How would you have voted?: United States Presidential Elections

[Mechaman]

1789. George Clinton (Anti-Federalist)
1792. Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)
1796. Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)
1800. Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)
1804. Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)
1808. James Madison (Democratic-Republican)
1812. James Madison (Democratic-Republican)
1816. James Monroe (Democratic-Republican)
1820. James Monroe (Democratic-Republican)
1824. Andrew Jackson (Democratic-Republican)
1828. Andrew Jackson (Democratic)
1832. Andrew Jackson (Democratic)
1836. Martin Van Buren (Democratic)
1840. Martin Van Buren (Democratic)
1844. James G. Birney (Liberty)
1848. Martin Van Buren (Free Soil Party)
1852. John Parker Hale (Free Soil Party)
1856. John C. Fremont (Republican)
1860. NOTA
1864. George McClellan (Democratic)
1868. Horatio Seymour (Democratic)
1872. Horace Greeley (Liberal Republican)
1876. Samuel J. Tilden (Democratic)
1880. Winfield Hancock (Democratic)
1884. Grover Cleveland (Democratic)
1888. Grover Cleveland (Democratic)
1892. Grover Cleveland (Democratic)
1896. John McCauley Palmer (National Democrat)
1900. William McKinley (Republican)
1904. Alton B. Parker (Democratic)
1908. William Howard Taft (Republican)
1912. William Howard Taft (Republican)
1916. Charles Evan Hughes (Republican)
1920. Warren G. Harding (Republican)
1924. Calvin Coolidge (Republican)
1928. NOTA
1932. NOTA
1936. Alfred Landon (Republican)
1940. Wendell Wilkie (Republican)
1944. Thomas Dewey (Republican)
1948. Thomas Dewey (Republican)
1952. Adlai Stevenson II (Democratic)
1956. Adlai Stevenson II (Democratic)
1960. John F Kennedy (Democratic)
1964. P:William Scranton (Republican) G:Lyndon Johnson (Democratic)
1968. P:Eugene McCarthy (Democratic) G:Hubert Humphrey (Democratic)
1972. P:Eugene McCarthy (Democratic) G:George McGovern (Democratic)
1976. P:Jerry Brown (Democratic) G:Gerald Ford (Republican)
1980. G:Ed Clark (Libertarian)
1984. P:Gary Hart (Democratic) G:David Bergland (Libertarian)
1988. P:Jack Kemp (Republican) G:Ron Paul (Libertarian)
1992. P:Paul Tsongas (Democratic) G:Ross Perot (Independent)
1996. P:Pete Wilson (Republican) G:Harry Browne (Libertarian)
2000. G:Harry Browne (Libertarian)
2004. P:Howard Dean (Democratic) G:Michael Badnarik (Libertarian)
2008. P:Ron Paul (Republican) G: Ron Paul (Constitution)

As you can see I'm quite the Civil Libertarian.

[Mechaman]

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?

[Mechaman]

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?

Opinions might not exactly be wrong but they can be idiotic and bigoted.

Exactly. These anti-Obama people are members of the Republican Party, but of late it seems that they are really members of the Fascist Party.

FASCISM? HA that's funny.  You wanna talk about fascism, join the democrap or should i say media party.

George Wallace is far from Conservative, he wanted to spend more than the Great Society and New Deal Combined. I question your Conservatism. Mechaman *Snaps* take care of him.

Alright! Let's begin:

Strom Thurmond campaign 1948
The States Right's Democratic Party:
Positions:
Racial Segregation: ie Not allowing the races to mix and preventing the sexiness of interracial love. My sworn enemy of political positions. If I ever get a non-white girl pregnant and she has twins I'll name them "Strom" and "Thurmond" to piss all over his legacy.
Wanted to retain Jim Crow Laws: "Separate but equal" bullsh*t.
Supported the idea of white Supremacy: In other words, anybody who isn't a member of the white race is inferior. And somewhere in Thailand opebo is laughing his ass off.
Opposed racially integrating the armed forces for the same reason why dumbasses oppose getting rid of "Don't Ask Don't Tell": It'll mess up the morale of the troops!
The whole platform was flat out racist, anybody who would support such a ticket are racefags of excessive degree.
Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_Rights_Democratic

