Voting In Past Elections

In My Humble Opinion
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How would you have voted for President in past elections? My answers are bolded.

1789: George Washington (No party), John Adams (Federalist), John Jay (Federalist), Robert H. Harrison (Federalist), John Rutledge (Federalist), John Hancock (Federalist), George Clinton (Anti-Federalist), Samuel Huntington (Federalist), John Milton (Federalist), James Armstrong (Federalist), Benjamin Lincoln (Federalist), Edward Telfair (Anti-Federalist)

1792:** George Washington (No party)**, John Adams (Federalist), George Clinton (Democratic-Republican), Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican), Aaron Burr (Democratic-Republican)

1796: John Adams (Federalist), Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)

1800: Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican), Aaron Burr (Democratic-Republican), John Adams (Federalist), Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (Federalist), John Jay (Federalist)

1804: Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican), Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (Federalist)

1808: James Madison (Democratic-Republican), Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (Federalist), George Clinton (Democratic-Republican)

1812: James Madison (Democratic-Republican), DeWitt Clinton (Federalist), Rufus King (Federalist)

1816: James Monroe (Democratic-Republican), Rufus King (Federalist)

1820: James Monroe (Democratic-Republican), “Federalist” (Federalist), DeWitt Clinton (None)

1824: John Quincy Adams (Democratic-Republican), Andrew Jackson (Democratic-Republican), William Crawford (Democratic-Republican), Henry Clay (Democratic-Republican)

1828: Andrew Jackson (Democratic), John Quincy Adams (National Republican)

1832: Andrew Jackson (Democratic), Henry Clay (National Republican), John Floyd (Nullifier), William Wirt (Anti-Masonic)

1836: Martin Van Buren (Democratic), William Henry Harrison (Whig), Hugh Lawson White (Whig), Daniel Webster (Whig), Willie Person Mangum (Whig)

1840: William Henry Harrison (Whig), Martin Van Buren (Democratic)

1844: James Knox Polk (Democratic), Henry Clay (Whig), James Gillespie Birney (Liberty)

1848: Zachary Taylor (Whig), Lewis Cass (Democratic), Martin Van Buren (Free Soil)

1852: Franklin Pierce (Democratic), Winfield Scott (Whig), John Parker Hale (Free Soil)

1856: James Buchanan (Democratic), John Charles Fremont (Republican), Milliard Fillmore (American)

1860: Abraham Lincoln (Republican), John Cabell Breckenridge (Southern Democratic), John Bell (Constitutional Union), Stephen Arnold Douglas (Northern Democratic)

1864: Abraham Lincoln (National Union), George McClellan (Democratic)

1868: Ulysses Simpson Grant (Republican), Horatio Seymour (Democratic)

1872: Ulysses Simpson Grant (Republican), Horace Greely (Democratic/Liberal Republican)

1876: Rutherford Birchard Hayes (Republican), Samuel Jones Tilden (Democratic)

1880: James Garfield (Republican), Winfield Scott Hancock (Democratic), James Baird Weaver (Greenback-Labor)

1884: Stephen Grover Cleveland (Democratic), James Gillespie Blaine (Republican), Benjamin Franklin Butler (Greenback/Anti-Monopoly), John Pierce St. John (Prohibition)

1888: Benjamin Harrison (Republican), Stephen Grover Cleveland (Democratic), Clinton Bowen Fisk (Prohibition), Alson Jenness Streeter (Union Labor)

1892: Stephen Grover Cleveland (Democratic), Benjamin Harrison (Republican), James Baird Weaver (Populist), John Bidwell (Prohibition)

1896: William McKinley (Republican), William Jennings Bryan (Democratic/Populist), John McAuley Palmer (National Democratic)

1900: William McKinley (Republican), William Jennings Bryan (Democratic), John Grenville Woolley (Prohibition)

1904: Theodore Roosevelt (Republican), Alton Brooks Parker (Democratic), Eugene Victor Debs (Socialist), Silas Comfort Swallow (Prohibition)

1908: William Howard Taft (Republican), William Jennings Bryan (Democratic), Eugene Victor Debs (Socialist), Eugene Wilder Chafin (Prohibition)

1912: Thomas Woodrow Wilson (Democratic),** Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive)**, William Howard Taft (Republican), Eugene Victor Debs (Socialist), Eugene Wilder Chafin (Prohibition)

1916: Thomas Woodrow Wilson (Democratic), Charles Evan Hughes (Republican), Allan Louis Benson (Socialist), James Franklin Hanley (Prohibition)

