How would you vote in these Southern Dems vs GOP runner ups elections since 1976

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In these elections Im choosing a southerner who ran in the dem primary but didnt get the nomination.If no other southern ran I will chose the southern dem who won or the most powerful southern dem in congress(in case there was not even one southern dem who ran). If you dislike both candidates vote for who you think is the lesser of two evils

1976: Reagan vs George Wallace
1980: Bush vs Carter(no other southern dem who was a runner up)
1984: Reagan(no runner up) vs Ernest Hollings
1988: Dole vs Al Gore
1992: Buchanan vs Douglas Wilder
1996: Buchanan vs Clinton
2000: McCain vs Gore
2004: Bush vs  Edwards
2008: Huckabee vs Edwards
2012: Santorum vs Landrieu
2016: Cruz vs Webb


these are my votes:

1976: Reagan
1980: Bush
1984: Reagan
1988: Dole
1992: Wilder
1996: Clinton
2000: McCain
2004: Bush
2008: Huckabee
2012: Landrieu
2016: Webb

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I really don't even know much about the 1984 and 1992 dem candidates in this case but in 1984 I'm a NBR voters( Nobody But Reagan Voter ) and in 1992 I'm a ABB voter (Anyone but Buchanan voter)

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Why do so many people who would have voted for Reagan in 1980 vote for Carter over Bush . Bush was still to the right of Carter on nearly ever issue . I get Carter is probably personally more pro life then Bush but bush is more likely to nominate a pro life justice then Carter , so practically bush was more pro life then Carter .

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1976: Wallace
1980: Abstain
1984: Reagan
1988: Dole
1992: Buchanan
1996: Buchanan
2000: Abstain
2004: Abstain
2008: Huckabee
2012: Santorum
2016: Cruz

Not comin' at you on a Friday, friend, but I think anyone who votes for someone whose main mark on history was standing for legal segregation of the races should at least try to explain himself, LOL.  Why the Wallace vote, if I my ask?

Anyway, I'd vote all Republican except for Clinton over Buchanan in 1996.

Even rick over Mary

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1976: Wallace
1980: Carter
1984: Hollings
1988: Gore
1992: Buchanan
1996: Clinton
2000: Gore
2004: Bush
2008: Huckabee
2012: Landrieu
2016: Webb

I thought I remembered you as somewhat of a moderate Republican, especially on social issues.  Given the Southern Democrat love, was I mistaken?  LOL.

This is mostly a function of the Republican runners-up being awful and my unusual infatuation with Jimmy Carter.   Bob Dole and John McCain are some of my least favorite Republican politicians, and Santorum and Cruz are rather detestable as well. 

You still would vote for Wallace over Reagan !

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1976: Wallace
1980: Carter
1984: Hollings
1988: Gore
1992: Buchanan
1996: Clinton
2000: Gore
2004: Bush
2008: Huckabee
2012: Landrieu
2016: Webb

I thought I remembered you as somewhat of a moderate Republican, especially on social issues.  Given the Southern Democrat love, was I mistaken?  LOL.

This is mostly a function of the Republican runners-up being awful and my unusual infatuation with Jimmy Carter.   Bob Dole and John McCain are some of my least favorite Republican politicians, and Santorum and Cruz are rather detestable as well. 

You still would vote for Wallace over Reagan !

George Wallace was a terrific judge and governor.

Reagan was a race-baiting, corrupt, anti-intellectual actor.

George Wallace the guy who supported segregation

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George Wallace the guy who supported segregation

Ronald Reagan made his "states' rights" speech at the Neshoba County Fair in 1980, years after George Wallace disavowed segregation.

Which doesn't have to mean it's about race issues . States rights is in the constitution and he always talked about how the Feds took power away from the states and the pepole.

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Del, I didn't mean to say that Midwesterners WERE more "dignified" in their conservatism, just that maybe they fancied themselves so.

The Midwest has not been a historically conservative region , most of the conservatives Uptil 1994 came from the Western States or the northeast . Only state from Mideast that I would say has had notable conservatives were from Ohio

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Del, I didn't mean to say that Midwesterners WERE more "dignified" in their conservatism, just that maybe they fancied themselves so.

The Midwest has not been a historically conservative region , most of the conservatives Uptil 1994 came from the Western States or the northeast . Only state from Mideast that I would say has had notable conservatives were from Ohio

What?!  FDR's strongest opposition was from the Plains.  It was the first region to totally turn on the New Deal.

not midwest

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Del, I didn't mean to say that Midwesterners WERE more "dignified" in their conservatism, just that maybe they fancied themselves so.

The Midwest has not been a historically conservative region , most of the conservatives Uptil 1994 came from the Western States or the northeast . Only state from Mideast that I would say has had notable conservatives were from Ohio

What?!  FDR's strongest opposition was from the Plains.  It was the first region to totally turn on the New Deal.

not midwest

Does your phone not automatically capitalize the first word of a sentence for you?

Again I'm posting on a forum not writing my own blog .

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Del, I didn't mean to say that Midwesterners WERE more "dignified" in their conservatism, just that maybe they fancied themselves so.

The Midwest has not been a historically conservative region , most of the conservatives Uptil 1994 came from the Western States or the northeast . Only state from Mideast that I would say has had notable conservatives were from Ohio

What?!  FDR's strongest opposition was from the Plains.  It was the first region to totally turn on the New Deal.

not midwest

Does your phone not automatically capitalize the first word of a sentence for you?

Again I'm posting on a forum not writing my own blog .

So do you disable the automatic caps, or...?

Maybe by accident I disable it