# Pre-Poll: Pick the next President
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [August 4, 2011, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469 "2011-08-04T15:17:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2011, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/1 "2011-08-04T15:17:19Z")
If you could choose the next President, who would you pick? Your candidate must be a natural born citizen and 35 years of age to qualify-after that, anything goes. I will use this thread to create a poll on the same subject.
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2011, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/2 "2011-08-04T15:20:57Z")
Me.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2011, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/3 "2011-08-04T15:22:17Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#):
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> Me.
What’s in it for me if you get the job?
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### Author:  [@ecoaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ecoaster)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/4 "2011-08-04T15:23:44Z")
Geoffrey Canada or Van Jones
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### Author:  [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/5 "2011-08-04T15:26:10Z")
[Bill the Cat](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LY1eTRkymVI/Te1_821p6CI/AAAAAAAAEkg/PGyKAa51ukE/s1600/bill-the-cat-bloom-conty-pictures.jpg).
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### Author:  [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/6 "2011-08-04T15:26:43Z")
Rachel Maddow
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### Author:  [@mkecane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkecane)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2011, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/7 "2011-08-04T15:33:47Z")
Bill Bradley in 2000 was the only candidate I’ve ever been genuinely supportive of, and I can’t think of others since then that I would want, so I’ll go with him again. I like to think that Gore’s biggest problem in 2000 was Clinton-fatigue, so Bradley wouldn’t have had that against him in a head-to-head with Bush. He’s not exciting, but he’s always come across as more personable than Gore, so I don’t know what the GOP could have done to negatively attack Bradley. What could have been if the DNC hadn’t given all support to Gore from the get go…
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### Author:  [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2011, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/8 "2011-08-04T15:52:03Z")
> [@mkecane](#):
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> I like to think that Gore’s biggest problem in 2000 was Clinton-fatigue…
Clinton, who ended his presidency with an over 60% approval rating? Clinton, the only president since 1946 so far to end his presidency with a higher approval rating than when he started?
Nah, Gore’s biggest problem was Gore. He ran an awful, directionless campaign, which started out ok during the primaries (against only one toothless opponent, Bradley) but badly lost its way when he finally faced off with with real competition from Dubya. He refused Clinton’s help, which was especially bad in a couple, potentially key southern states. He chose Lieberman for his running mate. And worst of all, he never managed to present a consistent image of himself as a leader to voters.
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### Author:  [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2011, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/9 "2011-08-04T16:02:10Z")
Me.
Smaller government, lower taxes. Repeal of the Patriot Act. Dismantling the Department of Homeland Security. Legal marijuana, abortion, gay marriage. GITMO closed, those detained there tried in regular federal courts, under regular rules of evidence.
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### Author:  [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2011, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/10 "2011-08-04T16:04:15Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> Your candidate must be a natural born citizen and 35 years of age to qualify-after that, anything goes.
William Jefferson Clinton, but he fails to qualify on other grounds.
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### Author:  [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2011, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/11 "2011-08-04T16:09:02Z")
> [@Giles](#):
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> William Jefferson Clinton, but he fails to qualify on other grounds.
I found you a loophole for your pick: Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2011, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/12 "2011-08-04T16:28:58Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> What’s in it for me if you get the job?
Legal weed?
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2011, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/13 "2011-08-04T16:30:32Z")
> [@Oakminster](#):
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> Me.
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> Smaller government, lower taxes.
Yeah, those things have worked out great for the last ten years.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2011, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/14 "2011-08-04T16:31:27Z")
> [@Giles](#):
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> William Jefferson Clinton, but he fails to qualify on other grounds.
My pre-poll, my rules. Natural born citizen and at least 35 years old, period.
Bill the Cat is out-we all know he was born in Cuba.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2011, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/15 "2011-08-04T16:32:28Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#):
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> Yeah, those things have worked out great for the last ten years.
You two can hash it out in the primaries…if either of you make it, that is. 😃
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### Author:  [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2011, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/16 "2011-08-04T16:36:38Z")
Donald Trump.
I want to see him point his finger at a recalcitrant cabinet officer and say “you’re fired”!
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### Author:  [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2011, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/17 "2011-08-04T16:38:53Z")
Sarah Palin.
I \*demand \*to be entertained!
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### Author:  [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/18 "2011-08-04T16:49:46Z")
Elizabeth Warren.
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### Author:  [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2011, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/19 "2011-08-04T16:50:10Z")
Ron Paul.
Go, you crazy little fucker, GO!
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2011, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-poll-pick-the-next-president/591469/20 "2011-08-04T17:01:13Z")
Martin Sheen.
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