Who would you have voted for in...?

[Wakie]

Well ... hindsight is 20-20 but I'll try to be honest about who I would have backed at the time .

1824 - John Quincy Adams
1828 - John Quincy Adams
1832 - Henry Clay
1836 - Daniel Webster
1840 - James Birney
1844 - Henry Clay
1848 - No Vote

In the election Taylor would have been too pro-slavery, Cass's policy of "let the states decide" would have sunk him for me, Van Buren's economic record and Jacksonian roots flunk him in my book, and Gerrit Smith had good intentions but was kinda crazy (a 19th century Ross Perot).

1852 - John Parker Hale
1856 - John Fremont
1860 - Abraham Lincoln
1864 - Abraham Lincoln
1868 - US Grant
Who knew his administration would be so messed up?
1872 - US Grant
1876 - Samuel Tilden
1880 - Winfield Hancock
1884 - Grover Cleveland
1888 - Grover Cleveland
1892 - Grover Cleveland
1896 - William Jennings Bryan
1900 - William Jennings Bryan
1904 - Theodore Roosevelt
1908 - William Howard Taft
1912 - Theodore Roosevelt
1916 - Charles Evans Hughes
1920 - James Cox
1924 - John Davis
1928 - Al Smith
1932 - Franklin Roosevelt
1936 - Franklin Roosevelt
1940 - Franklin Roosevelt
1944 - Franklin Roosevelt
1948 - Harry Truman
1952 - Dwight Eisenhower
1956 - Dwight Eisenhower
1960 - John Kennedy
1964 - Lyndon Johnson
1968 - Hubert Humphrey
Would have originally been a Bobby Kennedy supporter.
1972 - George McGovern
Would have initially backed Scoop Jackson.
1976 - Jimmy Carter
Would have initially backed Scoop Jackson.
1980 - Jimmy Carter
A Carter supporter throughout.
1984 - Walter Mondale
Initially a John Glenn supporter.
1988 - Michael Dukakis
Initially a Gary Hart supporter.
1992 - Bill Clinton
A Clinton supporter throughout.
1996 - Bill Clinton
2000 - Al Gore
Voted for Gore in Primary.
2004 - John Kerry
Voted for Kerry in Primary.

Again, I did my best to place myself "in the moment".