H. Ross Peron
General Mung Beans
Junior Chimp
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Political Matrix
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« on: August 01, 2009, 07:33:49 PM » |
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How would you have voted in past US Presidential Elections? My answers are bolded:
1789: George Washington (No party), John Adams (Federalist), John Jay (Federalist), Robert H. Harrison (Federalist), John Rutledge (Federalist), John Hancock (Federalist), George Clinton (Anti-Federalist), Samuel Huntington (Federalist), John Milton (Federalist), James Armstrong (Federalist), Benjamin Lincoln (Federalist), Edward Telfair (Anti-Federalist)
1792: George Washington (No party), John Adams (Federalist), George Clinton (Democratic-Republican), Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican), Aaron Burr (Democratic-Republican)
1796: John Adams (Federalist), Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)
1800: Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican), Aaron Burr (Democratic-Republican), John Adams (Federalist), Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (Federalist), John Jay (Federalist)
1804: Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican), Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (Federalist)
1808: James Madison (Democratic-Republican), Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (Federalist), George Clinton (Democratic-Republican)
1812: James Madison (Democratic-Republican), DeWitt Clinton (Federalist), Rufus King (Federalist)
1816: James Monroe (Democratic-Republican), Rufus King (Federalist)
1820: James Monroe (Democratic-Republican), “Federalist” (Federalist), DeWitt Clinton (None)
1824: John Quincy Adams (Democratic-Republican), Andrew Jackson (Democratic-Republican), William Crawford (Democratic-Republican), Henry Clay (Democratic-Republican)
1828: Andrew Jackson (Democratic), John Quincy Adams (National Republican)
1832: Andrew Jackson (Democratic), Henry Clay (National Republican), John Floyd (Nullifier), William Wirt (Anti-Masonic)
1836: Martin Van Buren (Democratic), William Henry Harrison (Whig), Hugh Lawson White (Whig), Daniel Webster (Whig), Willie Person Mangum (Whig)
1840: William Henry Harrison (Whig), Martin Van Buren (Democratic)
1844: James Knox Polk (Democratic), Henry Clay (Whig), James Gillespie Birney (Liberty)
1848: Zachary Taylor (Whig), Lewis Cass (Democratic), Martin Van Buren (Free Soil)
1852: Franklin Pierce (Democratic), Winfield Scott (Whig), John Parker Hale (Free Soil)
1856: James Buchanan (Democratic), John Charles Fremont (Republican), Milliard Fillmore (American)
1860: Abraham Lincoln (Republican), John Cabell Breckenridge (Southern Democratic), John Bell (Constitutional Union), Stephen Arnold Douglas (Northern Democratic)
1864: Abraham Lincoln (National Union), George McClellan (Democratic)
1868: Ulysses Simpson Grant (Republican), Horatio Seymour (Democratic)
1872: Ulysses Simpson Grant (Republican), Horace Greely (Democratic/Liberal Republican)
1876: Rutherford Birchard Hayes (Republican), Samuel Jones Tilden (Democratic)
1880: James Garfield (Republican), Winfield Scott Hancock (Democratic), James Baird Weaver (Greenback-Labor)
1884: Stephen Grover Cleveland (Democratic), James Gillespie Blaine (Republican), Benjamin Franklin Butler (Greenback/Anti-Monopoly), John Pierce St. John (Prohibition)
1888: Benjamin Harrison (Republican), Stephen Grover Cleveland (Democratic), Clinton Bowen Fisk (Prohibition), Alson Jenness Streeter (Union Labor)
1892: Stephen Grover Cleveland (Democratic), Benjamin Harrison (Republican), James Baird Weaver (Populist), John Bidwell (Prohibition)
1896: William McKinley (Republican), William Jennings Bryan (Democratic/Populist), John McAuley Palmer (National Democratic)
1900: William McKinley (Republican), William Jennings Bryan (Democratic), John Grenville Woolley (Prohibition)
1904: Theodore Roosevelt (Republican), Alton Brooks Parker (Democratic), Eugene Victor Debs (Socialist), Silas Comfort Swallow (Prohibition)
1908: William Howard Taft (Republican), William Jennings Bryan (Democratic), Eugene Victor Debs (Socialist), Eugene Wilder Chafin (Prohibition)
1912: Thomas Woodrow Wilson (Democratic), Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive), William Howard Taft (Republican), Eugene Victor Debs (Socialist), Eugene Wilder Chafin (Prohibition)
1916: Thomas Woodrow Wilson (Democratic), Charles Evan Hughes (Republican), Allan Louis Benson (Socialist), James Franklin Hanley (Prohibition)
1920: Warren Gamaliel Harding (Republican), James Middleton Cox (Democratic), Eugene Victor Debs (Socialist), Parley Parker Christensen (Farmer-Labor)
1924: John Calvin Coolidge Jr. (Republican), John William Davis (Democratic), Robert Marion LaFollette (Progressive)
1928: Herbert Hoover (Republican), Alfred Emanuel Smith Jr. (Democratic)
1932: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democratic),Herbert Hoover (Republican), Norman Thomas (Socialist)
1936: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democratic), Alfred Mossman Landon (Republican), William Lemke (Union)
1940: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democratic), Wendell Lewis Willkie (Republican)
1944: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democratic), Thomas Edmund Dewey (Republican)
1948: Harry S Truman (Democratic), Thomas Edmund Dewey (Republican), James Strom Thurmond (States Rights), Henry Agard Wallace (Progressive/American Labor)
1952: Dwight David Eisenhower (Republican), Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (Democratic)
1956: Dwight David Eisenhower (Republican), Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (Democratic)
1960: John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Democratic), Richard Milhous Nixon (Republican), Unpledged (Democratic)
1964: Lyndon Baines Johnson (Democratic), Barry Morris Goldwater (Republican)
1968: Richard Milhous Nixon (Republican), Hubert Horatio Humphrey (Democratic), George Corley Wallace (American Independent)
1972: Richard Milhous Nixon (Republican), George Stanley McGovern (Democratic), John George Schmitz (American Independent)
1976: James Earl Carter (Democratic), Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (Republican)
1980: Ronald Wilson Reagan (Republican), James Earl Carter (Democratic), John Bayard Anderson (Independent), Ed Clark (Libertarian)
1984: Ronald Wilson Reagan (Republican), Walter Frederick Mondale (Democratic)
1988: George Herbert Walker Bush (Republican), Michael Stanley Dukakis (Democratic)
1992: William Jefferson Clinton (Democratic), George Herbert Walker Bush (Republican), Henry Ross Perot (Independent)
1996: William Jefferson Clinton (Democratic), Robert Joseph Dole (Republican), Henry Ross Perot (Independent)
2000: George Walker Bush (Republican), Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (Democratic), Ralph Nader (Green)
2004: George Walker Bush (Republican), John Forbes Kerrey (Democratic)
2008: Barack Hussein Obama II (Democratic), John Sidney McCain III (Republican)
Based on this the following statistics shew:
The candidate I supported won thirty three out of fifty six contests.
For the parties of the candidates
Republican-29
Democratic-11
Federalist-4
Democratic-Republican-4
Whig-3
None-2
National Republican-2
Progressive-1
As you can see I would have been a staunch Republican with the exception of the elections preceding, during, and right after the Great Depression and World War 2 and 1964.
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