George Wallace campaign 1968
American Independent Party:
Still pro-segregation: The douchebaggery of this position never ceases to amaze me.
Campaigned on the "Stand up for America" bullsh*t calling for a return to the times before those derned hippies took over!
Only purpose in election was to force the election to be decided by the House of Representatives to which I ask: Why bother?
Ran a facistic law and order campaign that included putting those derned hippies in their place!
His vice presidential runningmate suggested that nuclear weapons could be used in Vietnam! World War III bitches!
Was the most extreme anti-hippie facist ever! He made Reagan look soft! He pledged to run over any demonstrators who got in front of his limousine and asserted that the only four letter words that hippies didn't know were "w-o-r-k" and "s-o-a-p". Hey Wallace! F-u-c-k y-o-u you dead piece of s-h-i-t! What does that spell!?
Accused Humphrey and Nixon of wanting to radically desegregate the South...big friggin deal!
His campaigning attracted the attention of the FAR RIGHT, including the ape sh*t John Birch Society.
As to emphasize how much he loves running over hippies: "I tell you when November comes, the first time they lie down in front of my limousine it'll be the last one they ever lay down in front of; their day is over!"

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As most of you sanes can tell, George Wallace was just as bad, if not worse, than Strom Thurmond when he campaigned for president. For one, Strom didn't talk openly about running over American protestors or nuking the hell out of foreign nations. If somebody put a gun to my head and told me to vote for either of these guys, I would tell them to empty the barrel in my mouth.
Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace_presidential_campaign,_1968#cite_note-4

This kid has got to be joking, or he's prophetman.

[Mechaman]

Umm duh.  It's so funny to watch you guys overreact and trip over yourselves on this board.  I can't believe you actually thought I was serious.

Keep telling yourself that kid. I knew you were mega bullshitting the whole time, thus why I called your bluff:

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[Mechaman]

Umm duh.  It's so funny to watch you guys overreact and trip over yourselves on this board.  I can't believe you actually thought I was serious.

Keep telling yourself that kid. I knew you were mega bullshitting the whole time, thus why I called your bluff:

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Do you want a cookie or something?  I told you I was joking.

I knew you were joking and frankly, nobody is impressed. All you did was waste your own time making a pointless joke like that. Everybody is laughing, not with you, but at your desperate attempt to be an attention whore joke poster.

[Mechaman]

Umm duh.  It's so funny to watch you guys overreact and trip over yourselves on this board.  I can't believe you actually thought I was serious.

Keep telling yourself that kid. I knew you were mega bullshitting the whole time, thus why I called your bluff:

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Do you want a cookie or something?  I told you I was joking.

I knew you were joking and frankly, nobody is impressed. All you did was waste your own time making a pointless joke like that. Everybody is laughing, not with you, but at your desperate attempt to be an attention whore joke poster.

I LOVE IT!  Keep blasting me, it's funny.

Okay!

[Mechaman]

Umm duh.  It's so funny to watch you guys overreact and trip over yourselves on this board.  I can't believe you actually thought I was serious.

Keep telling yourself that kid. I knew you were mega bullshitting the whole time, thus why I called your bluff:

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Do you want a cookie or something?  I told you I was joking.

I knew you were joking and frankly, nobody is impressed. All you did was waste your own time making a pointless joke like that. Everybody is laughing, not with you, but at your desperate attempt to be an attention whore joke poster.

I LOVE IT!  Keep blasting me, it's funny.

Okay!

Is that the best you've got?

[Mechaman]

Guys floridarepub is friggin kidding. Did you guys not see the little fake insultfest between me and him (or is it she)?
Besides he is so right, Civil Rights are overrated, what about Prostitute Rights? I'd rather have hookers to bang than an equal and just society.

[Mechaman]

1932: Harvey (L)
1936: Landon (R)
1940: Willkie (R)
1944: Dewey (R)
1948: Dewey (R)
1952: Stevenson (D)
1956: Stevenson (D)
1960: Kennedy (D)
1964: Stay at home
1968: Stay at home
1972: Hospers (L)
1976: MacBride (L)
1980: Clark (L)
1984: Bergland (L)
1988: Paul (L)
1992: Marrou (L)
1996: Browne (L)
2000: Nader (G)
2004: Badnarik (L)
2008 primaries: Paul (R)
2008 election: McCain (R)

Rather interesting that the only two Democrats you vote for in this period are the ones I wouldn't vote for.

I hate Bible-basher Ike and gold hating crook Nixon too much to ever consider voting for them.

