What do you feel the most important election of US history is?

[MillennialModerate]

1860 is obviously the answer.

I’d say 1800 for the first peaceful transfer of power between parties and 1932 for digging the country out of the depression and setting the tone for who we’d be during Ww2, those two are tied for second, currently anyway.

I genuinely think 2020 will be second. Think about it: It will either show that 2016 was a “one off” extreme reaction the angst against the establishment or it will show that America has truly lost its way and that ‘16 was no fluke. You always hear politicians say “the stakes are so high in this election” but in 2020, they are the highest they’ve ever been except for 1860.

I also believe that 1960 would have been #2 had it not been for Dallas - spring boarding off the WW2 win, the expansion success of the 50’s; 1960 would have ushsered in an era of true greatness for America both domestically and in international affairs. 1968 could have rescued America from its disasterous chaos of Vietnam & spared it from the conflicts of watergate and a turbulent 70’s, but then the Ambassador Hotel happened.

[MillennialModerate]

1992. I submit the idea that the election of Bill Clinton in 1992 paved the way for Waco ->Oklahoma City, possibly Columbine and then 9/11.

If George Bush had been re-elected, I anticipate that Waco wouldn't have gone the way it did, thus no Oklahoma City. The Columbine Killers would have been nutjobs either way but the date they selected was the anniversary of Waco and Oklahoma City so who knows if that would have occurred.

Also, I believe the Bush/Quayle administration from 1993-1997 would have been much more aggressive with Al Qaeda after the 1993 World Trade Center and Embassy Bombings. With the case of 9/11, any little change to the thread would have quite possibly prevented those attacks.

Bush's re-election in 1992 would have took America on a much, much different path.

That’s some strong Kool-aid