How would you have voted, 1900-2016?

[Alabama_Indy10]

1900:  bryan
1904:  TR
1908:  Bryan
1912:  TR
1916:  Wilson
1920:  Cox
1924:  Davis
1928:  Smith
1932:  FDR
1936:  FDR
1940:  FDR
1944:  FDR
1948:  Truman
1952:  Stevenson
1956:  Eisenhower
1960:  JFK
1964:  LBJ
1968:  HHH
1972:  McGovern
1976:  Carter
1980:  Abstained for President
1984:  Mondale
1988:  Dukakis
1992:  Bill Clinton
1996:  Bill Clinton
2000:  GWB
2004:  Kerry
2008:  McCain
2012:  Obama
2016:  Trump

The Italicized choices are how I actually voted.  If I had to do it over, I'd have voted for Carter in 1980, Perot in 1992, Dole in 1996, and POSSIBLY Romney in 2012. 

Hmm.. I’m just curious.. why McGovern?

[Fuzzy Bear]

1900:  bryan
1904:  TR
1908:  Bryan
1912:  TR
1916:  Wilson
1920:  Cox
1924:  Davis
1928:  Smith
1932:  FDR
1936:  FDR
1940:  FDR
1944:  FDR
1948:  Truman
1952:  Stevenson
1956:  Eisenhower
1960:  JFK
1964:  LBJ
1968:  HHH
1972:  McGovern
1976:  Carter
1980:  Abstained for President
1984:  Mondale
1988:  Dukakis
1992:  Bill Clinton
1996:  Bill Clinton
2000:  GWB
2004:  Kerry
2008:  McCain
2012:  Obama
2016:  Trump

The Italicized choices are how I actually voted.  If I had to do it over, I'd have voted for Carter in 1980, Perot in 1992, Dole in 1996, and POSSIBLY Romney in 2012. 

Hmm.. I’m just curious.. why McGovern?

In my youth, I was a partisan Democrat.  I was 15 years old in 1972, and as politically aware as some of our younger posters here.  I was quite liberal, and I grew up in a home where my mother and grandmother were Democrats and Nixon was the enemy. 

I was also very much against the Vietnam War and I believed that Nixon was dragging it out.  The war had been going on for so long in 1972 that many of my graduating class wondered if this thing was ever going to end, and whether or not we'd be fighting there.  That thought was a bit alarmist, but in 1972, the war in Vietnam had been going on since 1965.  I was accustomed to seeing weekly reports of over 1,000 Americans killed in a weak of fighting many weeks.  The older brother of a kid down the street was a long-held POW by the North Vietnamese, and older teens sweated out their draft status.  McGovern promised to end the war.  He'd do the one thing I cared about the most; much of the rest was up in the air, as I wasn't anti-military and I was somewhat conservative for a Democrat on many issues even then. 

I also had a sense of partisanship, and I believed Democrats ought to vote for Democrats if they believed in the party and wanted its objectives to be advanced.  As I was once that way, I'm not going to be critical of people who are hyper-partisan.  I was that way once.  Obviously, I'm not that way anymore.  I've also come to believe, over time, that the McGovern-Fraser commission did more damage to the party with its reforms than anyone could calculate; they cost the Democrats their status as the majority party, as much as anything else.

[OSR stands with Israel]

1900:  bryan
1904:  TR
1908:  Bryan
1912:  TR
1916:  Wilson
1920:  Cox
1924:  Davis
1928:  Smith
1932:  FDR
1936:  FDR
1940:  FDR
1944:  FDR
1948:  Truman
1952:  Stevenson
1956:  Eisenhower
1960:  JFK
1964:  LBJ
1968:  HHH
1972:  McGovern
1976:  Carter
1980:  Abstained for President
1984:  Mondale
1988:  Dukakis
1992:  Bill Clinton
1996:  Bill Clinton
2000:  GWB
2004:  Kerry
2008:  McCain
2012:  Obama
2016:  Trump

The Italicized choices are how I actually voted.  If I had to do it over, I'd have voted for Carter in 1980, Perot in 1992, Dole in 1996, and POSSIBLY Romney in 2012. 

