1856 Presidential Election

[ElectionsGuy]

1789: 62.1% Anti-Federalist; George Washington
1796: 63.0% Thomas Jefferson
1800: 75.0% Thomas Jefferson
1804: 85.7% Thomas Jefferson
1808: 76.9% James Madison
1812: 50.0% James Madison
1816: 69.2% James Monroe
1820: 60.0% James Monroe
1828: 48.0% John Q. Adams
1832: 51.5% Henry Clay
1840: 42.9% Martin Van Buren
1844: 50.0% James Birney
1848: 83.3% Martin Van Buren
1852: 69.2% John Hale
1860: 71.7% Abraham Lincoln
1864: 71.4% Abraham Lincoln
1868: 77.1% Ulysses Grant
1872: 65.4% Ulysses Grant
1880: 44.8% James Garfield
1888: 51.6% Grover Cleveland
1896: 32.5% John Palmer
1904: 51.4% Theodore Roosevelt
1908: 47.4% William Taft
1912: 37.5% William Taft
1920: 41.5% Warren Harding
1924: 52.4% Robert La Follette
1928: 40.0% Al Smith
1936: 45.5% Franklin Roosevelt
1944: 56.8% Franklin Roosevelt
1948: 35.7% Harry Truman
1952: 63.9% Dwight Eisenhower
1956: 67.5% Dwight Eisenhower
1964: 49.2% Lyndon Johnson
1968: 44.4% Hubert Humphrey
1972: 60.5% George McGovern
1976: 50.0% Gerald Ford
1980: 26.2% Ronald Reagan
1992: 33.9% William Clinton
2000: 48.3% Al Gore
2008: 53.8% Barack Obama

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1856

Fremont (the sane choice)

[Chilltown]

Obviously Fremont, but to be fair, there's not anything Buchanan could have done during his term to prevent the war from breaking out. The wheels had been set in motion long before 1856.

[Rockefeller GOP]

Who the HELL would vote for Buchanan??

[Rockefeller GOP]

Obviously Fremont, but to be fair, there's not anything Buchanan could have done during his term to prevent the war from breaking out. The wheels had been set in motion long before 1856.

Oh, whatever!  Buchanan bordered on treason with his actions toward the South.

[TDAS04]

Fremont of course. 

[Chilltown]

Obviously Fremont, but to be fair, there's not anything Buchanan could have done during his term to prevent the war from breaking out. The wheels had been set in motion long before 1856.

Oh, whatever!  Buchanan bordered on treason with his actions toward the South.

I'm not pretending Buchanan had any redeeming qualities as a president, but nobody in his position would have been able to mend North-South relations.

The Civil War was basically inevitable by the end of the Mexican War. There was nothing either Fremont or Buchanan could have done about it by 1856.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

write-in John Hale or some other Republican/Free Soil Dem who isn't a murderer.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Fremont would have made a lousy president due to his bizarre and rash personality, but I'm not voting for Buchanan or Fillmore's xenophobic revival.

[H. Ross Peron]

Fremont (not a slaver or a nativist)

[Bigby]

Fremont. Then I'd run for the border when my fellow Southerners find out who I voted for.

[ElectionsGuy]

Fremont. Then I'd run for the border when my fellow Southerners find out who I voted for.

Actually, Fremont wasn't on the ballot in Georgia, or any of the south for that matter. You would have to choose between Fillmore and Buchanan. But for the purposes of this thread, don't do that.

[Bigby]

Fremont. Then I'd run for the border when my fellow Southerners find out who I voted for.

Actually, Fremont wasn't on the ballot in Georgia, or any of the south for that matter. You would have to choose between Fillmore and Buchanan. But for the purposes of this thread, don't do that.

I'd move to somewhere like Indiana and then vote Fremont. I forgot for a second how corrupt the South was back during the Democrat era.

[TNF]

Fremont (not pro-slavery)

[politicus]

Fremont would have made a lousy president due to his bizarre and rash personality, but I'm not voting for Buchanan or Fillmore's xenophobic revival.

This is true and it's a hard one because they all suck and two of them had views that are unacceptable by modern standards. I think objectively, and not taking modern sensibilities into consideration, Filmore would actually be the least bad option of the three.

[SWE]

Fremont (not pro-slavery)