And you take the racist Stevenson/Kefauver ticket?

What? I don't even........

[Mechaman]

1932: Harvey (L)
1936: Landon (R)
1940: Willkie (R)
1944: Dewey (R)
1948: Dewey (R)
1952: Stevenson (D)
1956: Stevenson (D)
1960: Kennedy (D)
1964: Stay at home
1968: Stay at home
1972: Hospers (L)
1976: MacBride (L)
1980: Clark (L)
1984: Bergland (L)
1988: Paul (L)
1992: Marrou (L)
1996: Browne (L)
2000: Nader (G)
2004: Badnarik (L)
2008 primaries: Paul (R)
2008 election: McCain (R)

Rather interesting that the only two Democrats you vote for in this period are the ones I wouldn't vote for.

I hate Bible-basher Ike and gold hating crook Nixon too much to ever consider voting for them.

And you take the racist Stevenson/Kefauver ticket?

What? I don't even........

Hmm?

I mean granted, they did get alot of votes in the south but Stevenson and Kefauver were both pretty pro Civil Rights, in Stevenson's case I would argue even more so than Eisenhower, hell Adlai Stevenson would be considered a bleeding heart liberal peacenik today. The only way I could see your comment working is based on the fact that he won some of the Deep South states that at the time were so Solid Democratic that they would probably vote for Stalin if he had the word "Democrat" in front of his name. Stevenson was to Eisenhower's left when it came to civil rights, not his right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Politics
Kefauver was also pro-civil rights, as exhibited by his refusal to sign the Southern Manifesto in 1956, the same year he ran as Vice President.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Manifesto

That is why I'm kind of confused by you calling this ticket "racist".

[Mechaman]

1932: Harvey (L)
1936: Landon (R)
1940: Willkie (R)
1944: Dewey (R)
1948: Dewey (R)
1952: Stevenson (D)
1956: Stevenson (D)
1960: Kennedy (D)
1964: Stay at home
1968: Stay at home
1972: Hospers (L)
1976: MacBride (L)
1980: Clark (L)
1984: Bergland (L)
1988: Paul (L)
1992: Marrou (L)
1996: Browne (L)
2000: Nader (G)
2004: Badnarik (L)
2008 primaries: Paul (R)
2008 election: McCain (R)

Rather interesting that the only two Democrats you vote for in this period are the ones I wouldn't vote for.

I hate Bible-basher Ike and gold hating crook Nixon too much to ever consider voting for them.

And you take the racist Stevenson/Kefauver ticket?

What? I don't even........

Hmm?

I mean granted, they did get alot of votes in the south but Stevenson and Kefauver were both pretty pro Civil Rights, in Stevenson's case I would argue even more so than Eisenhower, hell Adlai Stevenson would be considered a bleeding heart liberal peacenik today. The only way I could see your comment working is based on the fact that he won some of the Deep South states that at the time were so Solid Democratic that they would probably vote for Stalin if he had the word "Democrat" in front of his name. Stevenson was to Eisenhower's left when it came to civil rights, not his right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Politics
Kefauver was also pro-civil rights, as exhibited by his refusal to sign the Southern Manifesto in 1956, the same year he ran as Vice President.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Manifesto

That is why I'm kind of confused by you calling this ticket "racist".

Have you read Master of the Senate? Stevenson sold out to the South in '56.

Sorry Xahar, I don't have enough time to read random political books. However, I really don't see what makes Stevenson's run in '56 any more racist than say EVERY DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN BEFORE TRUMAN.

[Mechaman]

Decided to revise the list a bit. Only including major parties (ones that won electoral votes):