Hmm.. I’m just curious.. why McGovern?

In my youth, I was a partisan Democrat.  I was 15 years old in 1972, and as politically aware as some of our younger posters here.  I was quite liberal, and I grew up in a home where my mother and grandmother were Democrats and Nixon was the enemy. 

I was also very much against the Vietnam War and I believed that Nixon was dragging it out.  The war had been going on for so long in 1972 that many of my graduating class wondered if this thing was ever going to end, and whether or not we'd be fighting there.  That thought was a bit alarmist, but in 1972, the war in Vietnam had been going on since 1965.  I was accustomed to seeing weekly reports of over 1,000 Americans killed in a weak of fighting many weeks.  The older brother of a kid down the street was a long-held POW by the North Vietnamese, and older teens sweated out their draft status.  McGovern promised to end the war.  He'd do the one thing I cared about the most; much of the rest was up in the air, as I wasn't anti-military and I was somewhat conservative for a Democrat on many issues even then. 

I also had a sense of partisanship, and I believed Democrats ought to vote for Democrats if they believed in the party and wanted its objectives to be advanced.  As I was once that way, I'm not going to be critical of people who are hyper-partisan.  I was that way once.  Obviously, I'm not that way anymore.  I've also come to believe, over time, that the McGovern-Fraser commission did more damage to the party with its reforms than anyone could calculate; they cost the Democrats their status as the majority party, as much as anything else.

How would you have voted in elections from 1824-1896

[Fuzzy Bear]

1900:  bryan
1904:  TR
1908:  Bryan
1912:  TR
1916:  Wilson
1920:  Cox
1924:  Davis
1928:  Smith
1932:  FDR
1936:  FDR
1940:  FDR
1944:  FDR
1948:  Truman
1952:  Stevenson
1956:  Eisenhower
1960:  JFK
1964:  LBJ
1968:  HHH
1972:  McGovern
1976:  Carter
1980:  Abstained for President
1984:  Mondale
1988:  Dukakis
1992:  Bill Clinton
1996:  Bill Clinton
2000:  GWB
2004:  Kerry
2008:  McCain
2012:  Obama
2016:  Trump

The Italicized choices are how I actually voted.  If I had to do it over, I'd have voted for Carter in 1980, Perot in 1992, Dole in 1996, and POSSIBLY Romney in 2012. 

Hmm.. I’m just curious.. why McGovern?

In my youth, I was a partisan Democrat.  I was 15 years old in 1972, and as politically aware as some of our younger posters here.  I was quite liberal, and I grew up in a home where my mother and grandmother were Democrats and Nixon was the enemy. 

I was also very much against the Vietnam War and I believed that Nixon was dragging it out.  The war had been going on for so long in 1972 that many of my graduating class wondered if this thing was ever going to end, and whether or not we'd be fighting there.  That thought was a bit alarmist, but in 1972, the war in Vietnam had been going on since 1965.  I was accustomed to seeing weekly reports of over 1,000 Americans killed in a weak of fighting many weeks.  The older brother of a kid down the street was a long-held POW by the North Vietnamese, and older teens sweated out their draft status.  McGovern promised to end the war.  He'd do the one thing I cared about the most; much of the rest was up in the air, as I wasn't anti-military and I was somewhat conservative for a Democrat on many issues even then. 

I also had a sense of partisanship, and I believed Democrats ought to vote for Democrats if they believed in the party and wanted its objectives to be advanced.  As I was once that way, I'm not going to be critical of people who are hyper-partisan.  I was that way once.  Obviously, I'm not that way anymore.  I've also come to believe, over time, that the McGovern-Fraser commission did more damage to the party with its reforms than anyone could calculate; they cost the Democrats their status as the majority party, as much as anything else.

