Runner Ups from Each Election Against Each Other

[100% pro-life no matter what]

2016: Ted Cruz (R-TX) vs. Bernie Sanders (I-D-VT)
2012: Rick Santorum (R-PA) vs. John Wolfe (D-TN)
2008: Mike Huckabee (R-AR) vs. Hillary Clinton (D-NY)
2004: Bill Wyatt (R-CA) vs. John Edwards (D-MA)
2000: John McCain (R-AZ) vs. Bill Bradley (D-NJ)
1996: Pat Buchanan (R-VA) vs. Lyndon LaRouche (D-VA)
1992: Pat Buchanan (R-VA) vs. Jerry Brown (D-CA)
1988: Bob Dole (R-KS) vs. Jesse Jackson (D-SC)
1984: Harold Stassen (R-MN) vs. Gary Hart (D-CO)
1980: George H.W. Bush (R-TX) vs. Ted Kennedy (D-MA)
1976: Ronald Reagan (R-CA) vs. Mo Udall (D-AZ)

My Guesses:
2016: Ted Cruz (people would have been scared by the socialist)
2012: Rick Santorum (who has ever even heard of the other guy)
2008: Hillary Clinton (probably comfortably)
2004: John Edwards (these can get bad when the president runs pretty much unopposed)
2000: John McCain (and, we wouldn't have needed McCain v. Bradley)
1996: Pat Buchanan (two ideologically extreme candidates, but Perot probably doesn't run now)
1992: Jerry Brown (people are put off by Buchanan more than Brown)
1988: Bob Dole (he may be boring, but Jesse Jackson is crazy)
1984: Gary Hart (again, a president running unopposed messes this up)
1980: Ted Kennedy (a really close race, but conservative turnout isn't what it was with Reagan)
1976: Ronald Reagan (he probably wins all 50 states)

[Slow Learner]

2016: Ted Cruz (R-TX) vs. Bernie Sanders (I-D-VT)
2012: Rick Santorum (R-PA) vs. John Wolfe (D-TN)
2008: Mike Huckabee (R-AR) vs. Hillary Clinton (D-NY)
2004: Bill Wyatt (R-CA) vs. John Edwards (D-MA)
2000: John McCain (R-AZ) vs. Bill Bradley (D-NJ)
1996: Pat Buchanan (R-VA) vs. Lyndon LaRouche (D-VA)
1992: Pat Buchanan (R-VA) vs. Jerry Brown (D-CA)
1988: Bob Dole (R-KS) vs. Jesse Jackson (D-SC)
1984: Harold Stassen (R-MN) vs. Gary Hart (D-CO)
1980: George H.W. Bush (R-TX) vs. Ted Kennedy (D-MA)
1976: Ronald Reagan (R-CA) vs. Mo Udall (D-AZ)

My Guesses:
2016: Ted Cruz (people would have been scared by the socialist)
2012: Rick Santorum (who has ever even heard of the other guy)
2008: Hillary Clinton (probably comfortably)
2004: John Edwards (these can get bad when the president runs pretty much unopposed)
2000: John McCain (and, we wouldn't have needed McCain v. Bradley)
1996: Pat Buchanan (two ideologically extreme candidates, but Perot probably doesn't run now)
1992: Jerry Brown (people are put off by Buchanan more than Brown)
1988: Bob Dole (he may be boring, but Jesse Jackson is crazy)
1984: Gary Hart (again, a president running unopposed messes this up)
1980: Ted Kennedy (a really close race, but conservative turnout isn't what it was with Reagan)
1976: Ronald Reagan (he probably wins all 50 states)

I'm sorry, what?

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1976: Udall wins.. Reagan was seen as too extreme.
1980: Ted Kennedy wins, Bush didn't have much elected experience
1984: Stassen wins, Republican year
1988: Dole wins, America not ready yet for black man
1992: Jerry Brown wins, he's not crazy.
1996: LOL, I guess Buchanan has to win by default.
2000: McCain wins, he polled better than Bush
2004: Edwards wins over nobody
2008: Hillary wins
2012: LOL, I guess Santorum has to win by default
2016: Bernie wins

[Kingpoleon]

