And with that, the game is over. By the process of elimination, the greatest US President is:
George Washington (None, 1789-1797)
Eliminated Presidents:
- James Buchanan (Democrat, 1857-1861)
- Franklin Pierce (Democrat, 1853-1857)
- Andrew Johnson (National Union, 1865-1869)
- Warren Harding (Republican, 1921-1923)
- Millard Fillmore (Whig, 1850-1853)
- Richard Milhous Nixon (Republican, 1969-1974)
- Herbert Hoover (Republican, 1929-1933)
- Ronald Reagan (Republican, 1981-1989)
- Andrew Jackson (Democrat, 1829-1837)
- Rutherford Hayes (Republican, 1877-1881)
- Ulysses Grant (Republican, 1869-1877)
- John Tyler (Whig, 1841-1845)
- James Earl Carter (Democrat, 1977-1981)
- James Madison (Democratic-Republican, 1809-1817)
- Martin Van Buren (Democrat, 1837-1841)
- Woodrow Wilson (Democrat, 1913-1921)
- Calvin Coolidge (Republican, 1923-1929)
- John Adams (Federalist, 1797-1801)
- Benjamin Harrison (Republican, 1889-1893)
- Gerald Ford (Republican, 1974-1977)
- Zachary Taylor (Whig, 1849-1850)
- George Herbert Walker Bush (Republican, 1989-1993)
- John Quincy Adams (Democratic-Republican, 1825-1829)
- Chester Arthur (Republican, 1881-1885)
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Democrat, 1961-1963)
- William McKinley (Republican, 1897-1901)
- William Howard Taft (Republican, 1909-1913)
- Lyndon Baines Johnson (Democrat, 1963-1969)
- William Jefferson Clinton (Democrat, 1993-2001)
- James Monroe (Democratic-Republican, 1817-1825)
- Grover Cleveland (Democrat, 1885-1889, 1893-1897)
- Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican, 1801-1809)
- James K. Polk (Democrat, 1845-1849)
- Dwight Eisenhower (Republican, 1953-1961)
- Harry S. Truman (Democrat, 1945-1953)
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democrat, 1933-1945)
- Theodore Roosevelt (Republican, 1901-1909)
- Abraham Lincoln (Republican, 1861-1865)
And for post-game celebrations, I will turn it over to Brad Neely, for his unforgettable but perhaps not entirely historically accurate (and not completely work-safe) tribute.