How would you have voted in elections from 1824-1896

1824 - Jackson
1828 - Jackson
1832 - Jackson
1836 - Van Buren
1840 - Harrison
1844 - Polk
1848 - Van Buren (Free Soil)
1852 - Scott
1856 - Fremont
1860 - Lincoln
1864 - Lincoln
1868 - Grant
1872 - Greeley
1876 - Hayes
1880 - Hancock
1884 - Blaine
1888 - Harrison
1892 - Harrison
1896 - McKinley

These selections represent a change of heart over the years.  I have come to see Lincoln as perhaps our greatest President; the burdens he bore were equalled POSSIBLY by FDR, who did not have the sort of civil war and national division Lincoln faced.  At one time I would have favored Horation Seymour and Samuel Tilden in 1868 and 1876.  Nowadays, I believe that to be a mistake; Seymour was one of Lincoln's most steadfast opponents during the Civil War and it is likely that if Tilden had been elected, the deal made with Wade Hampton to end Reconstruction would have been even worse for blacks, and for the North in general. 

I have come to regard Grant as an unfairly maligned President; not the failure he has been made out to be.  I have come to regard Cleveland as a scumbag, a rich man's President who treated women like crap.  Benjamin Harrison was not a good President, but I would prefer him to Cleveland; I would have even preferred Blaine to Cleveland, and Blaine was a scumbag as well.

I like William Jennings Bryan, but I would have voted for McKinley; he was a progressive Republican and rightly considered The First Modern President.  He is grievously underrated by historians, and would be ranked as one of the 10 best Presidents had he not been assassinated less than a year into his second term. 

[OSR stands with Israel]

1900:  bryan
1904:  TR
1908:  Bryan
1912:  TR
1916:  Wilson
1920:  Cox
1924:  Davis
1928:  Smith
1932:  FDR
1936:  FDR
1940:  FDR
1944:  FDR
1948:  Truman
1952:  Stevenson
1956:  Eisenhower
1960:  JFK
1964:  LBJ
1968:  HHH
1972:  McGovern
1976:  Carter
1980:  Abstained for President
1984:  Mondale
1988:  Dukakis
1992:  Bill Clinton
1996:  Bill Clinton
2000:  GWB
2004:  Kerry
2008:  McCain
2012:  Obama
2016:  Trump

The Italicized choices are how I actually voted.  If I had to do it over, I'd have voted for Carter in 1980, Perot in 1992, Dole in 1996, and POSSIBLY Romney in 2012. 

Hmm.. I’m just curious.. why McGovern?

In my youth, I was a partisan Democrat.  I was 15 years old in 1972, and as politically aware as some of our younger posters here.  I was quite liberal, and I grew up in a home where my mother and grandmother were Democrats and Nixon was the enemy. 

I was also very much against the Vietnam War and I believed that Nixon was dragging it out.  The war had been going on for so long in 1972 that many of my graduating class wondered if this thing was ever going to end, and whether or not we'd be fighting there.  That thought was a bit alarmist, but in 1972, the war in Vietnam had been going on since 1965.  I was accustomed to seeing weekly reports of over 1,000 Americans killed in a weak of fighting many weeks.  The older brother of a kid down the street was a long-held POW by the North Vietnamese, and older teens sweated out their draft status.  McGovern promised to end the war.  He'd do the one thing I cared about the most; much of the rest was up in the air, as I wasn't anti-military and I was somewhat conservative for a Democrat on many issues even then. 

I also had a sense of partisanship, and I believed Democrats ought to vote for Democrats if they believed in the party and wanted its objectives to be advanced.  As I was once that way, I'm not going to be critical of people who are hyper-partisan.  I was that way once.  Obviously, I'm not that way anymore.  I've also come to believe, over time, that the McGovern-Fraser commission did more damage to the party with its reforms than anyone could calculate; they cost the Democrats their status as the majority party, as much as anything else.