2016: Ted Cruz (R-TX) vs. Bernie Sanders (I-D-VT)
2012: Rick Santorum (R-PA) vs. John Wolfe (D-TN)
2008: Mike Huckabee (R-AR) vs. Hillary Clinton (D-NY)
2004: Bill Wyatt (R-CA) vs. John Edwards (D-MA)
2000: John McCain (R-AZ) vs. Bill Bradley (D-NJ)
1996: Pat Buchanan (R-VA) vs. Lyndon LaRouche (D-VA)
1992: Pat Buchanan (R-VA) vs. Jerry Brown (D-CA)
1988: Bob Dole (R-KS) vs. Jesse Jackson (D-SC)
1984: Harold Stassen (R-MN) vs. Gary Hart (D-CO)
1980: George H.W. Bush (R-TX) vs. Ted Kennedy (D-MA)
1976: Ronald Reagan (R-CA) vs. Mo Udall (D-AZ)

My Guesses:
2016: Ted Cruz (people would have been scared by the socialist)
2012: Rick Santorum (who has ever even heard of the other guy)
2008: Hillary Clinton (probably comfortably)
2004: John Edwards (these can get bad when the president runs pretty much unopposed)
2000: John McCain (and, we wouldn't have needed McCain v. Bradley)
1996: Pat Buchanan (two ideologically extreme candidates, but Perot probably doesn't run now)
1992: Jerry Brown (people are put off by Buchanan more than Brown)
1988: Bob Dole (he may be boring, but Jesse Jackson is crazy)
1984: Gary Hart (again, a president running unopposed messes this up)
1980: Ted Kennedy (a really close race, but conservative turnout isn't what it was with Reagan)
1976: Ronald Reagan (he probably wins all 50 states)

I'm sorry, what?

Yeah, in 1976, the runner ups were really boring and lacking in humor. Reagan, with his vast legislative experience, defeats Udall, with small executive experience, easily. Udall/Bayh is a very extreme ticket, while Reagan/Percy lack regional and ideological diversity, which actually helps them.

[HisGrace]

1964: RFK vs Scranton (both conventions end in turmoil, with the "draft Scranton" movement unseating Goldwater and RFK staging a coup and taking the nomination from Johnson)- RFK wins since Scranton probably loses more rank and file Republican support than he does with Democrats, plus it was just a few years after the assassination

1968: Rockefeller vs McCarthy- Rockefeller wins in a landslide due to Mccarthy's liberalism and his winning many northeastern states, which is where Humphrey got most of his support in 68.

1976- Reagan vs Udall- Udall, there was just no way a Republican was going to win just a couple years after Watergate. I think a lot of people still viewed Reagan as crazy at the time too.

1980- Bush vs Kennedy- Kennedy obviously does much better in the northeast than Carter, carrying NY and Mass and such and making it a closer race. But Bush still wins based off Carter's unpopularity, and remember Chappaquiddick was still hanging over Kennedy at the time

1988- Dole vs Jackson- Dole in a landslide, for obvious reasons

1992- Brown vs Buchanan- Brown wins a solid victory as Buchanan was/is too crazy for most the country

2000- McCain vs Bradley- McCain wins and doesn't need a court case

2008- Clinton vs Huckabee- Clinton by a similar margin

2016- Cruz vs Sanders- Cruz wins a close one, as the electorate is a little more afraid of a socialist than a rightist.

[Mr. Smith]

1952: Kefauver vs Taft

Both are seen as extreme, but Truman fatigue and an unpopular war favor Senator Taft, although the margins are probably think enough to ironically get a "Kefauver beats Taft" sort of situation from leading liberal newspapers.

1960: Goldwater vs Humphrey

Between Ike's waning popularity and Goldwater being seen as extreme, Humphrey goes in on a landslide, though not quite as large as that of LBJ's IRL since he probably won't take Utah, Idaho, Kansas, Virginia like LBJ did.

1964: R.F. Kennedy vs Rockefeller

Rockefeller easily wins by painting RFK as too extreme and inexperienced.

1968: McCarthy vs Reagan

Reagan wins on "law and order" and takes it by a landslide, also paints McCarthy as a pinko

1972: McCloskey vs Humphrey

Humphrey wins, also in a landslide, probably as a rebuttal to Nixon since, of course the only way McCloskey wins is if Watergate had happened that year.

1976: Reagan vs Udall

Reagan is seen as too extreme, and let's face it Watergate was a real great gift to any Democrat running.


1980: T. Kennedy vs G.H.W. Bush

Bush doesn't play enough hardball to do what Kennedy does to win.

1984: Stassen vs Hart

Hart wins probably 49 states, sans Alabama or Utah anyway...one of those two.

