Are there any presidential elections where you would have liked both candidates?

[TransfemmeGoreVidal]

and it wasn't either a clear difference between one you liked and didn't or a lesser evil choice? For me the only example in US history I can honestly think of is 1940 given that Willkie was basically just a slightly more pro-business New Dealer and actually may have been to FDR's left on refugee admissions.

[MR DARK BRANDON]

1960, 1968, 1992, 2008, 2012

[Goldwater]

2008 and1992 are both good contenders for me. On the other hand, 1920 is the most "I don't care about either of these people" election.

[TransfemmeGoreVidal]

1960, 1968, 1992, 2008, 2012

All three in 92 or just Clinton and HW? 

[RilakkuMAGA]

1864. McClellan was not a bad guy at all.

1872 too.

[Sumner 1868]

1872 is the best answer. 1952 and 1956 were better than normal races as well.

[Agonized-Statism]

No. If Washington's opponents don't count since they were basically just running for VP, then maybe 1788 and 1792. He was probably the best of the bourgeois revolutionaries because of his pre-retirement burnout-fueled restraint, and he set some good precedents for the republic.

[Vice President Christian Man]

Plenty. 1896-1908 (although I disagreed with McKinley & Taft ideologically), 1924-1956 (although I disagreed with Coolidge & Hoover ideologically), 1976, 1988,  2008-2012 (with retrospect despite ideological disagreements with McCain & Romney).

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

1940. Nothing else comes remotely close.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

1952/1956 is the most obvious.

[Alben Barkley]

2008, 1992, 1988, 1976, 1964 (on a personal level I like both, politically Goldwater was awful but got better as he aged), 1956/1952, 1940, 1936. Probably more but not gonna bother going pre-FDR.

The one where I would have struggled most in actually deciding who to vote for is probably 1988. I might want Bush in office to handle the delicate foreign policy situation going down around that time, and that might or might not outweigh my disgust at Lee Atwater’s campaign.

[heatcharger]

At the time of the election, 2020.

[TDAS04]

I did IRL back in 1996, being the silly 9-year-old that I was, but my opinions of both Bill and Bob are much lower now.

1976 might have been one, but I would have liked Carter more (as I do now), and I would have voted for him.

[VPH]

In 1872, there are things I like about both Greeley and Grant, weird as the former was.

Every major candidate in 1912 had something to admire. Wilson's economic policy influenced by Brandeis, Debs' personal bravery, Taft's trustbusting (actually better than Roosevelt's), a good amount of Teddy's platform.

1952 and 1956 are clear choices too. Stevenson wouldn't have been my choice for nominee either year (go Kefauver) but both him and Ike were great candidates and great statesmen.

[America Needs R'hllor]

At the time of the election, 2020.

Unless calling him a stupid loser counts as liking, you did not like Trump in 2020

[PSOL]

NOTA

[HisGrace]

Grant and Horace Greeley in 1872. Maybe Jackson and JQA.

[President Johnson]

1940 and 1976 in particular.

And from today's perspective certainly 2008 and 2012.

[LAKISYLVANIA]

1940 and 1976 in particular.

And from today's perspective certainly 2008 and 2012.

You're literally the only SPD'er who likes McCain and Romney.

No wonder AfD and BSW are doing so well in your country if that's what SPD has become.

[LAKISYLVANIA]

Ig for me 1976 perhaps? Idk about 1940.

1912 also had 2 candidates but these were Teddy and Debs.

[DavidB.]

2024 probably

[Kleine Scheiße]

1932, 1940, 1976, 1992

[darklordoftech]

1932

You would have liked Herbert Hoover?

[Del Tachi]

Only thinking post-WW2...probably 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1976, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2008 and 2016?

[OSR stands with Israel]

1992 and 1996