How would you have voted?: United States Presidential Elections

[President Mitt]

1904: Alton Parker (D)
1908: William Taft (R)
1912: William Taft (R)
1916: Charles Hughes (R)
1920: James Cox (D)
1924: Calvin Coolidge (R)
1928: Herbert Hoover (R)
1932: Herbert Hoover (R)
1936: Franklin Roosevelt (D)
1940: Wendell Wilkie (R)
1944: Thomas Dewey (R)
1948: Thomas Dewey (R)
1952: Dwight Eisenhower (R)
1956: Dwight Eisenhower (R)
1960: Richard Nixon (R)
1964: Primary: Nelson Rockefeller, General: Write in: Nelson Rockefeller (R)
1968: Primary: Nelson Rockefeller (R), General: Richard Nixon (R)
1972: Richard Nixon (R)
1976: Primary: Gerald Ford (R), Gerald Ford (R)
1980: Ronald Reagan (R)
1984: Ronald Reagan (R)
1988: George Bush (R)
1992: Bill Clinton (D)
1996: Republican Primary: Steve Forbes (R), General: Bill Clinton (D)
2000: Primary: John McCain, General: George W. Bush
2004: George W. Bush (R)
2008: Primary: Rudy Giuliani, General: John McCain

[President Mitt]

1904:  Theodore Roosevelt
1908:  William Howard Taft
1912:  William Howard Taft
1916:  Charles Evans Hughes
1920:  Warren G. Harding
1924:  Calvin Coolidge
1928:  Herbert Hoover
1932:  FDR
1936:  FDR
1940:  FDR
1944:  FDR
1948:  Strom Thurmond
1952:  Dwight Eisenhower
1956:  Dwight Eisenhower
1960:  Richard Nixon
1964:  Barry Goldwater
1968:  George Wallace
1972:  Richard Nixon
1976:  Gerald Ford
1980:  Reagan
1984:  Reagan
1988:  Bush 41
1992:  Bush 41
1996:  Dole
2000:  Bush 43
2004:  Bush 43
2008:  McCain

Thurmond 48 and Wallace 68? Really?? You're truly that nostalgic for segregation?

Why?  Is it wrong to have an opinion?

Opinions might not exactly be wrong but they can be idiotic and bigoted.

Exactly. These anti-Obama people are members of the Republican Party, but of late it seems that they are really members of the Fascist Party.

FASCISM? HA that's funny.  You wanna talk about fascism, join the democrap or should i say media party.

George Wallace is far from Conservative, he wanted to spend more than the Great Society and New Deal Combined. I question your Conservatism. Mechaman *Snaps* take care of him.

[President Mitt]

1904:  Theodore Roosevelt
1908:  William Howard Taft
1912:  William Howard Taft
1916:  Charles Evans Hughes
1920:  Warren G. Harding
1924:  Calvin Coolidge
1928:  Herbert Hoover
1932:  FDR
1936:  FDR
1940:  FDR
1944:  FDR
1948:  Strom Thurmond
1952:  Dwight Eisenhower
1956:  Dwight Eisenhower
1960:  Richard Nixon
1964:  Barry Goldwater
1968:  George Wallace
1972:  Richard Nixon
1976:  Gerald Ford
1980:  Reagan
1984:  Reagan
1988:  Bush 41
1992:  Bush 41
1996:  Dole
2000:  Bush 43
2004:  Bush 43
2008:  McCain

Thurmond 48 and Wallace 68? Really?? You're truly that nostalgic for segregation?

Why?  Is it wrong to have an opinion?

Opinions might not exactly be wrong but they can be idiotic and bigoted.

Exactly. These anti-Obama people are members of the Republican Party, but of late it seems that they are really members of the Fascist Party.

FASCISM? HA that's funny.  You wanna talk about fascism, join the democrap or should i say media party.

George Wallace is far from Conservative, he wanted to spend more than the Great Society and New Deal Combined. I question your Conservatism. Mechaman *Snaps* take care of him.

