How would you have voted in 1924?

[S019]

Which of these conservative candidates do you prefer?

[S019]

I say Coolidge, because Davis was a wet and anti-Prohibition

[darklordoftech]

Coolidge because of lynching.

[Some of My Best Friends Are Gay]

Coolidge, because he was remarkably progressive on civil rights for the time... even though I'm obviously diametrically opposed to his policies that didn't relate to the issue of civil rights.

[Politician]

Coolidge, because he was remarkably progressive on civil rights for the time... even though I'm obviously diametrically opposed to his policies that didn't relate to the issue of civil rights.

[Orser67]

Neither, they were both terrible. Coolidge may have been ok enough on civil rights for his era, but it's not like he pushed civil rights as a major issue. It's also worth noting that he signed an immigration bill that made permanent a racially discriminatory immigration quota.

I would've voted for La Follette, who received 16.6% of the vote.

[Wazza [INACTIVE]]

Coolidge. Davis isn't as conservative as people make him out to be...

"Additionally, as much as he was opposed to centralism in politics he was opposed to concentration of capitalism by supporting a number of early progressive laws regulating Interstate commerce and limiting the power and concentration of corporations. Consequently, he felt distinctly out of place in the Republican Party, who supported free-association and free markets and maintained his father's staunch allegiance to the Democratic Party, even as he later represented the interests of business opposed to the New Deal."

[Wazza [INACTIVE]]

BTW HP poll because you forgot Progressive party candidate Robert La Follette who got 17% of the vote and won Wisconsin.

Though again, I'd easily vote for Coolidge out of the 3 with or without hindsight.

[junior chįmp]

Coolidge. Davis isn't as conservative as people make him out to be...

"Additionally, as much as he was opposed to centralism in politics he was opposed to concentration of capitalism by supporting a number of early progressive laws regulating Interstate commerce and limiting the power and concentration of corporations. Consequently, he felt distinctly out of place in the Republican Party, who supported free-association and free markets and maintained his father's staunch allegiance to the Democratic Party, even as he later represented the interests of business opposed to the New Deal."

Davis was also the lead lawyer arguing to keep segregation legal before the SCOTUS in Brown V Board

http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/5-decision/defenders.html

[Frodo]

I'd hold my nose and vote for Silent Cal.   Didn't the Ku Klux Klan play a key role determining the Democratic nominee that year?  Yeah, no thanks.  

I would probably have remained a Republican (albeit of the Teddy Roosevelt Bull-Moose variety) up until the Great Depression.  

[MarkD]

With hindsight, Coolidge, because he appointed only one person to the Supreme Court, and that one appointee was Harlan F. Stone, who turned out to be one of the best Justices the Court has ever had.

[The Mikado]

I'd hold my nose and vote for Silent Cal.   Didn't the Ku Klux Klan play a key role determining the Democratic nominee that year?  Yeah, no thanks.  

Davis was the compromise after neither the Klan-friendly McAdoo nor anti-Klan Smith could clinch the nomination.

[Sestak]

La Follette, obviously.

[TDAS04]

La Follette, obviously.

But out of the two in the poll, Coolidge.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Yeah, this was the zenith of the KKK's power in the 20th century, given they had achieved a major win in Prohibition (which allowed them to have more "legitimate" links with political groups). They had also infiltrated the republican convention as well and intimidated enough delegates to prevent an anti-Klan resolution passing. I believe it was only the influence of Oscar Underwood, who despite being a conservative Southerner despised the Klan, that the KKK's man McAdoo didn't get in.

I enjoy how schizo the dem ticket was, given the veep candidate was WJB's brother, who was if anything even more demagogic than his famous relative.

[Mr. Smith]

Reluctantly Davis, of these two options.

[AtorBoltox]

1924 would have to rank as among the worst choices offered to voters in a Presidential election

[MAINEiac4434]

La Follette. Maybe Foster if I was feeling extra rebellious.

[F. Joe Haydn]

La Follette, obviously.

But out of the two in the poll, Coolidge.

[PSOL]

La Follette, obviously.

But out of the two in the poll, Coolidge.

[UlmerFudd]

Coolidge

[Wazza [INACTIVE]]

Coolidge. Davis isn't as conservative as people make him out to be...

"Additionally, as much as he was opposed to centralism in politics he was opposed to concentration of capitalism by supporting a number of early progressive laws regulating Interstate commerce and limiting the power and concentration of corporations. Consequently, he felt distinctly out of place in the Republican Party, who supported free-association and free markets and maintained his father's staunch allegiance to the Democratic Party, even as he later represented the interests of business opposed to the New Deal."

Davis was also the lead lawyer arguing to keep segregation legal before the SCOTUS in Brown V Board

http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/5-decision/defenders.html

Yeah I know, when I say conservative I was talking more in the sense of resemblance to the specific ideological movement which rose the prominence in the 50s through to the 80s (and onward to the present), not in the sense of  "Conservative means to conserve stuff and Davis was conserving segregation".

[smoltchanov]

Neither, they were both terrible. Coolidge may have been ok enough on civil rights for his era, but it's not like he pushed civil rights as a major issue. It's also worth noting that he signed an immigration bill that made permanent a racially discriminatory immigration quota.

I would've voted for La Follette, who received 16.6% of the vote.

[Sirius_]

Neither, they were both terrible. Coolidge may have been ok enough on civil rights for his era, but it's not like he pushed civil rights as a major issue. It's also worth noting that he signed an immigration bill that made permanent a racially discriminatory immigration quota.

I would've voted for La Follette, who received 16.6% of the vote.

[Middle-aged Europe]

I too would have voted for La Follette who's conspiciously absent from this poll.

Neither Coolidge nor Davis elicit a positive emotional response from me.