How would you have voted?: United States Presidential Elections

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1904:  Theodore Roosevelt
1908:  William Howard Taft
1912:  William Howard Taft
1916:  Charles Evans Hughes
1920:  Warren G. Harding
1924:  Calvin Coolidge
1928:  Herbert Hoover
1932:  FDR
1936:  FDR
1940:  FDR
1944:  FDR
1948:  Strom Thurmond
1952:  Dwight Eisenhower
1956:  Dwight Eisenhower
1960:  Richard Nixon
1964:  Barry Goldwater
1968:  George Wallace
1972:  Richard Nixon
1976:  Gerald Ford
1980:  Reagan
1984:  Reagan
1988:  Bush 41
1992:  Bush 41
1996:  Dole
2000:  Bush 43
2004:  Bush 43
2008:  McCain

Thurmond 48 and Wallace 68? Really?? You're truly that nostalgic for segregation?

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1904:  Theodore Roosevelt
1908:  William Howard Taft
1912:  William Howard Taft
1916:  Charles Evans Hughes
1920:  Warren G. Harding
1924:  Calvin Coolidge
1928:  Herbert Hoover
1932:  FDR
1936:  FDR
1940:  FDR
1944:  FDR
1948:  Strom Thurmond
1952:  Dwight Eisenhower
1956:  Dwight Eisenhower
1960:  Richard Nixon
1964:  Barry Goldwater
1968:  George Wallace
1972:  Richard Nixon
1976:  Gerald Ford
1980:  Reagan
1984:  Reagan
1988:  Bush 41
1992:  Bush 41
1996:  Dole
2000:  Bush 43
2004:  Bush 43
2008:  McCain

Thurmond 48 and Wallace 68? Really?? You're truly that nostalgic for segregation?

Why?  Is it wrong to have an opinion?

Your question has been appropriately responded to by several posters. Still, I have to ask: I could possibly understand supporting Thurmond and Wallace if you were a southern septuagenarian who fondly remembered "the good ol' days" before civil rights. But your profile says you're only 16.

So I ask, what convoluted revisionist view of history do you have to make you, a teenager in frikkin 2009, think the extremist and unabashedly racist platforms Wallace and Thurmond ran on to be A-OK, either at that time or today?

Or is it simply black people really make you uncomfortable?

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1904: Theodore Roosevelt
1908: William Jennings Bryan
1912: Theodore Roosevelt
1916: Woodrow Wilson
1920: James Cox
1924: Robert LaFollette
1928: Al Smith
1932: Franklin Roosevelt
1936: Franklin Roosevelt
1940: Franklin Roosevelt
1944: Franklin Roosevelt
1948: Harry Truman
1952: Adlai Stevenson
1956: Adlai Stevenson
1960: John Kennedy
1964: Lyndon Johnson
1968: Hubert Humphrey
1972: George McGovern
1976: Jimmy Carter
1980: Jimmy Carter
1984: Walter Mondale
1988: Michael Dukakis
1992: Bill Clinton
1996: Bill Clinton
2000: Al Gore
2004: John Kerry
2008: Barack Obama

This, except I'd like to think I would have been forward thinking enough to vote for Debs in 20 and Thomas in 28. Probably not if I thought Cox or Smith had any chance of keeping Harding or Hoover out of the White House though. :-P

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I would've voted for T.R. in 1904 (R) and 12 (Prog), and in 24 I would've voted for LaFollette. With those exceptions, I would've voted for the Democratic candidate in the other 20th century elections.

I would've strongly considered voting for Hughes in 1916, but Wilson did a good job during his first term enacting many of the progressive measures Roosevelt campaigned for 4 years earlier (Roosevelt supported Hughes in 16, but apparently due more to differences with Wilson over foreign policy and personality), and was more anti-trust then Hughes and TR. Ike was decent, but Stevenson would've been a fine president and ultimately won my vote. I would've considered voting for Anderson in 1980 until the polls made it clear he didn't have a prayer and it was a choice between Carter (urg) and Reagan (triple-urg).