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Title: Presidential elections with two good major party choices Post by: A18 on May 17, 2005, 09:06:12 PM I guess 1924 is the only one.
Title: Re: Presidential elections with two good major party choices Post by: True Democrat on May 17, 2005, 09:53:56 PM 1988, 1976 (at the time), 1956, 1952, and 1940.
Title: Re: Presidential elections with two good major party choices Post by: Speed of Sound on May 17, 2005, 10:44:43 PM 1952, 1956,1832, 1844, 1912 (counting Progressive as second major),
Title: Re: Presidential elections with two good major party choices Post by: True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자) on May 17, 2005, 11:06:21 PM 1844 Polk and Clay
1888 and 1892 Harrison and Cleveland Title: Re: Presidential elections with two good major party choices Post by: Rob on May 17, 2005, 11:13:19 PM 1880, 1904, 1924, 1960.
Title: Re: Presidential elections with two good major party choices Post by: Erc on May 17, 2005, 11:16:12 PM 1880, 1904, 1924, 1960. Sounds about right. Although I probably would have been an ardent Nixon supporter at the time. Title: Re: Presidential elections with two good major party choices Post by: ○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└ on May 18, 2005, 02:14:57 AM 1924 was awful. Every election from 1940-1956 was ok.
Title: Re: Presidential elections with two good major party choices Post by: minionofmidas on May 18, 2005, 02:46:45 AM 1976 was the last election to have two okay major party choices...good is something else...1956 maybe, or if you want better than that, 1916, discounting Wilson's stroke and the consequences. If that doesn't count (since the stroke happened, after all) 1908. My final answer.
EDIT - seems I am indeed confused...I thought Roosevelt ran that year. Myeh. 1860, then. Lincoln vs Douglas. Title: Re: Presidential elections with two good major party choices Post by: CARLHAYDEN on May 18, 2005, 09:30:22 AM Limiting your list to Republicans and Democrats (the case is muddied in re parties before the War between the States):
1956 1952 1924 1904 1892 (maybe) Title: Re: Presidential elections with two good major party choices Post by: nini2287 on May 18, 2005, 01:03:57 PM 1992.
Title: Re: Presidential elections with two good major party choices Post by: Hitchabrut on May 18, 2005, 02:01:18 PM 1948
Title: Re: Presidential elections with two good major party choices Post by: A18 on May 18, 2005, 02:43:01 PM No, I mean elections in which both of the major party candidates would be good presidents in your opinion.
Title: Re: Presidential elections with two good major party choices Post by: PBrunsel on May 18, 2005, 04:39:55 PM 1848, 1876, 1880, 1928, 1952, and 1968 all come to mind.
Title: Re: Presidential elections with two good major party choices Post by: Soup18 on May 20, 2005, 01:27:33 PM The last one was 1924. I can't see how socialism or Catholicism can be a good choice.
Title: Re: Presidential elections with two good major party choices Post by: Beet on May 20, 2005, 04:32:13 PM The last one was 1924. I can't see how socialism or Catholicism can be a good choice. You think every Dem candidate to run since 1924 was a socialist? Title: Re: Presidential elections with two good major party choices Post by: A18 on May 20, 2005, 04:37:56 PM I think he was implying that Hoover was a socialist, and what's his name was Catholic.
Title: Re: Presidential elections with two good major party choices Post by: True Democrat on May 20, 2005, 04:56:15 PM I think he was implying that Hoover was a socialist, and what's his name was Catholic. There was no major party Catholic candidate in 1924. That was Alfred Smith in 1928. Title: Re: Presidential elections with two good major party choices Post by: A18 on May 20, 2005, 04:57:53 PM He said the last one with two good major party candidates was 1924.
Then comes 1928. Obviously Hoover didn't run in 1924 either. He was responding to PBrunsel, I believe. Title: Re: Presidential elections with two good major party choices Post by: Lincoln Republican on May 20, 2005, 11:40:43 PM 1860
Abraham Lincoln GOP Stephen A Douglas DEM 1896/1900 William McKinley GOP William J Bryan DEM 1904 Theodore Roosevelt GOP Alton B Parker DEM 1912 Woodrow Wilson DEM Theodore Rooselvelt Progressive 1916 Woodrow Wilson DEM Charles Evans Hughes GOP 1944 Franklin D Roosevelt DEM Thomas E Dewey GOP 1952/1956 Dwight D Eisenhower GOP Adlai Stevenson DEM Title: Re: Presidential elections with two good major party choices Post by: jokerman on May 21, 2005, 07:52:26 PM There's Truman and......what, you're not talking abot Dewey are you?
Title: Re: Presidential elections with two good major party choices Post by: Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon on May 22, 2005, 02:08:29 AM 1912, Taft and TR were good.
Title: Re: Presidential elections with two good major party choices Post by: Rob on May 22, 2005, 02:16:01 AM There's Truman and......what, you're not talking abot Dewey are you? I don't know why people here like Thomas Dewey either. Can you picture "the little man on the wedding cake" as President? Absolutely terrible. Title: Re: Presidential elections with two good major party choices Post by: Bugs on May 23, 2005, 11:50:33 PM 1844, 1860, 1876, 1916
Title: Re: Presidential elections with two good major party choices Post by: A18 on May 24, 2005, 10:44:16 AM 1912, Taft and TR were good. Yawn. In what presidential election would you not have voted Republican? Note: the Republicans have to have existed at the time. Title: Re: Presidential elections with two good major party choices Post by: Jake on May 24, 2005, 05:45:48 PM 1960, 1968 (Three excellent choices), 1948 (Three excellent choices), a few at the turn of the century, those with Bryan vs. McKinley.
Title: Re: Presidential elections with two good major party choices Post by: jokerman on July 13, 2005, 03:15:31 PM 1912 had three good candidates
Title: Re: Presidential elections with two good major party choices Post by: A18 on July 13, 2005, 05:18:03 PM 1912 had three good candidates Worst election ever Title: Re: Presidential elections with two good major party choices Post by: skybridge on July 14, 2005, 01:35:48 AM 1912 is probably the only one.
Title: Re: Presidential elections with two good major party choices Post by: Jake on July 14, 2005, 01:54:30 AM 1912 is probably the only one. Hopefully, you refer to TR and Taft because Wilson simply was a failure and not "good" in any way. Title: Re: Presidential elections with two good major party choices Post by: skybridge on July 14, 2005, 01:30:51 PM 1912 is probably the only one. Hopefully, you refer to TR and Taft because Wilson simply was a failure and not "good" in any way. I'm pretty divded about Wilson. I like the fact that he introduced child labor laws and granted women suffrage (though it didn't go into effect until Harding), but I can't stand that he introduced the espionage act of 1917 and the followers. Title: Re: Presidential elections with two good major party choices Post by: DanielX on July 18, 2005, 07:58:45 PM Two *good* choices from major party candidates. Geez, not many. 1796 and 1800 have Adams and Jefferson (both good; TJ's better); 1860 had Lincoln, Douglas, and Bell who were all okay but not great; then there's 1884-1892, Cleveland and his opponents were pretty good. Latest with even two okay candidates would be 1948 (Truman and Dewey). After that, there's only one or sometimes none who is good.
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