1920: Warren Gamaliel Harding (Republican), James Middleton Cox (Democratic), Eugene Victor Debs (Socialist), Parley Parker Christensen (Farmer-Labor)

1924: John Calvin Coolidge Jr. (Republican), John William Davis (Democratic), Robert Marion LaFollette (Progressive)

1928: Herbert Hoover (Republican), Alfred Emanuel Smith Jr. (Democratic)

1932: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democratic),Herbert Hoover (Republican), Norman Thomas (Socialist)

1936: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democratic), Alfred Mossman Landon (Republican), William Lemke (Union)

1940: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democratic), Wendell Lewis Willkie (Republican)

1944: **Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democratic) **,Thomas Edmund Dewey (Republican)

1948: Harry S Truman (Democratic), Thomas Edmund Dewey (Republican), James Strom Thurmond (States Rights), Henry Agard Wallace (Progressive/American Labor)

1952: Dwight David Eisenhower (Republican), Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (Democratic)

1956:** Dwight David Eisenhower (Republican)**, Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (Democratic)

1960: John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Democratic), Richard Milhous Nixon (Republican), Unpledged (Democratic)

1964: Lyndon Baines Johnson (Democratic), Barry Morris Goldwater (Republican)

1968: Richard Milhous Nixon (Republican), Hubert Horatio Humphrey (Democratic), George Corley Wallace (American Independent)

1972:** Richard Milhous Nixon (Republican)**, George Stanley McGovern (Democratic), John George Schmitz (American Independent)

1976: James Earl Carter (Democratic), Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (Republican)
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1980: Ronald Wilson Reagan (Republican)**, James Earl Carter (Democratic), John Bayard Anderson (Independent), Ed Clark (Libertarian)

1984: Ronald Wilson Reagan (Republican), Walter Frederick Mondale (Democratic)

1988: George Herbert Walker Bush (Republican), Michael Stanley Dukakis (Democratic)

1992: William Jefferson Clinton (Democratic), George Herbert Walker Bush (Republican), Henry Ross Perot (Independent)

1996: William Jefferson Clinton (Democratic), Robert Joseph Dole (Republican), Henry Ross Perot (Independent)

2000: George Walker Bush (Republican), Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (Democratic), Ralph Nader (Green)

2004: George Walker Bush (Republican), John Forbes Kerrey (Democratic)

2008: Barack Hussein Obama II (Democratic), John Sidney McCain III (Republican)

Based on this the following statistics shew:

The candidate I supported won thirty three out of fifty six contests.

For the parties of the candidates

Republican-29
Democratic-11
Federalist-4
Democratic-Republican-4
Whig-3
None-2
National Republican-2
Progressive-1

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nevermind, misunderstood the premise, I think

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You are supposed to note who you have voted for US President in past, historical elections.

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Heh, yeah, I got that bit. But then I figured that your vote for and against DeWitt Clinton and your retrospective vote for Nixon meant that the premise was who you would have voted for if you were alive at the time (e.g. not knowing what you know now).

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Don’t get the first part of your post and as for Nixon, he wasn’t corrupt naturally and in retrospect I think he was a better President then Humphrey or especially McGovern.

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Now we’re in my element! I’m a huge political junkie and an amateur presidential historian, I’ve very often pondered this very question. So here we go!

1789: George Washington (No party), John Adams (Federalist), John Jay (Federalist), Robert H. Harrison (Federalist), John Rutledge (Federalist), John Hancock (Federalist), George Clinton (Anti-Federalist), Samuel Huntington (Federalist), John Milton (Federalist), James Armstrong (Federalist), Benjamin Lincoln (Federalist), Edward Telfair (Anti-Federalist)

1792: George Washington (No party), John Adams (Federalist), George Clinton (Democratic-Republican), Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican), Aaron Burr (Democratic-Republican)

1796: John Adams (Federalist), Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)

1800: Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican), Aaron Burr (Democratic-Republican), John Adams (Federalist), Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (Federalist), John Jay (Federalist)

1804: Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican), Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (Federalist)

1808: James Madison (Democratic-Republican), Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (Federalist), George Clinton (Democratic-Republican)

1812: James Madison (Democratic-Republican), DeWitt Clinton (Federalist), Rufus King (Federalist) It seems kind of weird to switch over here, but Madison was doing fine and it was becoming pretty clear that the Federalists were on their way out

1816: James Monroe (Democratic-Republican), Rufus King (Federalist)

1820: James Monroe (Democratic-Republican), “Federalist” (Federalist), DeWitt Clinton (None)

