Most and Least Entertaining Elections

[Dr. Cynic]

1968 would've have been an epic movie. You've got Nixon making a comeback to politics as the safe frontrunner. You've got Humphrey trying to close the gap and you've got crazy Wallace and LeMay for comic relief. Perfect formula. Also, you've got the dramatic moments such as LBJ not wanting to run... Kennedy running and then being shot at his highest moment. You've got Vietnam going on. Mechaman's right. It would've been a hell of a film.

Runner up for me would be 2008. What a cast of characters and I was really in it from the word go. It was exciting and historical. Of course it may have also been exciting for me because at the same time I was partying weekly and having a hell of a fun life.

1992 is barely a blip in my memory banks, but it's there at all because Ross Perot was so colorful.

[Dr. Cynic]

To rank the post-war elections:

1. 1948
2. 1968
3. 1992
4. 2008
5. 1960
6. 1972
7. 1980
8. 1964
9. 1976
10. 2004
11. 2000 (would be lower if not for Florida)
12. 1988
13. 2012
14. 1952
15. 1996
16. 1984
17. 1956 (no real doubt as to the winner)

2008 has to have been more exciting than 1992. It seemed like everybody was into it on both sides.