1789: George Washington
1792: George Washington
1796: Thomas Jefferson (D-R)
1800: Thomas Jefferson (D-R)
1804: Thomas Jefferson (D-R)
1808: Charles C Pinckney (F)
1812: DeWitt Clinton (F)
1816: James Monroe (D-R)
1820: James Monroe (D-R)
1824: Henry Clay (D-R)
1828: John Quincy Adams (NR) *
1832: John Floyd (N)
1836: Martin Van Buren (D)
1840: Martin Van Buren (D)
1844: Henry Clay (W)
1848: Lewis Cass (D)
1852: Winfield Scott (W) *
1856: John C. Fremont (R) *
1860: John Bell (CU)
1864: George B McClellan (D)
1868: Horatio Seymour (D)
1872: Horace Greeley (D)
1876: Samuel J Tilden (D)
1880: James A Garfield (R)
1884: Grover Cleveland (D)
1888: Grover Cleveland (D)
1892: Grover Cleveland (D)
1896: William Jennings Bryan (D)
1900: William Jennings Bryan (D)
1904: Alton B Parker (D)
1908: William Howard Taft (R) *
1912: William Howard Taft (R) *
1916: Charles E Hughes (R)
1920: Warren G Harding (R)
1924: Calvin Coolidge (R)
1928: Al Smith (D)
1932: Herbert Hoover (R) *
1936: Alf Landon (R) *
1940: Wendell Wilkie (R)
1944: Thomas E Dewey (R) *
1948: Thomas E Dewey (R) *
1952: Adlai Stevenson (D) *
1956: Adlai Stevenson (D) *
1960: John F Kennedy (D)
1964: Barry Goldwater (R)
1968: Hubert Humphrey (R)
1972: George McGovern (D)
1976: Jimmy Carter (D)
1980: Jimmy Carter (D)
1984: Walter Mondale (D)
1988: George H.W. Bush (R)
1992: Bill Clinton (D)
1996: Bill Clinton (D)
2000: George W Bush (R) *
2004: John Kerry (D)
2008: John McCain (R) *

* = Reluctant

Humphrey was a Republican?

[Mechaman]

1952: Stevenson (D) P: Taft
1956: Eisenhower (R) P: Stevenson
1960: Nixon (R) P: Morse
1964: Goldwater (R) P: Goldwater
1968: McCarthy (I) P: McCarthy
1972: McGovern (D) P: McGovern
1976: McCarthy (I) P: Carter
1980: Carter (D) P: Carter
1984: Bergland  (L) P: Hart
1988: Paul (L) P: Kemp
1992: Perot (I) P: Buchanan
1996: Browne (L) P: Buchanan
2000: Buchanan (Ref) P: McCain 
2004: Nader (I) P: Dean
2008: Nader (I) P: Paul

Ha ha, you're all over the place. 

Wait a minute, you would vote Stevenson in the primaries in '56 and then vote against him in the general?
Why?

[Mechaman]

1952: Stevenson (D) P: Taft
1956: Eisenhower (R) P: Stevenson
1960: Nixon (R) P: Morse
1964: Goldwater (R) P: Goldwater
1968: McCarthy (I) P: McCarthy
1972: McGovern (D) P: McGovern
1976: McCarthy (I) P: Carter
1980: Carter (D) P: Carter
1984: Bergland  (L) P: Hart
1988: Paul (L) P: Kemp
1992: Perot (I) P: Buchanan
1996: Browne (L) P: Buchanan
2000: Buchanan (Ref) P: McCain 
2004: Nader (I) P: Dean
2008: Nader (I) P: Paul

Ha ha, you're all over the place. 

Wait a minute, you would vote Stevenson in the primaries in '56 and then vote against him in the general?
Why?

There was no real Republican primary that year to challenge Eisenhower.

Yet you vote for Stevenson in '52..........
What difference was there between '52 and '56 that made you prefer Eisenhower the second time around?

[Mechaman]

