What’s the vote count at?
I make it a four-way tie for ouster:
Adams: 4
Coolidge: 4
Harrison: 4
Taylor: 4
Arthur: 1
Ford: 1
Feel free to double-check my counting, though.
Wow.
What’s your tiebreaking procedure? Wait for someone else to chime in?
Dig them up and make them fight it out as zombies.
I switch my vote to Harrison to save Taylor.
Rock, paper, scissors? Or have a lightning round limited to the top four vote-getters?
If there’s a tie, the first President to receive a new or switched vote is eliminated. At the moment, Harrison is in the lead (I came up with the same count as Gyrate, but of course stu switched his vote).
(We did this once already, in the Grant-Carter-Madison showdown for #11).
Silent Cal Coolidge.
I would say Cleavland, but in order to break the tie: Cooldige.
Can’t vote if you misspell both.
Coolidge
Coolidge.
(I came to this thread late, but he would have been my choice before the tiebreaker)
Vote count:
Coolidge 8
Harrison 5
Taylor 4
Adams 3
Arthur* 1
Ford** 1
- not Dent
** not Prefect
Calvin Coolidge loses.
George Washington (None, 1789-1797)
John Adams (Federalist, 1797-1801)
Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican, 1801-1809)
James Monroe (Democratic-Republican, 1817-1825)
John Quincy Adams (Democratic-Republican, 1825-1829)
James Polk (Democrat, 1845-1849)
Zachary Taylor (Whig, 1849-1850)
Abraham Lincoln (Republican, 1861-1865)
Chester Arthur (Republican, 1881-1885)
Grover Cleveland (Democrat, 1885-1889, 1893-1897)
Benjamin Harrison (Republican, 1889-1893)
William McKinley (Republican, 1897-1901)
Theodore Roosevelt (Republican, 1901-1909)
William Howard Taft (Republican, 1909-1913)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democrat, 1933-1945)
Henry Truman (Democrat, 1945-1953)
Dwight Eisenhower (Republican, 1953-1961)
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Democrat, 1961-1963)
Lyndon Baines Johnson (Democrat, 1963-1969)
Gerald Ford (Republican, 1974-1977)
George Herbert Walker Bush (Republican, 1989-1993)
William Jefferson Clinton (Democrat, 1993-2001)
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)
I’m going to be inconsistent and switch my vote to John Adams.
Voting will close on Thursday at 2 PM.
John Quincy Adams was a great Secretary of State but a poor president (largely due to the Tariff of Abominations and the subsequent nullification fiasco). He gets my vote.
John Adams.
Not the Adamses!
Sticking with Harrison, although keeping my eye on Taylor if it goes badly for him.
George HW Bush. If only because he hasn’t gotten any votes yet.
John Adams. Anyone who would stand by while an opposition congressman was thrown in jail – for no reason other than being an opposition congressman – barely deserves to be called an American, let alone a president.
Am I being a little hyperbolic? Sure, but I’m not distorting the truth. I don’t always agree with my country’s actions, but I must believe in her highest principles, and Adams violated them. In spades.
I know it’s getting boring, but Zachary Taylor is still my vote.
(Also, as a fangirl of the musical 1776, I am going through cycles of being offended that Adams is so heavily voted for and acceptance, because he is “obnoxious and disliked, that cannot be denied.”)