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Junior Chimp
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« on: June 11, 2020, 07:51:58 AM » |
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This is tough, because the average candidate in 2012 was imo worse, but 2016 was top-heavy in terms of terribleness. In 2012, Romney and Huntsman were pretty ok, but the rest of the field was miserable. At various times, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain, and Michelle Bachmann were either first or second in national polling, according to RCP. Also Rick Perry, who is maybe not quite as bad as the last four, but still, ugh.
2016 had relatively non-terrible candidates like Jeb!, Rubio, and Kasich, but I'm not sure if there's ever been a worse top two than Trump and Cruz. Some of the lower-tier candidates were also pretty terrible, e.g. Ben Carson and Santorum. Ultimately I went with 2012.
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