New List

1789: George Washington and George Clinton
1792: George Washington and Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)
1796: Aaron Burr (Democratic-Republican)
1800: Aaron Burr (Democratic Republican)
1804: Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)
1808: James Monroe (Democratic-Republican)
1812: DeWitt Clinton (Federalist)
1816: James Monroe (Democratic-Republican)
1820: James Madison (Democratic-Republican)
1824: John Q. Adams (Democratic-Republican)
1828: John Q. Adams (National Republican)
1832: Andrew Jackson, the other choices are much worse(Democratic)
1836: Martin Van Buren (Democratic)
1840: Martin Van Buren (Democratic)
1844: James G. Birney (Liberty)
1848: Martin Van Buren (Free Soil)
1852: John P. Hale (Free Soil)
1856: John C. Fremont (Republican)
1860: Stephen A. Douglas (Northern Democratic)
1864: George B. McClellan (Democratic)
1868: Horatio Seymour (Democratic)
1872: Horace Greeley (Liberal Republican)
1876: Samuel J. Tilden (Democratic)
1880: Winfield Hancock (Democratic)
1884: Grover Cleveland (Democratic)
1888: Grover Cleveland (Democratic)
1892: Grover Cleveland (Democratic)
1896: John M. Palmer (National Democratic)
1900: William McKinley (Republican)
1904: Alton B. Parker (Democratic)
1908: William H. Taft (Republican)
1912: William H. Taft (Republican)
1916: Charles Hughes (Republican)
1920: Warren G. Harding (Republican)
1924: Calvin Coolidge (Republican)
1928: Alfred E. Smith (Democratic)
1932: Sucide
1936: Alfred Landon (Republican)
1940: Wendell Wilkie (Republican)
1944: Thomas Dewey (Republican)
1948: Thomas Dewey (Republican)
1952: Adlai Stevenson (Democratic)
1956: Adlai Stevenson (Democratic)
1960: John F. Kennedy (Democratic)
1964: Goldwater (Republican), pray to god he isn't serious about nuking Vietnam
1968: Eugene McCarthy (Independent)
1972: George McGovern (Democratic)
1976: Eugene McCarthy (Independent)
1980: Edward Clark (Libertarian)
1984: Robert Bergland (Libertarian)
1988: Ron Paul (Libertarian)
1992: Andre Marrou (Libertarian)
1996: Harry Browne (Libertarian)
2000: Harry Browne (Libertarian)
2004: Michael Badnarik (Libertarian)
2008: Stay home.

[Mechaman]

New List

1789: George Washington and George Clinton
1792: George Washington and Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)
1796: Aaron Burr (Democratic-Republican)
1800: Aaron Burr (Democratic Republican)
1804: Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)
1808: James Monroe (Democratic-Republican)
1812: DeWitt Clinton (Federalist)
1816: James Monroe (Democratic-Republican)
1820: James Madison (Democratic-Republican)
1824: John Q. Adams (Democratic-Republican)
1828: John Q. Adams (National Republican)
1832: Andrew Jackson, the other choices are much worse(Democratic)
1836: Martin Van Buren (Democratic)
1840: Martin Van Buren (Democratic)
1844: James G. Birney (Liberty)
1848: Martin Van Buren (Free Soil)
1852: John P. Hale (Free Soil)
1856: John C. Fremont (Republican)
1860: Stephen A. Douglas (Northern Democratic)
1864: George B. McClellan (Democratic)
1868: Horatio Seymour (Democratic)
1872: Horace Greeley (Liberal Republican)
1876: Samuel J. Tilden (Democratic)
1880: Winfield Hancock (Democratic)
1884: Grover Cleveland (Democratic)
1888: Grover Cleveland (Democratic)
1892: Grover Cleveland (Democratic)
1896: John M. Palmer (National Democratic)
1900: William McKinley (Republican)
1904: Alton B. Parker (Democratic)
1908: William H. Taft (Republican)
1912: William H. Taft (Republican)
1916: Charles Hughes (Republican)
1920: Warren G. Harding (Republican)
1924: Calvin Coolidge (Republican)
1928: Alfred E. Smith (Democratic)
1932: Sucide
1936: Alfred Landon (Republican)
1940: Wendell Wilkie (Republican)
1944: Thomas Dewey (Republican)
1948: Thomas Dewey (Republican)
1952: Adlai Stevenson (Democratic)
1956: Adlai Stevenson (Democratic)
1960: John F. Kennedy (Democratic)
1964: Goldwater (Republican), pray to god he isn't serious about nuking Vietnam
1968: Eugene McCarthy (Independent)
1972: George McGovern (Democratic)
1976: Eugene McCarthy (Independent)
1980: Edward Clark (Libertarian)
1984: Robert Bergland (Libertarian)
1988: Ron Paul (Libertarian)
1992: Andre Marrou (Libertarian)
1996: Harry Browne (Libertarian)
2000: Harry Browne (Libertarian)
2004: Michael Badnarik (Libertarian)
2008: Stay home.

Didn't you actually vote for Obama in 2008?

Damn it quit reminding me.
In my defense the Oklahoma fascist voting laws made me do it.  My main motivation for even showing up was so I could vote against my fascist representatives (James Inhofe Senate, and John Sullivan OK-1).  And with John McCain practically promising World War III, Obama seemed like the lesser of.

[Mechaman]

Note: Taking into consideration the campaigns of the candidates and without hindsight of future.

