# Who Would You Have Voted For In Past Nominating Contests

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Starting with the start of a stable party system in 1836

Whigs  
1836: Daniel Webster  
1840: William Henry Harrison  
1844: Henry Clay  
1848: Zachary Taylor  
1852: Winfield Scott

Democrats  
1836: Abstain  
1840: Abstain  
1844: James K Polk  
1848: Lewis Cass  
1852: Lewis Cass  
1856: Lewis Cass  
1860: Stephen A Douglas  
1864: George B McClellan  
1868: Salmon P Chase  
1872: Horace Greeley  
1876: Samuel J Tilden  
1880: Winfield Scott Hancock  
1884: Grover Cleveland  
1888: Grover Cleveland  
1892: Grover Cleveland  
1896: John M Palmer (National Democrats)  
1900: Abstain  
1904: Alton B Parker  
1908: George Gray  
1912: Judson Harmon  
1916: Abstain  
1920: Al Smith  
1924: Al Smith  
1928: Cordell Hull  
1932: Franklin Delano Roosevelt  
1936: Franklin Delano Roosevelt  
1940: Franklin Delano Roosevelt  
1944: Franklin Delano Roosevelt  
1948: Harry Truman  
1952: Adlai Stevenson  
1956: Adlai Stevenson  
1960: Hubert Humphrey  
1964: Lyndon B Johnson  
1968: Robert F Kennedy  
1972: Henry M Jackson  
1976: Henry M Jackson  
1980: Abstain  
1984: John Glenn  
1988: Al Gore  
1992: Bill Clinton  
1996: Bill Clinton  
2000: Al Gore  
2004: Joe Lieberman  
2008: Abstain  
2012: Abstain

Republicans  
1856: William Seward  
1860: Abraham Lincoln  
1864: Abraham Lincoln  
1868: Ulysses S Grant  
1872: Ulysses S Grant  
1876: Rutherford B Hayes  
1880: James Garfield  
1884: Chester A Arthur  
1888: John Sherman  
1892: Benjamin Harrison  
1896: William McKinley  
1900: William McKinley  
1904: Theodore Roosevelt  
1908: William Howard Taft  
1912: Theodore Roosevelt  
1916: Charles Evan Hughes  
1920: Leonard Wood  
1924: Calvin Coolidge  
1928: Herbert Hoover  
1932: Herbert Hoover  
1936: Frank Knox  
1940: Wendell Willkie  
1944: Thomas Dewey  
1948: Thomas Dewey  
1952: Dwight Eisenhower  
1956: Dwight Eisenhower  
1960: Richard Nixon  
1964: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr  
1968: Richard Nixon  
1972: Richard Nixon  
1976: Ronald Reagan  
1980: Ronald Reagan  
1984: Ronald Reagan  
1988: George HW Bush  
1992: George HW Bush  
1996: Bob Dole  
2000: John McCain  
2004: George W Bush  
2008: John McCain  
2012: Jon Huntsman

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You have altogether too much time on your hands.