# SDMB Retrospective US Presidential Elections 1840 **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [June 10, 2014, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-retrospective-us-presidential-elections-1840/690453 "2014-06-10T03:02:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [June 10, 2014, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-retrospective-us-presidential-elections-1840/690453/1 "2014-06-10T03:02:50Z")
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United\_States\_presidential\_election,\_1840](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1840) Harrison again. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-retrospective-us-presidential-elections-1840/690453/2 "2014-06-10T04:43:42Z")
I dunno, he don’t look too healthy . . . ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-retrospective-us-presidential-elections-1840/690453/3 "2014-06-10T13:04:36Z")
I guess I’d have voted for Tippecanoe and Tyler, too, over the Jacksonian Van Buren. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-retrospective-us-presidential-elections-1840/690453/4 "2014-06-10T14:42:59Z")
Birney. He’s the only Abolitionist on the ballot. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-retrospective-us-presidential-elections-1840/690453/5 "2014-06-10T19:32:10Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Birney. He’s the only Abolitionist on the ballot. Yeah but them Founding Fathers had worked so feverishly to end slavery. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-retrospective-us-presidential-elections-1840/690453/6 "2014-06-10T20:14:39Z")
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. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2014, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-retrospective-us-presidential-elections-1840/690453/7 "2014-06-10T23:53:01Z")
Van Buren. He’s a local man, so you have to support that. Plus, Harrison’s campaign song is annoying. What is it about Van Buren that bothers people? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-retrospective-us-presidential-elections-1840/690453/8 "2014-06-11T00:20:37Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > 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. That’s why historians roll their eyes at Harrison’s content-free “inane hoopla campaign” defeating the Whigs who tried to talk about actual policy choices. I’m sure we all read _The American Pageant_ in high school. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2014, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-retrospective-us-presidential-elections-1840/690453/9 "2014-06-12T09:33:04Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Birney. He’s the only Abolitionist on the ballot. ^ This. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2014, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-retrospective-us-presidential-elections-1840/690453/10 "2014-06-12T19:09:20Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > What is it about Van Buren that bothers people? 1. He had really bad facial hair. 2. He presided over one of the Panic of 1837, probably the worst economic calamity in American history before the Great Depression. 3. He sided with the Spanish government in seeking the return of the Amistad captives, thereby rolling back the one positive thing America had done with respect to slavery (banning the international slave trade) 4. He carried out Andrew Jackson’s Indian removal policy in an especially brutal and callous manner. Guess I’ve talked myself into voting for Ol’ Tip.