# Which Candidate Would Make the Best President

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [September 9, 2011, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-candidate-would-make-the-best-president/595769 "2011-09-09T23:42:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-candidate-would-make-the-best-president/595769/1 "2011-09-09T23:42:20Z")

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Which of the men and women running for the Presidency for 2012 would make the best President-both major and minor (even obscure candidates) from any party are eligable.

Personally I would say Jon Huntsman-Bachmann and Paul are neo-isolationist and fishy on economical issues, Romney has flip-flopped too much, and Perry while a competent governor has been inconsistent on social security and various other issues. Huntsman is the sort of technocratic centrist we need-provided he does not sign Kyoto or anything and practices prolife policies, I would wish him to be the nominee.

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**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-candidate-would-make-the-best-president/595769/2 "2011-09-09T23:44:15Z")

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I say Obama but if it had to be a Republican, Huntsman would be my first choice followed by Romney.

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**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-candidate-would-make-the-best-president/595769/3 "2011-09-10T00:21:13Z")

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Obama.

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**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-candidate-would-make-the-best-president/595769/4 "2011-09-10T13:09:02Z")

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> [@River\_Hippie](#):
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> I say Obama but if it had to be a Republican, Huntsman would be my first choice followed by Romney.

Lifelong democrat here and I agree.

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**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-candidate-would-make-the-best-president/595769/5 "2011-09-10T15:52:40Z")

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Lived in Utah for many year. Wife would have been a fifth generation Mormon but her parents forgot to have her baptized.

We would say that Huntsman is the best qualified Mormon at the present time.