1988: Dole vs Jackson

Obvious Dole win, possibly all 50 states (though not DC).

1992: Buchanan vs Brown

Buchanan is seen as too extreme, loses everywhere but the Deep South.

1996: LaRouche vs Buchanan vs Lamm

The third party actually wins given how extreme Buchanan is and LaRouche is well...

2000: Bradley vs McCain

McCain wins every state Bush won, as well as those he lost by less than 5%.

2008: Santorum vs H. Clinton

Clinton gets 399 EV, losing only the Deep South, the Mormon Spine, and  a few select Plains states.

2012: Terry vs Santorum

Obvious Santorum win.

2016: Sanders vs Cruz

No one likes Cruz, afraid as they may be of a socialist, Cruz would find a way to insult everyone...it would however still be insultingly close.

[HisGrace]

1952: Kefauver vs Taft

Both are seen as extreme, but Truman fatigue and an unpopular war favor Senator Taft, although the margins are probably think enough to ironically get a "Kefauver beats Taft" sort of situation from leading liberal newspapers.

Was Kefauyer really seen as that extreme? It seems like he was viewed as liberal specifically for a Southern Democrat at the time. Taft was one of the discredited pre New Deal isolationist conservatives and would have lost badly, IMO.

[Goldwater]

My guesses:

2016: Ted Cruz (R-TX)* vs. Bernie Sanders (I-D-VT)
2012: Rick Santorum (R-PA)* vs. John Wolfe (D-TN)
2008: Mike Huckabee (R-AR) vs. Hillary Clinton (D-NY)*
2004: Bill Wyatt (R-CA)* vs. John Edwards (D-MA)
2000: John McCain (R-AZ)* vs. Bill Bradley (D-NJ)
1996: Pat Buchanan (R-VA)* vs. Lyndon LaRouche (D-VA)
1992: Pat Buchanan (R-VA) vs. Jerry Brown (D-CA)*
1988: Bob Dole (R-KS)* vs. Jesse Jackson (D-SC)
1984: Harold Stassen (R-MN)* vs. Gary Hart (D-CO)
1980: George H.W. Bush (R-TX)* vs. Ted Kennedy (D-MA)
1976: Ronald Reagan (R-CA)* vs. Mo Udall (D-AZ)

(*indicates the candidate I would vote for.)

[Kingpoleon]

2016: Ted Cruz (R-TX) vs. Bernie Sanders(I/D-VT)**
2012: Rick Santorum (R-PA)** vs. John Wolfe (D-TN)
2008: Mike Huckabee (R-AR) vs. Hillary Clinton (D-NY)**
2004: Bill Wyatt (R-CA)** vs. John Edwards (D-MA)
2000: John McCain (R-AZ)* vs. Bill Bradley (D-NJ)
1996: Pat Buchanan (R-VA)** vs. Lyndon LaRouche (D-VA)
1992: Pat Buchanan (R-VA) vs. Jerry Brown (D-CA)*
1988: Bob Dole (R-KS)* vs. Jesse Jackson (D-SC)
1984: Harold Stassen (R-MN)* vs. Gary Hart (D-CO)
1980: George H.W. Bush (R-TX)* vs. Ted Kennedy (D-MA)
1976: Ronald Reagan (R-CA) vs. Mo Udall (D-AZ)*

*Who I would vote for
**Who I probably would prefer, but would vote Libertarian

[OSR stands with Israel]

For 1972, 1984, 1996, 2004 , 2012 i will do incumbant vs runner up

1968:  Rockefeller vs McCarthy:   , Rockefeller in landslide

1972: Nixon vs Humphrey: Nixon in a decisive victory


1976: Reagan vs Udall  
: Reagan in a close victory

Reagan 279
Udall  259


1980: Bush vs Kennedy : Bush with  a decisive victory

1984: Reagan vs Hart:  Reagan in a landslide

1988: Dole vs Jackson Dole in a  sweep

1992: Buchanan vs Brown: Brown in a landslide

1996: Buchanan vs Clinton: Clinton in a landslide


2000: McCain vs Bradley: McCain with a solid victory


2004: Bush vs Edwards Bush with a decisive victory

2008: Romney vs Clinton : Clinton with a decisive victory

2012: Santorum vs Obama : Obama with a decisive victory

2016: Cruz vs Sanders: Sanders in a nailbiter

[wjx987]

President Lyndon LaRouche, everybody! Yay?