How would you have voted?: United States Presidential Elections

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1860: Lincoln
1864: Lincoln
1868: Grant
1872: Grant
1876: Hayes
1880: Garfield
1884: Cleveland
1888: Not sure
1892: Cleveland
1896: McKinley
 1900: McKinley
1904: Roosevelt
1908: Taft
1912: Stay home in disgust
1916: Hughes (reluctantly)
1920: Harding
1924: Coolidge
1928: Hoover (retrospect: stay home)
1932: Stay home in disgust
1936: Landon (anti-FDR)
1940: Willkie
1944: Roosevelt
1948: Dewey (retrospect: Truman)
1952: Eisenhower
1956: Eisenhower
1960: Nixon
1964: Goldwater (anti-LBJ)
1968: Nixon (retrospect: Wallace as a protest vote, I don’t support his segregation views though)
1972: Nixon (retrospect: Stay home in disgust)
1976: Ford
1980: Reagan
1984: Reagan
1988: Bush
1992: Bush
1996: Dole (reluctantly)
2000: Bush (retrospect: Stay home in disgust)
2004: Bush
2008: McCain

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1892, of course, being my proudest vote.

Wait, you would support Nixon over McGovern?!

In retrospect, no. I tried to put myself in the wayback machine for that one. Nixon gets a bad wrap that isn't always deserved.

It isn't? What exactly is so great about Nixon that everyone seems to be missing?

The fact that his 1972 opponent was not-so-great.

From a libertarian socialist perspective, McGovern was very nearly perfect.

Fixed that for you.

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1892, of course, being my proudest vote.

Wait, you would support Nixon over McGovern?!

In retrospect, no. I tried to put myself in the wayback machine for that one. Nixon gets a bad wrap that isn't always deserved.

It isn't? What exactly is so great about Nixon that everyone seems to be missing?

The fact that his 1972 opponent was not-so-great.

From a libertarian socialist perspective, McGovern was very nearly perfect.

Fixed that for you.

Right, because the asshole who initiated the War on Drugs, escalated the War in Vietnam (and made illegal incursions into Cambodia), increased the powers of the State and took the U.S. off the gold standard is a perfect fit for libertarians.

Jesus.

Nope, never said that. But McGovern? Give me a break.

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1892, of course, being my proudest vote.

Wait, you would support Nixon over McGovern?!

In retrospect, no. I tried to put myself in the wayback machine for that one. Nixon gets a bad wrap that isn't always deserved.

It isn't? What exactly is so great about Nixon that everyone seems to be missing?

The fact that his 1972 opponent was not-so-great.

From a libertarian socialist perspective, McGovern was very nearly perfect.

Fixed that for you.

Right, because the asshole who initiated the War on Drugs, escalated the War in Vietnam (and made illegal incursions into Cambodia), increased the powers of the State and took the U.S. off the gold standard is a perfect fit for libertarians.

Jesus.

Nope, never said that. But McGovern? Give me a break.

Yes, McGovern. There was virtually no economic difference in policy between McGovern and Nixon (both campaigned on a minimum living wage; Nixon, of course, didn't attempt to deliver), but McGovern was vastly more libertarian in foreign and domestic policy than Nixon could have ever hoped to be.

McGovern proposed to vastly increase the state's involvement in the economy, health care, etc. His foreign policy was basically the same as Nixon's at that time. Calling him a libertarian is a complete joke.

If you wanted to vote for a libertarian candidate in 1972, why not vote for, um, the actual libertarian candidate, Hospers, who won an electoral vote?

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Why on earth would you vote for Mondale in 1984 but then vote for Reagan's VP in 1988?