http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1836
I’d have voted for whoever was the Whig candidate in my state.
Should read 1836 needless to say
Wasn’t that the election cycle that was vacated by the Black Plague? 
Anyway, had to go with Ol’ Kinderhook. My family is from just across the Hudson from that village, and also I like the idea of a president whose first language wasn’t English.
Van Buren avoided war and helped to usher in a stable banking system.
Once again this is a reflection of your unique views on economics. Jackson and Van Buren closed down the National Bank. You might call what followed a stable banking system but it’s more commonly known as the Panic of 1837 (which is admittedly a misnomer for an economic crisis that lasted for seven years).
With whom?
N.B.: This is 1836, Van Buren has done nothing as president yet, it would be his first term if he wins.
The British, he probably means. During the Van Buren administration, the Aroostook War broke out over the border of Maine. Both sides postured a lot and mustered troops, but the American and British governments agreed on a border.
This is a meh election for me. I guess I’ll go for Tippecanoe and Tyler Too, if only because it’s arguably the catchiest slogan in U.S. political history.
I was going to post a joke about voting for Jadwiga as Grand Duchess of Lithuania, but never mind.
I’m afraid I’m prejudiced against them because of the coverage in The American Pageant – we all read it in high school, right? The Harrison campaign was dishonest, portraying Harrison as a common poor man when he was really a frontier aristocrat; and it was also an “inane hoopla campaign,” with its “log cabins and hard cider” slogans and its witless jingles.
That’s true enough, but it worked, didn’t it?
A few years ago, the Lincoln Museum in Springfield, Illinois (visit it; seriously, I mean it; visit it) had as their temporary exhibition a sample of physical media (banners, medals, badges, etc.) from all presidential elections from Washington through Bush the Younger. There is nothing new under the sun.
Yes. Yes, it did. :mad: Unfortunately, all Americans who voted for Harrison are now long beyond the reach of my just and righteous vengeance.
One advantage of an afterlife. They never mention vengence from beyond the grave in Sunday School, but we were all thinking of it.