Cassandra
Situationist
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« on: April 19, 2019, 07:15:47 PM » |
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« edited: April 28, 2019, 05:35:29 PM by Situationist »
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In most of these years I probably would not have bothered voting. But for fun, I selected the best candidate each year when a palatable one was available, and wrote in a contemporary public figure in bad years.
1900: Eugene Debs
1904: Eugene Debs
1908: Eugene Debs
1912: Eugene Debs
1916: Allan Benson
1920: Eugene Debs
1924: Robert LaFollette
1928: Norman Thomas
1932: Franklin D. Roosevelt
1936: Norman Thomas
1940: Norman Thomas
1944: Norman Thomas
1948: Henry Wallace
1952: Vincent Hallinan
1956: Darlington Hoopes
1960: (Write in: A. Philip Randolph)
1964: (Write in: Malcolm X)
1968: (Write in: Eugene McCarthy)
1972: George McGovern
1976: Eugene McCarthy
1980: (Write in: Michael Harrington)
1984: (Write in: Jesse Jackson)
1988: (Write in: Jesse Jackson)
1992: (Write in: Noam Chomsky)
1996: Ralph Nader
2000: Ralph Nader
2004: (Write in: Noam Chomsky)
2008: (Write in: Noam Chomsky)
2012: (Write in: Noam Chomsky)
2016: (Write in: Bernie Sanders)
EDIT: For fun, here is 1840-1896
1840: James G. Birney (Liberty)
1844: James G. Birney (Liberty)
1848: Martin Van Buren (Free Soil)
1852: John P. Hale (Free Soil)
1856: John C. Fremont (Republican)
1860: Abraham Lincoln (Republican)
1864: Abraham Lincoln (Republican)
1868: Ulysses S. Grant (Republican)
1872: Ulysses S. Grant (Republican)
1876: Peter Cooper (Greenback)
1880: James Weaver (Greenback)
1884: Benjamin Butler (Greenback)
1888: Alson Streeter (Union Labor)
1892: James Weaver (Populist)
1896: Charles H. Matchett (Socialist Labor)
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