1824: John Quincy Adams (Democratic-Republican), Andrew Jackson (Democratic-Republican), William Crawford (Democratic-Republican), Henry Clay (Democratic-Republican)

1828: Andrew Jackson (Democratic), John Quincy Adams (National Republican)

1832: Andrew Jackson (Democratic), Henry Clay (National Republican), John Floyd (Nullifier), William Wirt (Anti-Masonic)

1836: Martin Van Buren (Democratic), William Henry Harrison (Whig), Hugh Lawson White (Whig), Daniel Webster (Whig), Willie Person Mangum (Whig)

1840: William Henry Harrison (Whig), Martin Van Buren (Democratic)

1844: James Knox Polk (Democratic), Henry Clay (Whig), James Gillespie Birney (Liberty)

1848: Zachary Taylor (Whig), Lewis Cass (Democratic), Martin Van Buren (Free Soil)

1852: Franklin Pierce (Democratic), **Winfield Scott **(Whig), John Parker Hale (Free Soil)

1856: James Buchanan (Democratic), John Charles Fremont (Republican), Milliard Fillmore (American)

1860: Abraham Lincoln (Republican), John Cabell Breckenridge (Southern Democratic), John Bell (Constitutional Union), Stephen Arnold Douglas (Northern Democratic)

1864: Abraham Lincoln (National Union), George McClellan (Democratic)

1868: Ulysses Simpson Grant (Republican), Horatio Seymour (Democratic)

1872: **Ulysses Simpson Grant **(Republican), Horace Greely (Democratic/Liberal Republican)

1876: Rutherford Birchard Hayes (Republican), Samuel Jones Tilden (Democratic) *Hayes is still the most criminally underrated, misunderstood, and overlooked president in my judgment *

1880: James Garfield (Republican), Winfield Scott Hancock (Democratic), James Baird Weaver (Greenback-Labor)

1884: Stephen Grover Cleveland (Democratic), James Gillespie Blaine (Republican), Benjamin Franklin Butler (Greenback/Anti-Monopoly), John Pierce St. John (Prohibition)

1888: Benjamin Harrison (Republican), Stephen Grover Cleveland (Democratic), Clinton Bowen Fisk (Prohibition), Alson Jenness Streeter (Union Labor)

1892: Stephen Grover Cleveland (Democratic), Benjamin Harrison (Republican), James Baird Weaver (Populist), John Bidwell (Prohibition)

1896: William McKinley (Republican), **William Jennings Bryan **(Democratic/Populist), John McAuley Palmer (National Democratic)

1900: William McKinley (Republican), William Jennings Bryan (Democratic), John Grenville Woolley (Prohibition)

1904: Theodore Roosevelt (Republican), Alton Brooks Parker (Democratic), Eugene Victor Debs (Socialist), Silas Comfort Swallow (Prohibition)

1908: William Howard Taft (Republican), William Jennings Bryan (Democratic), Eugene Victor Debs (Socialist), Eugene Wilder Chafin (Prohibition)

1912: Thomas Woodrow Wilson (Democratic), Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive), William Howard Taft (Republican), Eugene Victor Debs (Socialist), Eugene Wilder Chafin (Prohibition)

1916: Thomas Woodrow Wilson (Democratic), Charles Evan Hughes (Republican), Allan Louis Benson (Socialist), James Franklin Hanley (Prohibition)

1920: Warren Gamaliel Harding (Republican), **James Middleton Cox **(Democratic), Eugene Victor Debs (Socialist), Parley Parker Christensen (Farmer-Labor)

1924: John Calvin Coolidge Jr. (Republican), John William Davis (Democratic), Robert Marion LaFollette (Progressive)

1928: Herbert Hoover (Republican), Alfred Emanuel Smith Jr. (Democratic)

1932: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democratic),Herbert Hoover (Republican), Norman Thomas (Socialist)

1936: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democratic), Alfred Mossman Landon (Republican), William Lemke (Union)

1940: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democratic), Wendell Lewis Willkie (Republican)

1944: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democratic) ,Thomas Edmund Dewey (Republican)

1948: Harry S Truman (Democratic), Thomas Edmund Dewey (Republican), James Strom Thurmond (States Rights), Henry Agard Wallace (Progressive/American Labor)

1952: Dwight David Eisenhower (Republican), **Adlai Ewing Stevenson II **(Democratic) This is hard, I really have nothing against Ike, he was quite good actually, but I guess by this point I’d be a party guy as long as the candidate is acceptable, which Adlai is

1956: Dwight David Eisenhower (Republican), Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (Democratic)

