The President Elimination Game

[Tom_Scud]

John Adams is the second Founding Father to be ejected from the contest, mainly for the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts.

George Washington (None, 1789-1797)
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:

1. James Buchanan (Democrat, 1857-1861)
2. Franklin Pierce (Democrat, 1853-1857)
3. Andrew Johnson (National Union, 1865-1869)
4. Warren Harding (Republican, 1921-1923)
5. Millard Fillmore (Whig, 1850-1853)
6. Richard Milhous Nixon (Republican, 1969-1974)
7. Herbert Hoover (Republican, 1929-1933)
8. Ronald Reagan (Republican, 1981-1989)
9. Andrew Jackson (Democrat, 1829-1837)
10. Rutherford Hayes (Republican, 1877-1881)
11. Ulysses Grant (Republican, 1869-1877)
12. John Tyler (Whig, 1841-1845)
13. James Earl Carter (Democrat, 1977-1981)
14. James Madison (Democratic-Republican, 1809-1817)
15. Martin Van Buren (Democrat, 1837-1841)
16. Woodrow Wilson (Democrat, 1913-1921)
17. Calvin Coolidge (Republican, 1923-1929)
18. John Adams (Federalist, 1797-1801)

Benjamin Harrison once again receives my vote.

Voting closes Monday at 2 PM.

[BobLibDem]

Time to get rid of that last Whig, Zach Taylor.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Hey hey, whoa whoa, slimy Tom Jefferson has got to go!

[Skammer]

Ousting Adams is a travesty of justice, I tell you. Ironic, since he was tossed for signing a travesty of justice.

So I’m going back to JFK, for reasons I listed a few pages ago.

[Steve_MB]

@Elendil_s_Heir

For those who love Polk and hate(d) Buchanan: Donald Graham on President James K. Polk

Polk can’t bear him, but the president shows why he was misnamed Young Hickory: in four years he can’t bring himself to fire Buchanan. What would Andy Jackson have done to him?

IIRC, Jackson appointed Buchanan as Minister to Russia, and later said, “If we maintained a ministry at the North Pole, I would have sent him there.”

[StusBlues]

I’m tempted to vote for McKinley for joining the imperialist dogpile and going to war with Spain, but I’ll take Benjamin Harrison–mostly because Neill Ferguson has me wondering if joining the imperialist dogpile is really such a bad thing.

And why a “LibDem” is selecting the #1 free-soiler before Lincoln is beyond me. Zachary Taylor is our most underrated President. If he’d lived, there would have been no Civil War–or at the very least, it would have been a much smaller affair, not the great scar on our collective history that the war itself and the succeeding Reconstruction have proven to be.

[Gangster_Octopus]

I will continue to vote for Gerald Ford.

[Makeitstop]

@stuthehistoryguy

Zachary Taylor is our most underrated President. If he’d lived, there would have been no Civil War–or at the very least, it would have been a much smaller affair, not the great scar on our collective history that the war itself and the succeeding Reconstruction have proven to be.

Cite?

Taylor.

[Leiko]

Zachary Taylor.

[Algorithm]

@Makeitstop

Cite?

Taylor.

I think stu’s already made his case for Taylor. Though I wouldn’t be unhappy to hear more. I think it is telling that, out of the 1830s, 40s, and 50s, he and Polk’s collective 5 years are the only ones remaining.

I don’t think it is quite Taylor’s time yet. I do believe there are remaining presidents that have done less net good in 48 months than Taylor did in 16.

I cast my vote for Harrison.

[StusBlues]

@Makeitstop

Cite?

Jack Bauer, Zachary Taylor : Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest. Louisiana State Press, 1985.

[John_DiFool]

Harrison.

I really wish the voting would pick up, as the small sample sizes (could, in theory if not reality) lead to a small subset of the voting contingent to get it in their heads that candidate X has to go. In other words more voters = more of a diversity of opinion and a more meaningful outcome. Just saying.

[amarone]

Harrison, again.

[Sternvogel]

Voting for Arthur once again, though come Monday I might throw in with the Harrison camp if there’s a tie between Ben and Taylor.

[Neptunian_Slug]

Benjamin Harrison needs to go.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@Sternvogel

Voting for Arthur once again, though come Monday I might throw in with the Harrison camp if there’s a tie between Ben and Taylor.

As I might, too.

[Algorithm]

@John_DiFool

Harrison.

I really wish the voting would pick up, as the small sample sizes (could, in theory if not reality) lead to a small subset of the voting contingent to get it in their heads that candidate X has to go. In other words more voters = more of a diversity of opinion and a more meaningful outcome. Just saying.

I agree with this. I didn’t notice the game until late but this kind of thing is right up my alley. Maybe we should take out some billboard space on I-95?

[Gyrate]

What the hell: Harrison.

[CyclopticXander]

The momentum seems to be with Harrison and that’s fine with me. It has to be pretty bad if you get beaten after a single term by the guy you replaced to begin with.

[Stowed_Bob]

Would everyone mind summing up the reasons for picking Harrison, Taylor, Arthur, etc? It probably won’t matter with the momentum behind Harrison, but I still want to hear about their missteps as president, I being ignorant about presidents and all that.