The President Elimination Game

The Game Room
921

I’ll vote for Grover the Rover again.

922

Bump-so is the game on hold for the holidays or something?

923

I give a vote to Jefferson.

924

Here’s the order of elimination I’ll vote for:

Cleveland
Monroe
Jefferson
Eisenhower
Truman
T. Roosevelt
Polk
F.D. Roosevelt
Washington
Lincoln

925

No votes compiled on Christmas Day or New Year’s, at least by me. If someone else feels like doing it, I have no objection.

926

Monroe.

927

I’m returning from my hiatus to add my vote against Cleveland, who’s only positive point in my mind is that an even lesser president was wedged between his disappointing terms.

I must say that this top ten list is certainly interesting. It’s part traditional and part baffling. Cleveland, Polk, and Monroe are really top ten material according to The Dope? I’ll chalk it up to the process.

I’m pretty sure who the number one and two spots will be, but the rest will be fun. Bring on the home stretch!

928

Morning Vote Count:
Monroe 9
Cleveland 7
Jefferson 1

Voting closes at 2 PM.

929

Another vote for Cleveland (alas, consecutive).

930

I’m not at all sure which of Washington or Lincoln will end up at #1, but I’ll be shocked if anyone but FDR is #3.

931

Agreed, although his older cousin could give him a run for his money, IMHO.

932

I have Teddy ranked below the two post-WWII presidents on my list.

933

It’s a tough one. I like them each for different reasons. Each was the right man at the right time.

934

Well FDR’s accomplishments to me were less than TRs. Theodore thrust the US into world politics in a big way. He made us a real power to be considered by the major states. He ensured the Navy would be built up and established most of the bases we would end up needing in WWII 40 years earlier. He suspected someday we might be defending ourselves from the Japanese Navy. He negotiated the end of one war and avoided another with Germany over Venezuela.

FDR’s policies were hit or miss. They helped a lot but were not perfect. His handling of WWII was excellent once the Japanese obliged in Pearl Harbor but he did not exactly succeed in getting the country committed earlier or really get the buildup going in earnest.

Both were great presidents, I just think TR was the greater.

935

Polk! Again.

936

Vote Count:
Monroe 9
Cleveland 8
Jefferson, Polk 1

937

Monroe is out, and now there are nine:

George Washington (None, 1789-1797)
Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican, 1801-1809)
James Polk (Democrat, 1845-1849)
Abraham Lincoln (Republican, 1861-1865)
Grover Cleveland (Democrat, 1885-1889, 1893-1897)
Theodore Roosevelt (Republican, 1901-1909)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democrat, 1933-1945)
Harry S. Truman (Democrat, 1945-1953)
Dwight Eisenhower (Republican, 1953-1961)

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)
  19. Benjamin Harrison (Republican, 1889-1893)
  20. Gerald Ford (Republican, 1974-1977)
  21. Zachary Taylor (Whig, 1849-1850)
  22. George Herbert Walker Bush (Republican, 1989-1993)
  23. John Quincy Adams (Democratic-Republican, 1825-1829)
  24. Chester Arthur (Republican, 1881-1885)
  25. John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Democrat, 1961-1963)
  26. William McKinley (Republican, 1897-1901)
  27. William Howard Taft (Republican, 1909-1913)
  28. Lyndon Baines Johnson (Democrat, 1963-1969)
  29. William Jefferson Clinton (Democrat, 1993-2001)
  30. James Monroe (Democratic-Republican, 1817-1825)

I’ll vote for Thomas Jefferson at this point.

Voting closes Wednesday at 2 PM.

938

Grover Cleveland.

939

Although I wouldn’t mind owning one of these.

940

Having it come down to a single vote there was pretty exciting. This round is going to be pretty easy though, it’s finally Cleveland’s time!