Who would you have voted for?

[Michael Z]

1900: McKinley
1904: T Roosevelt
1908: Bryan
1912: T Roosevelt
1916: Wilson
1920: Debs
1924: John Davis
1928: Smith
1932: FDR
1936: FDR
1940: FDR
1944: FDR
1948: Truman
1952: Stevenson
1956: Eisenhower
1960: JFK
1964: LBJ
1968: Humphrey
1972: McGovern
1976: Carter
1980: Reagan
1984: Mondale
1988: Dukakis
1992: Clinton
1996: Clinton
2000: Gore

[Michael Z]

Nice to see Trondheim would have voted against Reagan twice...that makes two of us!

To be honest, the only reason I "voted" Reagan in 1980 was for diversity's sake... otherwise, I would've voted for every Democratic candidate since 1960, and frankly that would have just been plain dull.

[Michael Z]

1928: Herert Hoover (America's hardest working president)

1932: Herbert Hoover

Interesting. What makes you think Hoover was so great?
This is a genuine question, historians always lay into Hoover so it would be interesting to read a viewpoint in his favour.

[Michael Z]

Slightly revised my votes.

I definitely would have been a Whig in the mid-19th century, and a Republican in the late 19th century. That era produced some great idealists: Fremont, Lincoln, Harrison, etc. In the early 20th century I would've voted for the likes of Bryan and Debs. Then FDR came along and scooped up all of us quasi-socialists for the Dem vote...

1789 George Washington
1792 George Washington (Federalist)
1796 Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)
1800 Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)
1804 Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)
1808 James Madison (Democratic-Republican)
1812 DeWitt Clinton (Federalist)
1816 Rufus King (Federalist)
1820 James Monroe (Democratic-Republican)
1824 Andrew Jackson (Democrat-Republican)
1828 Andrew Jackson (Democrat)
1832 Andrew Jackson (Democrat)
1836 Martin van Buren (Democrat)
1840 William Henry Harrison (Whig)
1844 Henry Clay (Whig)
1848 Martin van Buren (Free Soil)
1852 Winfield Scott (Whig)
1856 John Fremont (Republican)
1860 Abraham Lincoln (Republican)
1864 Abraham Lincoln (Republican)
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (Republican)
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (Republican)
1876 Rutherford Hayes (Republican)
1880 James Garfield (Republican)
1884 James Blaine (Republican)
1888 Benjamin Harrison (Republican)
1892 James Weaver (Populist)
1896 William Jennings Bryan (Democrat)
1900 William Jennings Bryan (Democrat)
1904 Eugene Debs (Socialist)
1908 Eugene Debs (Socialist)
1912 Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive)
1916 Allan Benson (Socialist)
1920 Eugene Debs (Socialist)
1924 Robert LaFollette (Progressive)
1928 Norman Thomas (Socialist)
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat)
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat)
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat)
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat)
1948 Henry Wallace (Progressive)
1952 Adlai Stevenson (Democrat)
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican)
1960 John F. Kennedy (Democrat)
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (Democrat)
1968 Fred Halstead (Socialist)
1972 George McGovern (Democrat)
1976 Jimmy Carter (Democrat)
1980 John Anderson (Independent)
1984 Walter Mondale (Democrat)
1988 Michael Dukakis (Democrat)
1992 Bill Clinton (Democrat)
1996 Bill Clinton (Democrat)
2000 Al Gore (Democrat)

[Michael Z]

you can join the progressives MZ

I'd love to, but as I'm writing this Boss Tweed is standing in the corner with a cage full of rabid pitbull terriers, gesticulating at me in a threatening manner. No, I think I'm very happy being a Dem. Veeeeeeery happy indeeeed.

[Michael Z]

Well hello, I'm new to the forum, but have been posting predictions for a little while now. Here goes...

1900 - McKinley
1904 - Roosevelt
1908 - Taft
1912 - Roosevelt
1916 - Hughes
1920 - Cox
1924 - LaFollette
1928 - Hoover
1932 - Roosevelt
1936 - Roosevelt
1940 - Roosevelt
1944 - Roosevelt
1948 - Truman
1952 - Eisenhower
1956 - Eisenhower
1960 - Kennedy
1964 - Johnson
1968 - Humphrey
1972 - Nixon
1976 - Carter
1980 - Carter
1984 - Mondale
1988 - Dukakis
1992 - Clinton
1996 - Clinton
2000 - Gore
2004 - Kerry

Welcome aboard, Tom!

I second that. Hi Tom, and welcome to the forum. Btw, how come you would've chosen Nixon over McGovern in 1972? It's just that it seems out of sync with your other votes.