1789: George Washington (Independent-Virginia)/George Clinton (Anti Federalist-New York)
1792: George Washington (Independent-Virginia)/George Clinton (Democratic Republican-New York)
1796: Aaron Burr (Democratic Republican-New York)/Thomas Jefferson (Democratic Republican-Virginia)
1800: Aaron Burr (Democratic Republican-New York)/Thomas Jefferson (Democratic Republican-Virginia)
1804: Thomas Jefferson (Democratic Republican-Virginia)/George Clinton (Democratic Republican-New York)
1808: George Clinton (Democratic Republican-New York)/James Monroe (Democratic Republican-Virginia)
1812: DeWitt Clinton (Anti War Republican-New York)/Eldbridge Gerry (Democratic Republican-Massachusetts)
1816: James Monroe (Democratic Republican-Virginia)/Daniel D. Tompkins (Democratic Republican-New York)
1820: James Monroe (Democratic Republican-Virginia)/Daniel D. Tompkins (Democratic Republican-New York)
1824: William Crawford (Democratic Republican-Georgia)/Nathaniel Macon (Democratic Republican-North Carolina)
1828: Andrew Jackson (Democratic-Tennessee)/John Calhoun (Democratic-South Carolina)*
1832: William Wirt (Anti Masonic-Maryland)/Amos Ellmaker (Anti Masonic-Pennsylvania)
1836: William H. Harrison (Whig-Ohio)/Francis Granger (Whig-New York)
1840: William H. Harrison (Whig-Ohio)/John Tyler (Whig-Virginia)
1844: James G. Birney (Liberty-New York)/Thomas Morris (Liberty-Ohio)
1848: Martin Van Buren (Free Soil-New York)/Charles F. Adams (Free Soil-Massachusetts)
1852: John Hale (Free Soil-New Hampshire)/George Julian (Free Soil-Indiana)
1856: John Freemont (Republican-California)/John L. Dayton (Republican-New Jersey)
1860: Stephen A. Douglas (Democratic-Illinois)/Herschel A. Johnson (Democratic-Georgia)*
1864: George B. McClellan (Democratic-New Jersey)/George Pendleton (Democratic-Ohio)
1868: Horatio A. Seymour (Democratic-New York)/Francis Blair, Jr. (Democratic-Missouri)
1872: Horace Greeley (Liberal Republican-New York)/B. Gratz Brown (Liberal Republican-Missouri)
1876: Samuel Tilden (Democratic-New York)/Thomas A. Hendricks (Democratic-Indiana)
1880: Winfield Hancock (Democratic-Pennsylvania)/William English (Democratic-Indiana)
1884: Grover Cleveland (Democratic-New York)/Thomas A. Hendricks (Democratic-Indiana)
1888: Grover Cleveland (Democratic-New York)/Allen Thurman (Democratic-Ohio)
1892: Grover Cleveland (Democratic-New York)/Adlai Stevenson (Democratic-Illinois)
1896: John M. Palmer (Gold Democratic-Illinois)/Simon B. Buckner (Gold Democratic-Kentucky)
1900: William J. Bryan (Democratic-Nebraska)/Adlai Stevenson (Democratic-Illinois)*
1904: Alton B. Parker (Democratic-New York)/Henry Davis (Democratic-West Virginia)
1908: William J. Bryan (Democratic-Nebraska)/John Kern (Democratic-Indiana)*
1912: Woodrow Wilson (Democratic-New Jersey)/Thomas Marshall (Democratic-Indiana)**
1916: Charles E. Hughes (Republican-New York)/Charles Fairbanks (Republican-Indiana)
1920: Warren G. Harding (Republican-Ohio)/Calvin Coolidge (Republican-Massachusetts)
1924: Calvin Coolidge (Republican-Massachusetts)/Charles Dawes (Republican-Illinois)
1928: Alfred E. Smith (Democratic-New York)/Joseph T. Robinson (Democratic-Arkansas)
1932: Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic-New York)/John Garner (Democratic-Texas)**
1936: Alfred Landon (Republican-Kansas)/Frank Knox (Republican-Illinois)*
1940: Wendell Willkie (Republican-New York)/Charles McNary (Republican-Oregon)**
1944: Write-in: Alcohol (Colorado)/Marijuana (Oregon)
1948: Write-in: Mickey Mouse (Disney-California)/George Bailey (Sanity-New York)
1952: Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower (Republican-New York)/Richard Nixon (Republican-California)
1956: Adlai E. Stevenson (Democratic-Illinois)/Estes Kefauver (Democratic-Tennessee)*
1960: John F. Kennedy (Democratic-Massachusetts)/Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic-Texas)**
1964: Barry M. Goldwater (Republican-Arizona)/William Miller (Republican-New York)
1968: Dick Gregory (Peace and Freedom-Missouri)/Mark Lane (Peace and Freedom-New York)
1972: George McGovern (Democratic-South Dakota)/Sargent Shriver (Democratic-Maryland)
1976: James Carter (Democratic-Georgia)/Walter Mondale (Democratic-Minnesota)
1980: Ed Clark (Libertarian-California)/David H. Koch (Libertarian-Kansas)
1984: David Bergland (Libertarian-California)/Jim Lewis (Libertarian-Connecticut)
1988: Ron Paul (Libertarian-Texas)/Andre V. Marrou (Libertarian-Alaska)
1992: Andre V. Marrou (Libertarian-Alaska)/Nancy Lord (Libertarian-Nevada)
1996: Harry Browne (Libertarian-Tennessee)/Jo Jorgensen (Libertarian-South Carolina)
2000: Write-in: Ronald McDonald (Missouri)/Mickey Mouse (California)
2004: Michael Badnarik (Libertarian-Texas)/Richard Campagna (Libertarian-Iowa)
2008: Write-in Ron Paul (Texas)/Steve Kubby (California)

