# SDMB Retrospective US Presidential Elections 1828

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-retrospective-us-presidential-elections-1828/685925>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [April 12, 2014, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-retrospective-us-presidential-elections-1828/685925 "2014-04-12T07:12:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2014, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-retrospective-us-presidential-elections-1828/685925/1 "2014-04-12T07:12:47Z")

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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United\_States\_presidential\_election,\_1828](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1828)

I’d have voted for JQ Adams again.

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**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-retrospective-us-presidential-elections-1828/685925/2 "2014-04-16T01:12:21Z")

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Me, too. AJ killed too many Indians.

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-retrospective-us-presidential-elections-1828/685925/3 "2014-04-16T01:15:56Z")

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And what he did to the Second Bank of the United States! (Not that that necessarily can be foreseen from 1824.)

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-retrospective-us-presidential-elections-1828/685925/4 "2014-04-18T20:10:14Z")

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And Calhoun on Jackson’s ticket don’t help!

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**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-retrospective-us-presidential-elections-1828/685925/5 "2014-04-18T23:17:22Z")

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> [@JKellyMap](#):
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> Me, too. AJ killed too many Indians.

To be fair, there was a war at the time, and they were trying to kill him back.

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-retrospective-us-presidential-elections-1828/685925/6 "2014-04-22T00:38:01Z")

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> [@Captain\_Amazing](#):
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> To be fair, there was a war at the time, and they were trying to kill him back.

[But he didn’t stop there.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_tears) (Not that we know that, voting in 1828.)