How would you have voted in elections from 1824-1896

1824 - Jackson
1828 - Jackson
1832 - Jackson
1836 - Van Buren
1840 - Harrison
1844 - Polk
1848 - Van Buren (Free Soil)
1852 - Scott
1856 - Fremont
1860 - Lincoln
1864 - Lincoln
1868 - Grant
1872 - Greeley
1876 - Hayes
1880 - Hancock
1884 - Blaine
1888 - Harrison
1892 - Harrison
1896 - McKinley

These selections represent a change of heart over the years.  I have come to see Lincoln as perhaps our greatest President; the burdens he bore were equalled POSSIBLY by FDR, who did not have the sort of civil war and national division Lincoln faced.  At one time I would have favored Horation Seymour and Samuel Tilden in 1868 and 1876.  Nowadays, I believe that to be a mistake; Seymour was one of Lincoln's most steadfast opponents during the Civil War and it is likely that if Tilden had been elected, the deal made with Wade Hampton to end Reconstruction would have been even worse for blacks, and for the North in general. 

I have come to regard Grant as an unfairly maligned President; not the failure he has been made out to be.  I have come to regard Cleveland as a scumbag, a rich man's President who treated women like crap.  Benjamin Harrison was not a good President, but I would prefer him to Cleveland; I would have even preferred Blaine to Cleveland, and Blaine was a scumbag as well.

I like William Jennings Bryan, but I would have voted for McKinley; he was a progressive Republican and rightly considered The First Modern President.  He is grievously underrated by historians, and would be ranked as one of the 10 best Presidents had he not been assassinated less than a year into his second term. 

Pretty surprised about 1876-1896  though I disagree about McKinley .


McKinley was basically a more Hawkish version of Coolidge

[UlmerFudd]

1900: McKinley
1904: Roosevelt
1908: Taft
1912: Taft
1916: Hughes
1920: Harding
1924: Coolidge
1928: Smith
1932: Hoover
1936: Landon
1940: Willkie
1944: Roosevelt
1948: Dewey
1952: Eisenhower
1956: Eisenhower
1960: Nixon
1964: Goldwater
1968: Nixon
1972: Nixon
1976: Ford
1980: Reagan
1984: Reagan
1988: Bush
1992: Bush
1996: Clinton
2000: Bush
2004: Bush
2008: McCain
2012: Johnson
2016: Johnson

[OneJ]

1900: Bryan
1904: Roosevelt
1908: Taft
1912: Roosevelt
1916: Wilson
1920: Cox
1924: Coolidge (or La Follette)
1928: Harding
1932: FDR
1936: FDR
1940: FDR
1944: FDR
1948: Truman
1952: Eisenhower
1956: Eisenhower
1960: JFK
1964: FDR
1968: Humphrey
1972: McGovern
1976: Carter
1980: Carter
1984: Mondale
1988: Dukakis
1992: Clinton
1996: Clinton
2000: Gore
2004: Kerry
2008: Obama
2012: Obama
2016: HRC

[sanarchist]

No hindsight.
1900: Bryan
1904: Roosevelt
1908: Taft
1912: Roosevelt
1916: Wilson
1920: Cox
1924: La Follette
1928: Smith
1932: Roosevelt
1936: Roosevelt
1940: Roosevelt
1944: Roosevelt
1948: Truman
1952: Stevenson
1956: Stevenson
1960: Kennedy
1964: Johnson
1968: Humphrey
1972: McGovern
1976: Carter
1980: Carter
1984: Mondale
1988: Dukakis
1992: Clinton
1996: Clinton
2000: Gore
2004: Kerry
2008: Obama
2012: Obama
2016: Clinton
2020: Whoever

[DPKdebator]