NOTES:
*Lesser evil
**Barely lesser evil, but still lesser........until the next year when it turns out this guy is WAAYY over his head.

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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.

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It's more of a difference in the Democratic candidate actually.
Buchanan would've come across as too pro-slavery for me to feel comfortable voting for in 1856.  Plus, no offense to Millard Fillmore (who was a total moderate hero) but I sure as hell wouldn't vote for the party whose platform was bigoted against my cultural background.  So, yeah I would end up voting for the perceived "radical" John Freemont in 1856.

In 1860 with Stephen Douglas being nominated, an advocate of "popular sovereignty" I would be more comfortable going over to the Northern Democratic side.  I might be favorable to the Constitutional Union side also, though a bit wary of the presence of former Whgis there.  A vote for Breckenridge or Lincoln I would think would be a vote towards Civil War, something that 1860 me wouldn't want to happen.

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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.

There was fear of that happening in 1856, but the conditions in place weren't as drastic.  For one, there was a united Democratic ticket and not one split between North and South.  And the Democratic strength in the Senate was strong enough to moderate any attempt at "radical" legislation by the Republicans, who would also be greatly limited by other parties in the "Opposition" who viewed the issue os slavery with a distaste.  Whoever said "Whigs were pro-choice on slavery" had the right idea.

I think that despite the Whig Party's economic nationalism I probably would've been a Whig Psrty member at certain points in early; American history due to a combination of factors.  For one, King Jackson's presidency would've left me bitter at the Democrats and I would've viewed William Harrison as the "common man's candidate" in 1836 and 1840.  I have nothing against Martin Van Buren personally, but I would've thought like many of my time that he was "heir appointed" by Jackson to succeed him.

I probably would've been a Hugh White Whig with anti-slavery sympathies.  IN other words, a former Northern Democratic Republican who could never fit into the parties that existed from 1828-1860.

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Mecha: You are aware that John Frémont was a murderer:

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The banksters of course waged the same sort of press campaign against Jackson as they would against a hypothetical President Ron Paul, but I'd expect you at least not to fall for that...

Oh right, so the banksters lied about Andrew Jackson giving State's Rights the finger in the Nullification Crisis, forcibly moving tens of thousands of people halfway across the country, and expanding the Spoils System that would lead to "appointment by familiarity" instead of appointment by qualification?

The two things Andrew Jackson did right was advocating universal white male suffrage and disabling the National Bank.  Doesn't exactly make him a Wilson (quite the opposite in a way actually), but not exactly a Coolidge either.

[Mechaman]

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.

Well..............Masons are still freaky freak freaks.

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Once again, I'll comment that it's somewhat laughable if someone who isn't either a WASP or black to think they'd have been a Republican before 1920 or so.  19th-century Republicans were fond of calling out the police or other goons to billy-club you away from the polling stations.

