:27:51 PM »

Atlas political ideology = contrarianism
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« Reply #22 on: October 20, 2014, 05:01:07 PM »
I've been voting as if I were alive then ... If you're voting with hindsight (e.g., considering FDR's WWII leadership in this election...), what's the point of this?
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« Reply #23 on: October 26, 2014, 11:02:03 PM »
Willkie actually gets the same percentage from Atlas as he did IRL, but FDR is less and third parties are much greater.  A map might look like this:



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