How would you have voted?: United States Presidential Elections

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56 - Fremont (R)
60 - Lincoln (R)
64 - Lincoln (R)
68 - Grant (R)
72 - Greeley (LR)
76 - Hayes (R)
80 - Garfield (R)
84 - Blaine (R)
88 - Harrison (R)
92 - Harrison (R)
96 - McKinley (R)
00 - McKinley (R)
04 - Parker (D)
08 - Taft (R)
12 - Taft (R)
16 - Hughes (R)
20 - Harding (R)
24 - Coolidge (R)
28 - Smith (D)
32 - Hoover (R)
36 - Landon (R)
40 - Willkie (R)
44 - Dewey (R)
48 - Dewey (R)
52 - Eisenhower (R)
56 - Eisenhower (R)
60 - Nixon (R)
64 - Johnson (D); primary: Lodge, W Judd, or Romney (R)
68 - Humphrey (D); primary: G Romney (R) 
72 - McGovern (D); primary: Muskie (D)
76 - Ford (R)
80 - Reagan (R)
84 - Reagan (R)
88 - GHW Bush (R); primary: Kemp (R)
92 - GHW Bush (R)
96 - Dole (R); primary: Lugar
00 - GW Bush (R); primary: McCain
04 - Kerry (D); primary: Lieberman
08 - McCain (R) 

Smith, then Hoover, for myself as well. Smith was arguably the more libertarian of the two. As much as I like Hoover for his humanitarian work and his annunciation of constitutional principles campaigning against FDR, we would have done well to avoid Hoover's taxes and tariffs.
Also I have Nixon in 60 but not later. I think he was a different man then, in a different context.

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To get my economic score you need to put "this is a critical issue to me."  No politicians are advocating the legalization of prostitution, for example, so whatever its criticality to me, and I do find it important, it's irrelevant to how I'm going to vote.  Van Buren was the only anti-slavery candidate in 1836.

Van Buren didn't become anti-slavery until after his presidency. It wasn't really an issue in the election - if it had been you'd have seen a North-South split. (Webster was anti-slavery, though the Whigs only put him on the ballot in Mass.)
Andrew Jackson was more pro-slavery than either Clay or Adams.

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TJ, that was pretty unsurprising until the 20th century. You seem like you'd be a WHTaft/Hughes type.

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TJ, that was pretty unsurprising until the 20th century. You seem like you'd be a WHTaft/Hughes type.

That's another possibility. I was sort of debating about whether I'd love William Jennings Bryan or hate him and couldn't make up my mind, so I decided to have myself voting for him the last time he ran but none of the others. I'm also not sure what I would have thought of Teddy Roosevelt at the time either. Maybe I would have been a Taft fan though. I do think I would have been a Democrat during the 1920s and likely would have supported Woodrow Wilson. My great grandfather passionately hated FDR, so I'm going with that as for the reason why I wouldn't have voted for him.

In general, part of my conflict about this is because my modern day self wants to pick more conservative politicians, but if I were alive 100 years ago, since I am Catholic I would have been dirt poor. I can't imagine voting for as many Republicans as I would at first instict say I would. But then again, I could also see myself as the one random voter who goes against what everyone around me in socioeconomic status is doing. Still, someone like Calvin Coolidge might be too tall an order.

You're Catholic?  Then your entire 19th-century is laughable, since the Republican platform was all about how Catholics are subhuman until about 1936 or so (though Harding did successfully reach out to Catholics, winning a majority of their votes for the first time as a Republican).

I'd even say if you're German Catholic, a vote for Cox isn't that likely - consider Wilson's wartime policies and then look at the vote totals in the Upper Midwest states.

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1832: William Wirt (Anti Masonic-Maryland)/Amos Ellmaker (Anti Masonic-Pennsylvania)

Did the Anti-Masonics stand for something you like, or were the other candidates just worse?

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I'm guessing you'd vote for Lincoln if he hadn't been a Whig?

Dallasfan, did Debs' campaign appeal to you a lot more than Bryan's?

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Interesting. That makes sense pretty much. I'm just wondering how much less fear there was of a Fremont presidency leading to civil war as compared to Lincoln.

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not a fan of McGovern, Marokai?

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1832: William Wirt (Anti Masonic-Maryland)/Amos Ellmaker (Anti Masonic-Pennsylvania)

Did the Anti-Masonics stand for something you like, or were the other candidates just worse?

A little of both.
Henry Clay was too much of an advocate for high tariffs (though admittedly still a lesser evil than Andrew Jackson, who I might've voted for in 1828 due to the "common man" rhetoric of the Democratic Party before revealing himself to be a giant psychotic A-Hole) and the National Bank for me to feel comfortable voting for him.  Plus, Masons scare the sh*t out of me.  Seriously dude, they like worship Baal owl idols or something.  They freaks.

I did a little bit of reading on the Anti-Mason Party. They agreed with Clay on those things.

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Am I the only person who would have voted Republican in every election since the party was founded?

Looks like you're mainly in the Hamiltonian tradition.  What appeals to you about AuH2O over LBJ?

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as a CT voter:

1796: Federalist  (Adams)
1800: Republican (Jefferson)
1804: Republican (Jefferson)
1808: Republican (Madison)
1812: Anti-War Republicans (D. Clinton)
1816: Republican (Monroe)
1820: Monroe
1824: Crawford
1828: Adams
1832: Clay
1836: Van Buren
1840: Birney (Liberty)
1844: Clay
1848: Van Buren (Free Soil)
1852: Scott
1856: abstain/write-in: John McLean
1860: Lincoln
1864: McClellan
1868: Grant
1872: Greeley
1876: Tilden
1880: Garfield
1884: Cleveland
1888: Cleveland
1892: Cleveland
1896: McKinley
1900: Bryan/"Anti-Imperialist"
1904: Parker
1908: Taft
1912: Taft
1916: Hughes
1920: Harding
1924: Coolidge
1928: Smith
1932: Hoover
1936: Landon
1940: Willkie
1944: Dewey
1948: Dewey
1952: Eisenhower
1956: Eisenhower
1960: Nixon
1964: Goldwater
1968: Nixon
1972: write-in: Mark Hatfield
1976: Ford
1980: Reagan
1984: Reagan
1988: Bush
1992: Perot
1996: Dole
2000: Bush
2004: Badnarik
2008: McCain
2012: Johnson

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I was unaware. Saw something on the Wiki about O'Conor being supported by the "Labor Reformers."

O'Conor was endorsed by both the Straight-Out Democrats and the Labor Reformers.  He was something of a Greenback and had fought Tammany Hall (Greeley was accused of being too close to Tammany). His support wasn't just about race, though it's also true that O'Conor had been strongly pro-slavery.