Alright! Let's begin:

Strom Thurmond campaign 1948
The States Right's Democratic Party:
Positions:
Racial Segregation: ie Not allowing the races to mix and preventing the sexiness of interracial love. My sworn enemy of political positions. If I ever get a non-white girl pregnant and she has twins I'll name them "Strom" and "Thurmond" to piss all over his legacy.
Wanted to retain Jim Crow Laws: "Separate but equal" bullsh*t.
Supported the idea of white Supremacy: In other words, anybody who isn't a member of the white race is inferior. And somewhere in Thailand opebo is laughing his ass off.
Opposed racially integrating the armed forces for the same reason why dumbasses oppose getting rid of "Don't Ask Don't Tell": It'll mess up the morale of the troops!
The whole platform was flat out racist, anybody who would support such a ticket are racefags of excessive degree.
Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_Rights_Democratic

George Wallace campaign 1968
American Independent Party:
Still pro-segregation: The douchebaggery of this position never ceases to amaze me.
Campaigned on the "Stand up for America" bullsh*t calling for a return to the times before those derned hippies took over!
Only purpose in election was to force the election to be decided by the House of Representatives to which I ask: Why bother?
Ran a facistic law and order campaign that included putting those derned hippies in their place!
His vice presidential runningmate suggested that nuclear weapons could be used in Vietnam! World War III bitches!
Was the most extreme anti-hippie facist ever! He made Reagan look soft! He pledged to run over any demonstrators who got in front of his limousine and asserted that the only four letter words that hippies didn't know were "w-o-r-k" and "s-o-a-p". Hey Wallace! F-u-c-k y-o-u you dead piece of s-h-i-t! What does that spell!?
Accused Humphrey and Nixon of wanting to radically desegregate the South...big friggin deal!
His campaigning attracted the attention of the FAR RIGHT, including the ape sh*t John Birch Society.
As to emphasize how much he loves running over hippies: "I tell you when November comes, the first time they lie down in front of my limousine it'll be the last one they ever lay down in front of; their day is over!"

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As most of you sanes can tell, George Wallace was just as bad, if not worse, than Strom Thurmond when he campaigned for president. For one, Strom didn't talk openly about running over American protestors or nuking the hell out of foreign nations. If somebody put a gun to my head and told me to vote for either of these guys, I would tell them to empty the barrel in my mouth.
Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace_presidential_campaign,_1968#cite_note-4

This kid has got to be joking, or he's prophetman.

I was going for roughing him up with physical violence, but that works too.

[President Mitt]

I am very disappointed in you Mechaman, obviously if he is still typing, you did not rough him up enough. Tsk Tsk.

[President Mitt]

Are my ears deceiving me? Did he just say he did not support Civil Rights?

[President Mitt]

So, you're 16 and you support Strom Thurmond?  Seriously?

Does this thread ask who you would vote for with modern circumstances or w/out hindsight?

I don't believe it has been specified; I don't feel like looking, though.

If I did, what's it to you?  Today it's socially acceptable to be anti-Civil Rights.  So my opinion doesn't really matter.  I'm a conservative Northwestern Floridian, what do you expect?

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[President Mitt]

Well, now I'm not sure I'd bother voting in a lot of these. But I can tell you if I had to do things over again I'd vote for Barr over the lesser of two evils last year (i.e. McCain). That said I'm optimistic about the future in the long term even if the short term is going to be hell due to decades of greed and short sighted policies IMO.

Im just asking this as a question, why do you feel regret voting for the losing Candidate?

[President Mitt]

1788: George Washington
1792: George Washington
1796: Thomas Jefferson (DR- VA)
1800: Thomas Jefferson (DR- VA)
1804: Thomas Jefferson (DR- VA)
1808: Charles Pinckney (F- SC)
1812: DeWitt Clinton (F- NY)
1816: James Monroe (DR- VA)
1820: James Monroe (DR- VA)
1824: Henry Clay (DR- KY)
1828: John Q. Adams (NR- MA)
1832: Henry Clay (NR- KY)
1836: Daniel Webster (W- MA)
1840: William Harrison (W- OH)
1844: Henry Clay (W- KY)
1848: Abstain
1852: Abstain
1856: John C. Fremont (R- ??)
1860: Stephen Douglas (D- IL)
1864: Abraham Lincoln (NU- IL)
1868: Horatio Seymour (D- NY)
1872: Horace Greeley (LR- NY)
1876: Rutherford B. Hayes (R- OH)
1880: James Garfield (R- OH)
1884: Grover Cleveland (D- NY)
1888: Grover Cleveland (D- NY)
1892: Grover Cleveland (D- NY)
1896: William McKinley (R- OH)
1900: William McKinley (R- OH)
1904: Alton Parker (D- NY)
1908: William Taft (R- OH)
1912: William Taft (R- OH)
1916: Charles E. Hughes (R- NY)
1920: James Cox (D- OH)
1924: Calvin Coolidge (R- MA)
1928: Herbert Hoover (R- MA)
1932: Abstain
1936: Write In: Robert Taft  (R- OH)
1940: Write In: Robert Taft (R- OH)
1944: Thomas E. Dewey (R- NY)
1948: Thomas E. Dewey (R- NY)
1952: Dwight D. Eisenhower (R- NY)
1956: Dwight D. Eisenhower (R- NY)
1960: Richard Nixon (R- CA)
1964: Lyndon Johnson (D- TX)
1968: Richard Nixon (R- CA)
1972: Richard Nixon (R- CA)
1976: Gerald Ford (R- MI)
1980: Ed Clark (L- CA)
1984: Walter Mondale (D- MN)
1988: George H.W. Bush (R- TX)
1992: Bill Clinton (D- AR)
1996: Bill Clinton (D- AR)
2000: Abstain
2004: John Kerry (D- MA)
2008: Write In: Penn and Teller (L- NV)