Without hindsight:
1900: William Jennings Bryan
1904: Teddy Roosevelt
1908: William Howard Taft
1912: Teddy Roosevelt
1916: Charles Evan Hughes
1920: Warren G. Harding
1924: Calvin Coolidge
1928: Al Smith
1932: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1936: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1940: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1944: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1948: Thomas Dewey
1952: Dwight Eisenhower
1956: Dwight Eisenhower
1960: John F. Kennedy
1964: Lyndon B. Johnson
1968: Richard Nixon
1972: Richard Nixon
1976: Jimmy Carter
1980: John B. Anderson
1984: Ronald Reagan
1988: Michael Dukakis
1992: Ross Perot
1996: Bill Clinton
2000: George W. Bush
2004: George W. Bush
2008: Barack Obama
2012: Mitt Romney
2016: Donald Trump

Republicans: 15 times
Democrats: 12 times
Independents: 3 times

[Alabama_Indy10]

1900: William Jennings Bryan
1904: Theodore Roosevelt
1908: William Jennings Bryan
1912: Woodrow Wilson
1916: Woodrow Wilson
1920: James Cox
1924: Calvin Coolidge
1928: Al Smith
1932: Franklin Roosevelt
1936: Franklin Roosevelt
1940: Franklin Roosevelt
1944: Franklin Roosevelt
1948: Harry Truman
1952: Dwight Eisenhower
1956: Dwight Eisenhower
1960: John F. Kennedy
1964: Lyndon Johnson
1968: Richard Nixon
1972: Richard Nixon
1976: Jimmy Carter
1980: Ronald Reagan
1984: Ronald Reagan
1988: George H.W. Bush
1992: George H.W. Bush
1996: Bill Clinton
2000: George W. Bush
2004: George W. Bush
2008: John McCain
2012: Mitt Romney
2016: Donald Trump

[Sumner 1868]

Doing pre-1900 instead because politics was more interesting. I probably couldn't have voted until the 1820s or so, so we can start there.

1828: John Quincy Adams
1832: William Wirt
1836: William Harrison
1840: William Harrison
1844: James Birney
1848: Martin van Buren
1852: John Hale
1856: John Fremont
1860: Abraham Lincoln
1864: Abraham Lincoln
1868: Ulysses Grant
1872: Ulysses Grant
1876: Rutherford Hayes
1880: James Weaver
1884: Benjamin Butler
1888: Alson Streeter
1892: James Weaver
1896: not sure

[Sailor Haumea]

1900: McKinley
1904: Roosevelt
1908: Bryan
1912: Wilson
1916: Hughes
1920: Cox
1924: Dear God...Davis is the least bad, I suppose.
1928: Smith
1932: Roosevelt
1936: Roosevelt
1940: Willkie
1944: Roosevelt
1948: Truman
1952: Eisenhower
1956: Eisenhower
1960: Nixon
1964: Johnson
1968: Humphrey
1972: Nixon
1976: Ford
1980: Reagan
1984: Reagan
1988: Bush
1992: Bush
1996: Clinton
2000: Gore
2004: Kerry
2008: McCain
2012: Obama
2016: Clinton

[Wazza [INACTIVE]]

1900: Mckinley
1904: Parker
1908: Taft
1912: Taft
1916: Hughes
1920: Harding
1924: Coolidge
1928: Hoover
1932: Hoover
1936: Landon
1940: Willkie
1944: Dewey
1948: Dewey (Taft in primaries/convention)
1952: Eisenhower (Taft in primaries/convention)
1956: Eisenhower
1960: Nixon
1964: Goldwater
1968: Nixon
1972: Nixon
1976: Ford (Reagan in primaries)
1980: Reagan
1984: Reagan
1988: Bush
1992: Perot
1996: Dole
2000: Bush
2004: Abstain
2008: McCain (Paul in primaries)
2012: Romney (Paul in primaries)
2016: Trump (Paul in primaries)

[progressive85]

