# Which historical presidents would you have voted for?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 12, 2013, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-historical-presidents-would-you-have-voted-for/668704 "2013-09-12T21:28:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2013, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-historical-presidents-would-you-have-voted-for/668704/21 "2013-09-14T02:34:21Z")

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Recommended book: “They Also Ran” by Irving Stone.

[Here’s an Amazon link.](http://www.amazon.com/They-Also-Ran-Defeated-Presidency/dp/0385074093) Often amusing, definitely informative. The author has his opinions – how could one write a book like this and not? – but he doesn’t seem to have any overt agenda or ideological bias.

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**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2013, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-historical-presidents-would-you-have-voted-for/668704/22 "2013-09-14T13:05:06Z")

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> [@bup](#):
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> Point of order - in 2016, is it Kodos _the partner of Kang_, or is it Kodos _the Executioner_?

They are siblings, but it makes no difference which one you vote for. Either way your planet is doomed. _Doooomed!_

> [@Trinopus](#):
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> ETA: Is it okay to fill in the poll only partially? To check the boxes where I know something, and leave the others blank?

Of course.

> [@bup](#):
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> In the 1800 election, Adams was Jefferson’s opponent.
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> I understand what you did, because Burr, as Jefferson’s running mate, got the same number of votes, but really the vote was between Adams and Jefferson. Those 37 votes by the electors were just an embarrassment.
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> Knowing what I know now, I would have voted for Adams.

Bloody Aaron Burr, always causing trouble. You’re right, of course - glad the other option is there.

Surprised William Jennings Bryan is getting so many votes against McKinley, I’d expect Dopers to despise him - a prohibitionist and staunch opponent to evolution, particularly through the Scopes Trial. Maybe he had some good points over McKinley I’m missing.

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**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2013, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-historical-presidents-would-you-have-voted-for/668704/23 "2013-09-14T14:19:02Z")

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Thank you, **Mr. Kobayashi** for the effort to create this poll. Very entertaining. The results should be interesting.

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**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2013, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-historical-presidents-would-you-have-voted-for/668704/24 "2013-09-14T15:19:27Z")

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> [@Gagundathar](#):
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> Thank you, **Mr. Kobayashi** for the effort to create this poll. Very entertaining. The results should be interesting.

Indeed, most informative. I’m agreeing with most of the choices so far; in particular Frémont sounds like he’d have been a far better choice than Buchanan, even though he was associated with such shocking things as [“womans rights” and “the equality of our colored brethren”](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/1856-Republican-party-Fremont-isms-caricature.jpg).

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