How would you have voted?: United States Presidential Elections

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1789: Adams and Clinton
1792: Clinton and Jefferson
1796: Jefferson and Burr
1800: Burr and Clinton^ (assuming I do not live in New York)
1804: Pinckney
1808: Pinckney
1812: Clinton
1816: Monroe
1820: Monroe
1824: Crawford
1828: Jackson
1832: Floyd
1836: Van Buren
1840: Van Buren
1844: Polk
1848: Van Buren
1852: Pierce
1856: Fillmore
1860: Bell
1864: McClellan
1868: Seymour
1872: Grant
1876: Tilden*
1880: Garfield*
1884: Cleveland
1888: Cleveland
1892: Cleveland
1896: Palmer
1900: McKinley
1904: Parker
1908: Taft
1912: Taft
1916: Hughes^
1920: Harding
1924: Davis*
1928: Smith
1932: Hoover^
1936: Landon
1940: Willkie
1944: Dewey
1948: Thurmond
1952: Eisenhower (primaries: Taft)
1956: Eisenhower
1960: Nixon
1964: Goldwater
1968: Wallace^ (primaries: Reagan)
1972: Schmitz (primaries: Ashbrook)
1976: Ford (primaries: Reagan)
1980: Reagan (primaries: Crane)
1984: Reagan
1988: Paul (primaries: DuPont)
1992: Perot (primaries: Buchanan)
1996: Browne (primaries: Forbes)
2000: Browne (primaries: Forbes)
2004: Badnarik (primaries: Dean)
2008: Baldwin (primaries: Paul)
2012: Romney (primaries: Paul)

*I would really be fine with either candidate
^Almost certainly would be different without hindsight

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1789: George Clinton and Edward Telfair^
1792: Thomas Jefferson and George Clinton^
1796: Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr
1800: Thomas Jefferson and George Clinton^¹
1804: Thomas Jefferson
1808: James Monroe
1812: DeWitt Clinton
1816: James Monroe (Caucus: William Crawford)
1820: James Monroe
1824: William Crawford (Contingent Vote: Andrew Jackson)
1828: Andrew Jackson
1832: Andrew Jackson²
1836: Martin Van Buren
1840: Martin Van Buren
1844: James Polk (Convention: Martin Van Buren)
1848: Martin Van Buren
1852: Franklin Pierce
1856: Abstain (Convention: Franklin Pierce)
1860: John Bell
1864: George McClellan (Convention: Horatio Seymour)
1868: Horatio Seymour
1872: Ulysses Grant³ (Convention: James Bayard)
1876: Samuel Tilden
1880: Winfield Hancock⁴ (Convention: Thomas Bayard)
1884: Grover Cleveland
1888: Grover Cleveland
1892: Grover Cleveland
1896: William McKinley⁵ (Convention: Robert Pattison)
1900: William Jennings Bryan⁶
1904: Alton Parker
1908: William Taft
1912: William Taft
1916: Charles Hughes
1920: Warren Harding
1924: Calvin Coolidge
1928: Al Smith
1932: Herbert Hoover⁷
1936: Alfred Landon (Convention: William Borah)
1940: Wendell Willkie (Convention: Robert Taft)
1944: Thomas Dewey (Convention: John Bricker)
1948: Thomas Dewey (Convention: Robert Taft)
1952: Douglas MacArthur (Convention: Robert Taft)
1956: Coleman Andrews
1960: Richard Nixon (Convention: Barry Goldwater)
1964: Barry Goldwater
1968: George Wallace⁸ (Primaries: Ronald Reagan)
1972: John Schmitz (Primaries: John Ashbrook)
1976: Gerald Ford (Primaries: Ronald Reagan)
1980: Ronald Reagan (Primaries: Phil Crane)
1984: David Bergland⁹
1988: Ron Paul (Primaries: Pete DuPont)
1992: Ross Perot (Primaries: Pat Buchanan)
1996: Ross Perot (Primaries: Steve Forbes)
2000: Harry Browne (Primaries: Steve Forbes)
2004: Michael Badnarik (Primaries: Howard Dean)
2008: Chuck Baldwin (Primaries: Ron Paul)
2012: Mitt Romney (Primaries: Ron Paul)
2016: Donald Trump (Primaries: Rand Paul)

^Not an actual ticket
Enthusiastic Vote
¹George Clinton chosen in highsight to avoid the House contingent election.
²Since John Floyd was not an option outside of South Carolina.
³Since sound money is important for me, although Charles O'Conor would have been tempting.
⁴Would have been James Garfield if not for the hindsight knowledge of Charles Guiteau.
⁵See 3, with John Palmer.
⁶Would have been William McKinley⁵ if not for the hindsight knowledge of Leon Czolgosz.
⁷Would have been Franklin Roosevelt if not for the hindsight knowledge of Roosevelt's entire administration.
⁸Would have been Richard Nixon if not for the hindsight knowledge of Nixon's price controls and suspension of gold repayments.
⁹Would have been Ronald Reagan if not for the hindsight knowledge of EMTALA, Simpson-Mazzolli, etc.