Presidential Survivor (ROUND 14)

[Speed of Sound]

As much as I hate to, I am going to vote for Franklin D. Roosevelt.

It's a shame that the Democrats have started this aggressive campaign to get rid of the current president, when there's plenty of dead wood left that should be culled first.  I think it's premature to get rid of recent/current and highly consequential presidents, but if the Democrats want to push the issue, we have no choice but to fight back.  That's the only reason I voted for LBJ in the last round, and the only reason I'm voting for FDR now.

The Democrats didn't start this!  What do you mena fight back?  The Republicans have been on the offensive all game.  We've had our modern presidents knocked off one by one for a number of rounds now.  How many recent Republicans have lost?  I think we should be knocking off deadwood, but we have to unite to save a truly great president, and GWB seem to be the ony candidate we can unite around.   

FDR, for the same reasons as dazzle.

This partisanship has gotten out of hand.  I suggest a cease-fire: for the next three rounds let's all agree not to join in concerted* efforts to eliminate the following:
FDR (if he survives this round)
Truman
JFK
Reagan
Clinton
George W. Bush (if he survives this round)

Note that I left three Republican presidents off the list, but no Democrats.

* Concerted means concerted.  Individuals can still vote for whomever they like, but they should refrain from jumping on a partisan bandwagon simply to protect their own.  If the majority of voters agree to back off for three rounds, then the minority can still express their personal hatreds without starting a war.

sounds like a deal. I'm in. C'mon everyone. we know that like them or not, most of the people on Blue rectangle's list deserve to stay until the end.

[Speed of Sound]

I think that next round we should vote off Garfield.

[Emsworth]

I think that next round we should vote off Garfield.

My personal preference would be to vote off whoever didn't lose this round: GWB or FDR.

[Jake]

Remember that this is a game, ie, don't take it seriously

[Emsworth]

As things now stand, Roosevelt leads Bush 18 to 13.

[CaseyforPA06]

George W Bush

[Akno21]

Remember that this is a game, ie, don't take it seriously

You wouldn't be saying that if we were voting off Reagan.

[DanimalBr]

Remember that this is a game, ie, don't take it seriously

You wouldn't be saying that if we were voting off Reagan.

Yes I would.   

[Moooooo]

George W. Bush

[Jake]

Remember that this is a game, ie, don't take it seriously

You wouldn't be saying that if we were voting off Reagan.

Vote him off if you can. Anyone whose happiness depends on the results of a game like this needs to step away from the computer and find a life.

[DanimalBr]

Remember that this is a game, ie, don't take it seriously

You wouldn't be saying that if we were voting off Reagan.

 Anyone whose happiness depends on the results of a game like this needs to step away from the computer and find a life.

AMEN Jake.   That's by far the best post on this entire thread.   

[WiseGuy]

FDR

[Akno21]

If we ever do something like this again where it's clearly partisan (We could do it with the senate perhaps) we should divide up into two camps, Dems and Reps. Each side ranks five Presidents they want to keep off the island. After each five rounds, the lowest ranked President would be put on the island to be voted on. This way, people like FDR or Reagan wouldn't be voted off until at least Round 20 or so, but they aren't protected the whole time.

[Sam Spade]

I find it highly amusing that people actually care so much about this to create new screennames to vote on this.

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But there are more than Dems and Reps on this board. All the rest of us would be wild cards.

You can force people into 2 catagories with the question "Bush or Kerry?"

[TX_1824]

George W Bush

Suspicious about this one. Registered at 3:27 and posted at 3:30. Could be another alias created by someone who has already voted in order to add another vote for Bush.

Oh, the conspiracy!!

This "game" is getting intense. When are the remaining presidents going to eat some kind of local dish in order to win immunity?

[Beet]

But there are more than Dems and Reps on this board. All the rest of us would be wild cards.

Actually, independents/third party hold the balance of the majority and they are clearly more conservative. This board has gotten progressively more and more conservative in the past year or so.

[Akno21]

We should get an IP check on that, and whoever it is can't vote in this anymore.

[Akno21]

But there are more than Dems and Reps on this board. All the rest of us would be wild cards.

You can force people into 2 catagories with the question "Bush or Kerry?"

And forced with that choice I would abstain or write in someone else.

You wouldn't have to be in a camp. You don't lose anything by not being in one.

[Rob]

But there are more than Dems and Reps on this board. All the rest of us would be wild cards.

Actually, independents/third party hold the balance of the majority and they are clearly more conservative. This board has gotten progressively more and more conservative in the past year or so.

Maybe so (I haven't been here that long, so I don't know), but the majority of posters are liberal: https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=20744.0

[Beet]

But there are more than Dems and Reps on this board. All the rest of us would be wild cards.

Actually, independents/third party hold the balance of the majority and they are clearly more conservative. This board has gotten progressively more and more conservative in the past year or so.

Maybe so (I haven't been here that long, so I don't know), but the majority of posters are liberal: https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=20744.0

Most active posters are conservative though, and this game is a lot better of a test than an anonymous poll.

[Schmitz in 1972]

George W Bush

Suspicious about this one. Registered at 3:27 and posted at 3:30. Could be another alias created by someone who has already voted in order to add another vote for Bush.

Frist was last active at 3:26 and is a Pennsylvania Democrat...
Makes you wonder if there are other posters (besides Nomorelies of course) that had/have alternate aliases.

[J. J.]

George W Bush

Suspicious about this one. Registered at 3:27 and posted at 3:30. Could be another alias created by someone who has already voted in order to add another vote for Bush.

Frist was last active at 3:26 and is a Pennsylvania Democrat...
Makes you wonder if there are other posters (besides Nomorelies of course) that had/have alternate aliases.

I'm really Dick Cheney.

*%$@ you!  :-)

[King]

FDR

[DanimalBr]

If we ever do something like this again where it's clearly partisan (We could do it with the senate perhaps) we should divide up into two camps, Dems and Reps. Each side ranks five Presidents they want to keep off the island. After each five rounds, the lowest ranked President would be put on the island to be voted on. This way, people like FDR or Reagan wouldn't be voted off until at least Round 20 or so, but they aren't protected the whole time.

You know when I started this game I thought about dividing them up into two different tribes, but not Democrats and Republicans.  The problem is that there are more Republican Presidents than Democrats, plus where would you put the Whigs and John Adams (Federalist)?   I thought about doing it 1 termer and 2 termer.  THe problem is the tribes wouldn't be even.  Cause here's what you would have.


One Termers:

John Adams
John Quincy Adams
Martin Van Buren
William H. Harrison
John Tyler
James K. Polk
Zachary Taylor
Millard Fillmore
James Buchanan
Franklin Pierce
Andrew Johnson
Rutherford B. Hayes
James Garfield
Chester Arthur
Benjaman Harrison
William McKinlye
William H. Taft
Warren Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
George H. W. Bush





Two Termers:

George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe
Andrew Jackson
Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses S. Grant
Grover Cleveland
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush

You could probably play around with them and make them even.  The problem is all the big names are in the 2 termers and all the ones nobody cares about are in the one termers.