1900: William Jennings Bryan
1904: Theodore Roosevelt
1908: Eugene V. Debs
1912: Theodore Roosevelt
1916: Allan Benson
1920: Eugene V. Debs
1924: Robert LaFollette
1928: Norman Thomas
1932: FDR
1936: FDR
1940: FDR
1944: FDR
1948: Harry S. Truman
1952: Dwight D. Eisenhower
1956: Dwight D. Eisenhower
1960: JFK
1964: LBJ
1968: Hubert H. Humphrey
1972: George McGovern
1976: Jimmy Carter
1980: Jimmy Carter
1984: Walter Mondale
1988: Michael Dukakis
1992: Ross Perot
1996: Bill Clinton
2000: Al Gore
2004: John Kerry (did vote for him)
2008: Barack Obama
2012: Barack Obama
2016: Hillary Rodham Clinton

[Some of My Best Friends Are Gay]

1900: McKinley
1904: Roosevelt
1908: Taft
1912: Taft
1916: Hughes
1920: Harding
1924: Coolidge
1928: Hoover
1932: Hoover
1936: Landon
1940: Dewey
1944: Undecided
1948: Dewey
1952: Eisenhower
1956: Eisenhower
1960: Nixon
1964: Goldwater
1968: Nixon
1972: Nixon
1976: Ford
1980: Reagan
1984: Reagan
1988: Bush
1992: Bush
1996: Dole
2000: Bush
2004: Bush
2008: McCain
2012: Romney
2016: Trump
2020: Trump

An admirable hack, I feel like a lot of Republicans would have been Dixiecrats had they been alive between 1900-1948.

[RINO Tom]

1900: McKinley
1904: Roosevelt
1908: Taft
1912: Taft
1916: Hughes
1920: Harding
1924: Coolidge
1928: Hoover
1932: Hoover
1936: Landon
1940: Dewey
1944: Undecided
1948: Dewey
1952: Eisenhower
1956: Eisenhower
1960: Nixon
1964: Goldwater
1968: Nixon
1972: Nixon
1976: Ford
1980: Reagan
1984: Reagan
1988: Bush
1992: Bush
1996: Dole
2000: Bush
2004: Bush
2008: McCain
2012: Romney
2016: Trump
2020: Trump

An admirable hack, I feel like a lot of Republicans would have been Dixiecrats had they been alive between 1900-1948.

I mean, maybe Southern ones ... not sure why you think any Northern ones would be.

[Rat]

1900: William McKinley
1904: Theodore Roosevelt
1908: William Howard Taft
1912: Theodore Roosevelt
1916: Charles Evans Hughes
1920: Warren G. Harding
1924: Calvin Coolidge
1928: Herbert Hoover
1932: Herbert Hoover
1936: Franklin Roosevelt
1940: Franklin Roosevelt
1944: Franklin Roosevelt
1948: Thomas Dewey
1952: Dwight Eisenhower
1956: Dwight Eisenhower
1960: John F. Kennedy
1964: Barry Goldwater
1968: Richard Nixon
1972: Richard Nixon
1976: Jimmy Carter
1980: Ronald Reagan
1984: Ronald Reagan
1988: George H. W. Bush
1992: Ross Perot
1996: Bill Clinton
2000: Al Gore
2004: John Kerry
2008: Barack Obama (McCain until Palin was selected)
2012: Mitt Romney
2016: Gary Johnson

[Cassandra]

In most of these years I probably would not have bothered voting. But for fun, I selected the best candidate each year when a palatable one was available, and wrote in a contemporary public figure in bad years.

1900: Eugene Debs
1904: Eugene Debs
1908: Eugene Debs
1912: Eugene Debs
1916: Allan Benson
1920: Eugene Debs
1924: Robert LaFollette
1928: Norman Thomas
1932: Franklin D. Roosevelt
1936: Norman Thomas
1940: Norman Thomas
1944: Norman Thomas
1948: Henry Wallace
1952: Vincent Hallinan
1956: Darlington Hoopes
1960: (Write in: A. Philip Randolph)
1964: (Write in: Malcolm X)
1968: (Write in: Eugene McCarthy)
1972: George McGovern
1976: Eugene McCarthy
1980: (Write in: Michael Harrington)
1984: (Write in: Jesse Jackson)
1988: (Write in: Jesse Jackson)
1992: (Write in: Noam Chomsky)
1996: Ralph Nader
2000: Ralph Nader
2004: (Write in: Noam Chomsky)
2008: (Write in: Noam Chomsky)
2012: (Write in: Noam Chomsky)
2016: (Write in: Bernie Sanders)