(Assuming you got to the polling station, the fact that you deposited a pre-filled out non-secret ballot would have your evident English illiteracy swiftly mocked).

McKinley actually did pretty well with Catholics and Lutherans, so you should adjust to say "before 1896 or so".

McKinley got c. 30%, which was a huge improvement but nothing to call home about.

(Also, I should obviously have amended my statement to say that German-Americans were a swing group in that period).

That, and it really helped that a bible thumping Prohibitionist Silverite was the Democratic nominee.

Within four years with the McKinley flirtation with Imperialism, a lot of the voters who held their noses and voted McKinley returned to the home base.

I would even say 1920 would be a bit premature guess of when large numbers of Catholics started becoming regular Republicans. I mean, even during the Coolidge years many Catholics were still staunch Democrats on the state and local levels of governance.

It has been only real recently (probably the 1970s or the 1980s or so) that it's become normal for there to be Catholic Republicans.  It was less weird for there to be Republican Southerners sooner than it was for there to be Republican Catholics (in general).

NOTE:  What I mean by "Republican Catholics" are Catholics who go as far as to register Republican, not necessarily Catholics voting for Republican Presidential nominees.

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FTR, it's estimated McKinley may have gotten as mch as 45% of all Catholics, up quite much from the 20-25% that Harrison got in 1892.

That's including German Catholics, who as noted earlier had very different voting habits (also, there's still no possible way he got that much, just looking at the map).

The 45% figure could be true is if there was a MASSIVE sitout by Irish Catholics.  In other words, you would need 1920 to happen.  Looking at the map this is a little inconclusive as Bryan seems to have gotten God numbers in the Rocky Mountain West while underperforming in the Northeast.

But, McKinley's appeal to Catholics shouldn't be underestimated.  A number of Catholics were advancing to the middle business class at the time after all.  On my previous point, some lace curtain middle/upper class Catholics might've voted McKinley in fear of Bryan's perceived left wing radicalism.

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I'm actually really surprised so many of you prefer the Democratic-Republican party to the Federalists.  Washington was a federalist.  I honestly feel that if the Adams family was able to beat Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, the United States would have been a much more progressive country and slavery would have probably been abolished a lot sooner.  Also I would never vote for someone who did something as despicable as what Jefferson did in his personal life.

I agree that the Federalists were better on the issues than the Democratic-Republicans.  And John Quincy Adams was easily the best person to be elected president between Washington and Lincoln.  But, at least as far as 1800 goes, I'd probably be a single-issue voter and that issue would be kicking out the person who signed the abominable Alien and Sedition Acts, the most blatantly unconstitutional piece of legislation America has ever enacted.  (And at such a fragile time, too!)

Really, the only true reason somebody who lived today would have to vote for the Federalists would be economic positions (mostly trade).  It is a great insult to my intelligence to suggest that the Federalists were "the anti-slavery" party, considering the amount of plantation owning elites (think the Pinckneys) they had in their party.  Also, the Democratic Republicans had their own pretty fair share of anti-slavery advocates (mostly in the North).  As for "progressive", well I guess if you favor a strongly centralized government where only a tiny highly educated elite has the right to democracy, that would be considered progressive.
But no, let's act like the only issue that existed was slavery, shall we?

Also, James Buchanan, yeah the great evil slavery loving President, started out as a Federalist at a time when the party was well beyond the point of no return.

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Probably vote straight GOP since 1856.

You do realize that the GOP and the Democrats have completely switched on most issues since this time?

That's a cute myth liberals like to tell themselves so that they can forget that Democrats championed racism for 130 years.

Yes, and the GOP's tactics in the North didn't at all involve outright racism against "the lowly" races of Europe combined with a self-righteous Protestant crusade against "the Unholy Church."  And the Northern Republican Parties didn't at all embrace the Ku Klux Klan when they adopted bleedingheart anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic rhetoric and causes.
ANd this is even before we get into the whole "Southern Strategy" bit.

Of course, when it's coming from the enlightened, none dare call it racism or hypocrisy!

EDIT: Of course this isn't to say that the Democrats weren't campaigning off of racism, but let us not act like it was a one sided affair or that Republican bigotry was at all justified.  It was not, no matter how anti-black many paddies were or how many Catholics obeyed political machines.  Point is this is a pathetic debating point and you all need to look at the parties through more than cheap rosy tinted colored glasses through the lens of a few issues.