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« on: December 12, 2015, 01:43:01 AM »
Paul Wellstone, full stop.
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« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2015, 03:09:27 AM »
Jim Webb
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« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2015, 03:49:39 AM »
Post-2000ish Jerry Brown

I will second Wellstone. I could see him running in 2004.
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« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2015, 04:09:56 AM »
Some might say Harold Stassen?
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« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2015, 05:23:37 AM »
Patrick J. Buchanan.
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« Reply #5 on: December 12, 2015, 10:54:10 AM »
Henry Clay
Robert F. Kennedy
Hubert Humphrey
Walter Mondale
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« Reply #6 on: December 12, 2015, 11:50:30 AM »
Henry Clay.
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« Reply #7 on: December 12, 2015, 11:52:02 AM »
« Edited: December 12, 2015, 11:55:31 AM by Torie »

We have a winner!  There is no question about this one. It's an f'ing tragedy he was never elected. As it is, without him, the compromise of 1850 might not have happened, and if the South had seceded at that time, it would have been successful. The delay of a decade tipped the balance of power decisively to the North. Percentage wise, the highest immigration decade in the US was the 1850's, and almost all of that immigration was to the North, as it began to rapidly industrialize. That was when the Hudson Valley industrialized I might add, and became perhaps the most important node of munitions making in the North.
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« Reply #8 on: December 12, 2015, 01:25:39 PM »
Quote from: Frodo on December 12, 2015, 10:54:10 AM
Henry Clay
Robert F. Kennedy
Hubert Humphrey
Walter Mondale


All of these, and I'll add James Weaver, Robert La Follette, Henry Wallace, Adlai Stevenson, George McGovern, and Ted Kennedy.
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« Reply #9 on: December 12, 2015, 01:29:55 PM »
McCain
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« Reply #10 on: December 12, 2015, 01:35:45 PM »
Al Gore.
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« Reply #11 on: December 12, 2015, 01:51:26 PM »
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« Reply #12 on: December 12, 2015, 02:09:59 PM »
My top four: Robert Kennedy, Scoop Jackson, Henry Wallace, and Robert La Follette
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« Reply #13 on: December 12, 2015, 03:13:27 PM »
1. Nelson Rockefellwr
2. Ross Perot
3. Jim Webb
4. Jon Huntsman
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« Reply #14 on: December 12, 2015, 04:02:45 PM »
Henry Clay is almost the objectively correct answer here; another 19th century figure who might've made a fantastic President would've been William Seward, or (in spite of his lack of interest in the post) William Sherman. For the 20th century, Barry Goldwater comes to mind, and if you're looking for a recent answer, John McCain has to take the cake.
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« Reply #15 on: December 12, 2015, 04:04:40 PM »
Huey Long, Henry Ford, Ron Paul.
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« Reply #16 on: December 12, 2015, 04:32:07 PM »
« Edited: May 05, 2019, 03:08:43 PM by My Immortal »
My old list was terrible. Frank Church, James B. Weaver, Thaddeus Stevens, and William Wirt.
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« Reply #17 on: December 12, 2015, 10:30:30 PM »
Bobby Kennedy and Henry Clay, absolutely.
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« Reply #18 on: December 12, 2015, 10:38:16 PM »
Hubert Humphrey
Walter Mondale
Paul Wellstone

Good Minnesota Democrats lose to the detriment of our nation.
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« Reply #19 on: December 12, 2015, 10:45:24 PM »
I liked Tom Ridge but he's never shown any interest in running.
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« Reply #20 on: December 12, 2015, 11:15:07 PM »
Henry Clay
Thaddeus Stevens
Benjamin Wade
Huey Long
Estes Kefauver
Hubert H. Humphrey
Robert F. Kennedy
Henry "Scoop" Jackson
Jennings Randolph
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« Reply #21 on: December 13, 2015, 12:30:32 AM »
Top Five:  Fredrick Douglass, HHH, RFK, Thaddeus Stevens, George McGovern
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« Reply #22 on: December 13, 2015, 01:06:59 AM »
Henry Clay
Eugene Debs
Robert La Follette
Huey Long
Henry Wallace
RFK
Shirley Chisholm
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« Reply #23 on: December 13, 2015, 02:35:34 AM »
Barry Goldwater
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« Reply #24 on: December 13, 2015, 03:19:38 AM »
Franklin
John Fremont
Mark Hatfield
James Baker
Scoop Jackson
Bob Dole
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