EDIT: For fun, here is 1840-1896

1840: James G. Birney (Liberty)
1844: James G. Birney (Liberty)
1848: Martin Van Buren (Free Soil)
1852: John P. Hale (Free Soil)
1856: John C. Fremont (Republican)
1860: Abraham Lincoln (Republican)
1864: Abraham Lincoln (Republican)
1868: Ulysses S. Grant (Republican)
1872: Ulysses S. Grant (Republican)
1876: Peter Cooper (Greenback)
1880: James Weaver (Greenback)
1884: Benjamin Butler (Greenback)
1888: Alson Streeter (Union Labor)
1892: James Weaver (Populist)
1896: Charles H. Matchett (Socialist Labor)

[OctoCube]

No Hindsight:

1900: William Jennings Bryan
1904: Theodore Roosevelt
1908: William Jennings Bryan
1912: Theodore Roosevelt
1916: Woodrow Wilson
1920: Warren Harding
1924: Calvin Coolidge
1928: Herbert Hoover
1932: Franklin Roosevelt
1936: Franklin Roosevelt
1940: Wendell Willkie
1944: Franklin Roosevelt
1948: Thomas Dewey
1952: Dwight Eisenhower
1956: Dwight Eisenhower
1960: John F. Kennedy
1964: Lyndon Johnson
1968: Richard Nixon
1972: Richard Nixon
1976: Gerald Ford
1980: Ronald Reagan
1984: Ronald Reagan
1988: Michael Dukakis
1992: Ross Perot
1996: Ross Perot
2000: George W. Bush
2004: John Kerry
2008: Barack Obama
2012: Mitt Romney
2016: Donald Trump

[Higgins]

1900: McKinley
1904: Roosevelt
1908: Taft
1912: Roosevelt
1916: Wilson
1920: Cox (write in Leonard Wood, my desired choice)
1924: Robert LaFollette
1928: Al Smith
1932: Franklin D. Roosevelt
1936: Franklin D. Roosevelt
1940: Franklin D. Roosevelt
1944: Franklin D. Roosevelt
1948: Thomas Dewey
1952: Earl Warren
1956: Ike
1960: John F. Kennedy
1964: Lyndon Johnson
1968: Richard Nixon
1972: write in: Hubert Humphrey
1976: Gerald Ford (write in: Ronald Reagan)
1980: Ronald Reagan
1984: Ronald Reagan
1988: George H.W. Bush
1992: Bill Clinton
1996: Bill Clinton
2000: Gore
2004: Write in Howard Dean
2008: Obama
2012: Obama
2016: Trump or Sanders

[Higgins]

In most of these years I probably would not have bothered voting. But for fun, I selected the best candidate each year when a palatable one was available, and wrote in a contemporary public figure in bad years.

1900: Eugene Debs
1904: Eugene Debs
1908: Eugene Debs
1912: Eugene Debs
1916: Allan Benson
1920: Eugene Debs
1924: Robert LaFollette
1928: Norman Thomas
1932: Franklin D. Roosevelt
1936: Norman Thomas
1940: Norman Thomas
1944: Norman Thomas
1948: Henry Wallace
1952: Vincent Hallinan
1956: Darlington Hoopes
1960: (Write in: A. Philip Randolph)
1964: (Write in: Malcolm X)
1968: (Write in: Eugene McCarthy)
1972: George McGovern
1976: Eugene McCarthy
1980: (Write in: Michael Harrington)
1984: (Write in: Jesse Jackson)
1988: (Write in: Jesse Jackson)
1992: (Write in: Noam Chomsky)
1996: Ralph Nader
2000: Ralph Nader
2004: (Write in: Noam Chomsky)
2008: (Write in: Noam Chomsky)
2012: (Write in: Noam Chomsky)
2016: (Write in: Bernie Sanders)