1960: John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Democratic), Richard Milhous Nixon (Republican), Unpledged (Democratic)

1964: Lyndon Baines Johnson (Democratic), Barry Morris Goldwater (Republican)

1968: Richard Milhous Nixon (Republican), Hubert Horatio Humphrey (Democratic), George Corley Wallace (American Independent)

1972: Richard Milhous Nixon (Republican), George Stanley McGovern (Democratic), John George Schmitz (American Independent)

1976: James Earl Carter (Democratic), Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (Republican)

1980: Ronald Wilson Reagan (Republican), James Earl Carter (Democratic), John Bayard Anderson (Independent), Ed Clark (Libertarian)

1984: Ronald Wilson Reagan (Republican), Walter Frederick Mondale (Democratic)

1988: George Herbert Walker Bush (Republican), Michael Stanley Dukakis (Democratic)

1992: William Jefferson Clinton (Democratic), George Herbert Walker Bush (Republican), Henry Ross Perot (Independent)

1996: William Jefferson Clinton (Democratic), Robert Joseph Dole (Republican), Henry Ross Perot (Independent)

2000: George Walker Bush (Republican), Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (Democratic), Ralph Nader (Green)

2004: George Walker Bush (Republican), John Forbes Kerrey (Democratic)

2008: Barack Hussein Obama II (Democratic), John Sidney McCain III (Republican)

29/56 contests

Democratic- 29
Republican- 10
Federalist- 4
Democratic- Republican- 4
Whig- 3
National Republican- 2
No Party- 2 (He’s a federalist, even if he didn’t know it):slight_smile:
National Union-1
Progressive- 1

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I would not have voted for George Washington, that’s for sure.
I hate rich people, and he was reportedly the richest man in the country at that time.
And I hate rich people who got rich through finagling government handouts.
He made his money mainly by illegal claim staking land in Ohio when it was illegal to do so.

As Balzac is paraphrased as saying, “Behind every great fortune is a great crime.”

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Care to cite any of that?

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Wasn’t corrupt naturally? What does that mean? And how can you judge his performance against Humphrey’s or McGovern’s when they weren’t President?

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I’m saying Nixon wasn’t corrupt from the start. And we did have a slightly more moderate versions of McGovern be President; he’s name was Jimmy Carter. And I don’t think either Presidents Humphrey or McGovern could have opened up China without controversy like Nixon did; they as liberal Democrats would have been called “communists” for such diplomatic actions.

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No, he was always corrupt and manipulative in his public life. It’s not like he was a high minded idealist going into the presidency and four years later he was just swept up in events completely beyond his control. He was paranoid and overly politically combative. It’s just the guy he was.

Now he was a pretty good president, especially with foreign policy as has often been pointed out. It’s fine to imagine yourself voting for him retrospectively if you really dig his presidential accomplishments and think that his personal failings don’t matter in regards to his qualifications for office (although it would be funny if you didn’t apply that same standard to Clinton, who was also a good president with personal flaws). But his downfall was something he brought on himself.

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I agree. I do think Clinton’s scandals mattered little in my judgement of him-I just think Bush Sr. and/or Dole would have made better Presidents.

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1789: George Washington (Federalist)
1792: George Washington (Federalist)
1796: John Adams (Federalist)
1800: Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)
1804: Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)
1808: James Madison (Democratic-Republican)
1812: James Madison (Democratic-Republican)
1816: James Monroe (Democratic-Republican)
1820: James Monroe (Democratic-Republican)
1824: Henry Clay (Democratic-Republican)
1828: John Quincy Adams (National Republican)
1832: Henry Clay (National Republican)
1836: William Henry Harrison (Whig)
1840: William Henry Harrison (Whig)
1844: Henry Clay (Whig)
1848: Lewis Cass (Democratic)
1852: Winfield Scott (Whig)
1856: John Charles Fremont (Republican)
1860: Abraham Lincoln (Republican)
1864: Abraham Lincoln (Republican)
1868: Ulysses Simpson Grant (Republican)
1872: Ulysses Simpson Grant (Republican)
1876: Rutherford Birchard Hayes (Republican)
1880: James Garfield (Republican)
1884: Stephen Grover Cleveland (Democratic)
1888: Stephen Grover Cleveland (Democratic)
1892: Stephen Grover Cleveland (Democratic)
1896: William McKinley (Republican)
1900: William McKinley (Republican)
1904: Theodore Roosevelt (Republican)
1908: William Howard Taft (Republican)
1912: Thomas Woodrow Wilson (Democratic)
1916: Thomas Woodrow Wilson (Democratic)
1920: James Middleton Cox (Democratic)
1924:John William Davis (Democratic)
1928: Alfred Emanuel Smith Jr. (Democratic)
1932: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democratic)
1936: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democratic)
1940: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democratic)
1944: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democratic)
1948: Harry S Truman (Democratic)
1952: Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (Democratic)
1956: Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (Democratic)
1960: John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Democratic)
1964: Lyndon Baines Johnson (Democratic)
1968: Hubert Horatio Humphrey (Democratic)
1972: George Stanley McGovern (Democratic)
1976: James Earl Carter (Democratic)
1980: James Earl Carter (Democratic)
1984: Walter Frederick Mondale (Democratic)
1988:Michael Stanley Dukakis (Democratic)
1992: William Jefferson Clinton (Democratic)
1996: William Jefferson Clinton (Democratic)
2000: Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (Democratic)
2004: John Forbes Kerry (Democratic)
2008: Barack Hussein Obama II (Democratic)

