Presidential Tournament

[sentinel]

I thought it would be pretty interesting to make a tournament bracket with a set of up to 64 possible nominees for President.

I have thought of two options on how the bracket will be organized (let me know which one you guys want):

Option 1): The bracket will have two sides that I'll dub left wing and right wing. So left-wing nominees will compete and right wing nominees will compete amongst themselves and then the left-wing nominee and right-wing nominee will compete at the end. Everyone will be able to vote on each match whether regardless of your own political leanings.

Option 2): The bracket will be randomly organized, so, for example, it is possible that two Republicans would be in the final match.

You will be able to vote on (via poll on a separate website) on who will win each mach.

You guys can nominate people to be on the bracket. Nominate up to 20 people, each person needs at least 2 supporters to make it onto the bracket. I want to leave this part a little vague for creativity but I won't put anything absurd on there (example: Neil Patrick Harris, Barney the Dinosaur, someone from this forum, Rosie O'Donnell). Independents and third parties are allowed.

Nominees can be born outside of the US, but they must be an American (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jennifer Granholm)
Please try to make your nominees even in number in terms of Dem/Rep (Don't give me 19 Reps and 1 Dem)

If this gets a good amount of support I'll follow through. I just thought it would be kinda cool. I'll leave the nominating process open until Wednesday night.

I will be traveling home from Japan all of Monday EST and most of Tuesday EST so I won't be reachable.

I'll post my nominees in an additional post.

[tmthforu94]

I think that'd be cool. I like Option 1 better, personally. It would be "the best of both worlds" fighting it out in the end.

My nominations. (All Republican, to make your life easier):
Mitt Romney
John Thune
Mitch Daniels
Marlin Stutzman
Susan Collins
Rick Perry
Sue Lowden
Dick Lugar
Lynn Jenkins
Bobby Jindal
Haley Barbour
Bob Corker
Jodi Rell
Linda Lingle
Michelle Bachmann
Bill O'Reilly
Greta Van Susteren
Susan Collins
Jean Schmidt
Kelly Ayotte

(Note: I nominated some of these just to make it interesting. )

[Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey]

I like option 1 better also. Anyway, here are my nominations (All from the right):

Mitch Daniels
Ron Paul
Marlin Stutzman
Rand Paul
Gary Johnson
Lynn Jenkins
Bobby Jindal
Sue Lowden
Sarah Palin
Jim DeMint
Jean Schmidt
Michelle Bachmann
John Boehner
Jim Bunning
Tom Campbell
John Stossel
Rush Limbaugh
Sean Hannity
Jeb Bush
Marco Rubio

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

I prefer Option 2; here are my nominations:


Ron Paul
Rand Paul
Michele Bachmann
Barry Goldwater, Jr.
Gary Johnson
Mike Gravel
Dennis Kucinich
George McGovern
Jimmy Carter
George H.W. Bush
John Stossel
Sargent Shriver
Howard Dean
Bernard Sanders
Alex Jones
David Duke
Jeremiah Wright
Pat Buchanan
James Traficant
Naomi Wolf
Gerald Celente
Vince Vaughn
Drew Carey
David Paterson
Kelly Ayotte
Oprah Winfrey

[sentinel]

OK so this might be a slightly complex post but here we go...

Thus far, the people who have been nominated (have 2 supporters, will be in the tournament are...

More left candidates:
No one has two supporters

More right candidates (13 - Don't nominate these people again, they're in!):

Bobby Jindal
Gary Johnson
Jean Schmidt
Marlin Stutzman
Michelle Bachmann
Mitch Daniels
Rand Paul
Ron Paul
Sue Lowden
Susan Collins
Lynn Jenkins
Bill O'Reilly
Marco Rubio

Potential Nominees on the left (have only 1 supporter, need 2):

Bernard Sanders
Bill Richardson
Brian Schweitzer
Chuck Schumer
Cory Booker
David Paterson
Dennis Kucinich
Eliot Spitzer
George McGovern
George Mitchell
Howard Dean
James Traficant
Jennifer Granholm
Jimmy Carter
Joe Biden
Mike Gravel
Naomi Wolf
Oprah Winfrey
Rahm Emanuel
Russ Feingold


Potential Nominees on the right:

Arnold Schwarzeneggar
Barry Goldwater, Jr.
Bob Corker
Charlie Christ
Chris Christie
Dick Lugar
Dick Lugar
George H.W. Bush
Greta Van Susteren
Haley Barbour
Jeb Bush
Jim Bunning
Jim DeMint
Jodi Rell
John Boehner
John Stossel
John Thune
John William Warner
Kelly Ayotte
Linda Lingle
Linda McMahon
Lou Dobbs
Marco Rubio
Michael Bloomberg
Mitt Romney
Pat Buchanan
Rick Perry
Rush Limbaugh
Sarah Palin
Sean Hannity
Tom Campbell


Keep posting names. I'm going to post this thread again in the what if forum to see if it gets more support. We'll keep the deadline for names open until we have enough.

[Reaganfan]

Haley Barbour
Rick Santorum
Mitch Daniels
George W. Bush
Nikki Haley
Sarah Palin