EDIT: For fun, here is 1840-1896

1840: James G. Birney (Liberty)
1844: James G. Birney (Liberty)
1848: Martin Van Buren (Free Soil)
1852: John P. Hale (Free Soil)
1856: John C. Fremont (Republican)
1860: Abraham Lincoln (Republican)
1864: Abraham Lincoln (Republican)
1868: Ulysses S. Grant (Republican)
1872: Ulysses S. Grant (Republican)
1876: Peter Cooper (Greenback)
1880: James Weaver (Greenback)
1884: Benjamin Butler (Greenback)
1888: Alson Streeter (Union Labor)
1892: James Weaver (Populist)
1896: Charles H. Matchett (Socialist Labor)

Malcolm X, the one "advocated for black supremacy, the separation of black and white Americans, and rejected the notion of the civil rights movement for its emphasis on racial integration."? That Malcolm X?

And such lovely racist gems as:

"It’s just like when you’ve got some coffee that’s too black, which means it’s too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won’t even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep.”

"Did the Zionists have the legal or moral right to invade Arab Palestine, uproot its Arab citizens from their homes and seize all Arab property for themselves just based on the "religious" claim that their forefathers lived there thousands of years ago? Only a thousand years ago the Moors lived in Spain. Would this give the Moors of today the legal and moral right to invade the Iberian Peninsula, drive out its Spanish citizens, and then set up a new Moroccan nation … where Spain used to be, as the European zionists have done to our Arab brothers and sisters in Palestine?..."

"You trust them (white Americans), and I don't. You studied what he wanted you to learn about him in schools. I studied him in the streets and in prison, where you see the truth."

"It's impossible for a white person to believe in capitalism and not believe in racism. You can't have capitalism without racism."

[MApatriot]

Splendid

[S019]

Ehh, here’s 1788-1896

1788: Washington
1792: Washington
1796: Adams
1800: Adams
1804: Pinckney (swing voter)
1808: Pinckney
1812: Clinton
1816: King
1820: Monroe
1824: Quincy Adams
1828: Quincy Adams
1832: Clay
1836: Webster (Harrison, if forced to pick from the top two)
1840: Harrison
1844: Clay
1848: Van Buren (Taylor, if forced to pick from the two major parties)
1852: Scott
1856: Fremont
1860: Lincoln
1864: Lincoln
1868: Grant
1872: Grant
1876: Hayes
1880: Garfield
1884: Blaine (swing voter)
1888: Cleveland
1892: Cleveland
1896: McKinley

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

1896: McKinley
1900: McKinley
1904: Roosevelt
1908: Taft
1912: Roosevelt
1916: Hughes
1920: Harding
1924: LaFollette
1928: Smith
1932: Roosevelt
1936: Roosevelt
1940: Roosevelt
1944: Roosevelt
1948: Wallace
1952: Eisenhower
1956: Eisenhower
1960: Kennedy
1964: Abstain
1968: Humphrey
1972: McGovern
1976: Carter
1980: Anderson
1984: Mondale
1988: Dukakis
1992: Clinton
1996: Clinton
2000: Gore
2004: Kerry
2008: Obama
2012: Obama
2016: Clinton

[P. Clodius Pulcher did nothing wrong]

Basically all Democrats except 1904, 1912, 1916, 1924, and 1948 (this is with No Hindsight™ of course)

2016: Hillary
2008/12: Obama
2004: Kerry
2000: Gore
1992/6: Clinton
1988: Dukakis
1984: Mondale
1976/80: Carter
1972: McGovern
1968: Humphrey
1964: LBJ
1960: JFK
1952/6: Stevenson
1948: Wallace
1932-44: FDR
1928: Smith
1924: La Follette
1920: Cox
1916: Benson
1912: Debs
1908: Bryan
1904: Debs
1900: Bryan