Order these Presidential election losers

[King]

All the major party losers since 1952 + some third party candidates (Perot, Wallace, Anderson).

From would've made best President to worst President:

1. Al Gore
2. John Anderson
3. Hubert Humphrey
4. Walter Mondale
5. John Kerry
6. Adlai Stevenson
7. Bob Dole
8. Michael Dukakis
9. Barry Goldwater
10. George McGovern
11. Ross Perot
12. George Wallace

[Хahar 🤔]

George McGovern
Al Gore
Hubert Humphrey
Walter Mondale
John Kerry
Adlai Stevenson
Michael Dukakis
John Anderson
Bob Dole
Ross Perot
Barry Goldwater
George Wallace

[Kaine for Senate '18]

1.  Al Gore
2.  Hubert Humphrey
3.  Adlai Stevenson
4.  John Kerry
5.  John Anderson
6.  Bob Dole
7.  Walter Mondale
8.  Michael Dukakis
9.  Barry Goldwater
10.  Ross Perot
11.  George Wallace
12.  George McGovern

[DownWithTheLeft]

--GOOD PRESIDENTS--

Barry Goldwater
Bob Dole
John Anderson
Adlai Stevenson
Ross Perot

--OK PRESIDENTS--
George Wallace
Hubert Humphrey

--BAD PRESIDENTS--
Michael Dukakis
Walter Mondale
John Kerry
George McGovern
Al Gore (b/c 9/11 under him could have been the end of America)

[ChrisFromNJ]

1. Hubert Humphrey
2. Michael Dukakis
3. John Kerry
4. Adlai Stevenson
5. Al Gore
6. Walter Mondale
7. George McGovern
8. Barry Goldwater
9. John Anderson
10. Bob Dole
11. Ross Perot
12. George Wallace

[NDN]

My guesses:

--GOOD PRESIDENTS--
John Anderson
Adlai Stevenson

--OK PRESIDENTS--
Walter Mondale
Hubert Humphrey
Ross Perot
Al Gore
George Wallace ('70s incarnation)

--BAD PRESIDENTS--
Michael Dukakis
John Kerry
Bob Dole
George Wallace ('50s Incarnation)
Barry Goldwater
George McGovern

[Robespierre's Jaw]

GOOD PRESIDENTS

• John Anderson
• Adlai Stevenson
• Albert Arnold Gore Junior

OKAY PRESIDENTS

• Bob Dole
• Walter Mondale
• Hubert Humphrey
• John Forbes Kerry
• Ross Perot
• Barry Goldwater (1980's version)
• George Wallace (1980's version)

BAD PRESIDENTS

• Michael Dukakis
• George McGovern
• Barry Goldwater (1964 version)
• George Wallace (1960's version)

[HappyWarrior]

--GOOD PRESIDENTS--
John Anderson
Adlai Stevenson
Hubert Humphrey
Al Gore
Bob Dole

--OK PRESIDENTS--
Walter Mondale
Ross Perot
John Kerry

--BAD PRESIDENTS--
Michael Dukakis
George Wallace
Barry Goldwater
George McGovern

[Iosif is a COTHO]

1. Hubert Humphrey
2. Adlai Stevenson
3. Al Gore
4. Michael Dukakis
5. Walter Mondale
6. John Anderson
7. John Kerry
8. Bob Dole
9. George McGovern
10. Barry Goldwater
11. George Wallace
12. Ross Perot

[CultureKing]

--GOOD PRESIDENTS--
John Anderson
Adlai Stevenson
Hubert Humphrey
Al Gore


--OK PRESIDENTS--
Walter Mondale
John Kerry
Bob Dole
George McGovern


--BAD PRESIDENTS--
Michael Dukakis
George Wallace
Barry Goldwater
Ross Perot

[YRABNNRM]

I don't think there's any real great Presidents in here; although some may look great when compared to who they were running against. I'm going to try and put personal biases aside and just focus on which would be the most competent leaders.

The Good...
Bob Dole
Hubert Humphrey
Adlai Stevenson
Al Gore

The rest...
John Kerry
Walter Mondale
John Anderson
Barry Goldwater
George McGovern
Michael Dukakis
Ross Perot (he would get nothing passed in Congress)
George Wallace

[Boris]

This is pretty difficult to do. Gore faces easily the most difficult job out of any of these people and there are a lot of negative factors outside his control. Kerry gets The Iraq War and a barrage of economic concerns. More difficult circumstances upon which to assume a Presidency.  Dole on the other hand gets a pretty easy first term but faces the same challenges Gore does in a hypothetical second term. Dukakis basically gets Gulf War I and the recession. I don't know if the former even occurs, at least as soon as it did. McGovern gets the end of Vietnam, the oil crisis, inflation, etc. and then the hostage crisis if he wins re-election. Mondale gets the negotiations with Gorbachev and the fall of the Berlin Wall in his first term; then the possible recession and Gulf War I in his second term. So does Mondale get credit for the fall of communism and U.S. victory in the Gulf War (assuming we go to war)?

Goldwater, Wallace, and Perot can only truly be selected as "bad Presidents." Perot gets nothing done in congress, Goldwater inherits Vietnam and race riots, and Wallace in 1968 was a nutjob. 

[Lief 🗽]

Good
Al Gore
Hubert Humphrey
Adlai Stevenson

Middling
Michael Dukakis
Walter Mondale
Bob Dole

Bad
John Kerry (Mostly because everything would have gone to hell and he'd be blamed)
George McGovern
John Anderson (He had some ties with Congress, so he would have been able to pass some of his agenda, but otherwise he'd get very little done)

Horrible
Barry Goldwater
Ross Perot (A do-nothing, 1-term presidency)
George Wallace (Hey guys, let's elect a segregationist! America would be effed)

[The Mikado]

Al Gore (b/c 9/11 under him could have been the end of America)

You don't really believe that, do you?