[President Mitt]

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Why on earth would you vote for Mondale in 1984 but then vote for Reagan's VP in 1988?

I'm guessing that's aimed at me. Reagan < Mondale < Bush

Mondale was the lesser of two evils, and Bush was much more appealing to me than Reagan.

[President Mitt]

1788: George Washington
1792: George Washington
1796: Thomas Jefferson (DR- VA)
1800: Thomas Jefferson (DR- VA)
1804: Thomas Jefferson (DR- VA)
1808: Charles Pinckney (F- SC)
1812: DeWitt Clinton (F- NY)
1816: James Monroe (DR- VA)
1820: James Monroe (DR- VA)
1824: Henry Clay (DR- KY)
1828: John Q. Adams (NR- MA)
1832: Henry Clay (NR- KY)
1836: Daniel Webster (W- MA)
1840: William Harrison (W- OH)
1844: Henry Clay (W- KY)
1848: Abstain
1852: Abstain
1856: John C. Fremont (R- ??)
1860: Stephen Douglas (D- IL)
1864: Abraham Lincoln (NU- IL)
1868: Horatio Seymour (D- NY)
1872: Horace Greeley (LR- NY)
1876: Rutherford B. Hayes (R- OH)
1880: James Garfield (R- OH)
1884: Grover Cleveland (D- NY)
1888: Grover Cleveland (D- NY)
1892: Grover Cleveland (D- NY)
1896: William McKinley (R- OH)
1900: William McKinley (R- OH)
1904: Alton Parker (D- NY)
1908: William Taft (R- OH)
1912: William Taft (R- OH)
1916: Charles E. Hughes (R- NY)
1920: William Harding (R- OH)
1924: Calvin Coolidge (R- MA)
1928: Al Smith (D- NY)
1932: Abstain
1936: Alf Landon (R- KS)
1940: Wendell Willkie (R- NY)
1944: Write In: Robert Taft (R- OH)
1948: Write In: Robert Taft (R- OH)
1952: Write In: Robert Taft (R- OH)
1956: Dwight Eisenhower (R- KS)
1960: Richard Nixon (R- CA)
1964: Abstain
1968: Write In: Eugene McCarthy (D- MN)
1972: George McGovern (D- SD)
1976: Eugene McCarthy (I- MN)
1980: Ed Clark (L- CA)
1984: David Bergland (L- CA)
1988: Ron Paul (L- TX)
1992: Ross Perot (R- TX)
1996: Bill Clinton (D- AR)
2000: Abstain
2004: John Kerry (D- MA)
2008: Write In Penn and Teller



Hmmm. I'm a terrible Republican.

[President Mitt]

2000: P: McCain

Why? I thought you hated war.

[President Mitt]

Reagan spent 8 years in office with remarkably little foreign intervention for a 20th-century president.

what

It's true.  His presidency was marked by a conspicuous lack of sending American troops into harm's way.  Beyond the hawkish rhetoric, Reagan was, policy-wise, quite the dove (as he apparently was in private, too - he was terrified of having his own Vietnam, hence the immediate withdrawal from Lebanon when SHTF).

Do you even half believe the shit that you are typing?!?

He didn't even run as a write-in, though. You could write him in, of course, but he still wasn't a candidate, neither as a write-in nor on the ballot.

Okay, he never said Chafee was a candidate, he just said he would have voted for him.