Some notes:
I count Washington as a Federalist. Technically, he was unopposed. Those other guys who got electoral votes did so under the old rules where every elector got two votes for president.
I count the 1864 Lincoln as a Republican.

My stats: 35/56, winning percentage 0.625. I dispute the 2000 and 2004 results, which would have made me 37/56 or 0.661

Party stats: Democratic 29, Republican 11, Democratic-Republican 7, Whig 4, Federalist 3, National Republican 2

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1789: George Washington (No party)
1792: George Washington (No party)
1796: Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)
1800: Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)
1804: Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)
1808: James Madison (Democratic-Republican)
1812: James Madison (Democratic-Republican)
1816: James Monroe (Democratic-Republican)
1820: James Monroe (Democratic-Republican)
1824: Henry Clay (Democratic-Republican)
1828: Andrew Jackson (Democratic)
1832: Andrew Jackson (Democratic)
1836: Martin Van Buren (Democratic)
1840: Martin Van Buren (Democratic)
1844: James Knox Polk (Democratic)
1848: Zachary Taylor (Whig) (None of the candidates impress me).
1852: Winfield Scott (Whig)
1856: John Charles Fremont (Republican)
1860: Abraham Lincoln (Republican)
1864: Abraham Lincoln (National Union)
1868: Horatio Seymour (Democratic)
1872: Horace Greely (Democratic/Liberal Republican)
1876: Samuel Jones Tilden (Democratic)
1880: JWinfield Scott Hancock (Democratic)
1884: Stephen Grover Cleveland (Democratic)
1888: Stephen Grover Cleveland (Democratic)
1892: Stephen Grover Cleveland (Democratic)
1896: William Jennings Bryan (Democratic/Populist),
1900: William Jennings Bryan (Democratic)
1904: Theodore Roosevelt (Republican)
1908: Eugene Victor Debs (Socialist) (as a protest)
1912: Thomas Woodrow Wilson (Democratic)
1916: Thomas Woodrow Wilson (Democratic),
1920: Eugene Victor Debs (Socialist) (another protest)
1924: Robert Marion LaFollette (Progressive)
1928: Alfred Emanuel Smith Jr. (Democratic)
1932: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democratic)
1936: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democratic)
1940: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democratic)
1944: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democratic)
1948: Harry S Truman (Democratic)
1952: Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (Democratic)
1956: Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (Democratic)
1960: John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Democratic)
1964: Lyndon Baines Johnson (Democratic)
1968: Hubert Horatio Humphrey (Democratic)

Now for people I actually have voted for:

1972: George Stanley McGovern (Democratic) (a terrible choice, but at least he wasn’t Nixon).
1976: Eugene McCarthy (write-in)
1980: John Bayard Anderson (Independent)
1984: Walter Frederick Mondale (Democratic)
1988: Michael Stanley Dukakis (Democratic)
1992: William Jefferson Clinton (Democratic)
1996: William Jefferson Clinton (Democratic)
2000: Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (Democratic)
2004: John Forbes Kerrey (Democratic)
2008: Barack Hussein Obama II (Democratic)

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How come you voted for William McKinley over William Jennings Bryan. Wouldn’t Bryan a populist and economically very liberal be closer to your opinions then the imperialist McKinley?

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Good question. It’s hard to separate what you know about him now to how you would have voted then. But Bryan was well known even then to be a religous zealot, long before going after Darwinism. Probably at the time I would have had more sympathy with McKinley’s tariff idea than Bryan’s obsession with the gold standard.

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