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  1. Retrospective US Presidential Election: 1896

    It's kinda interesting that Matchett and the SLP want to abolish the presidential veto. If they're successful, all the liberal and socialist presidents we elect might end up getting constrained by conservative congresses. FDR sure would have been constrained considering he used the veto 372...

  2. Retrospective US Presidential Election Results Thread

    Hey guys. I thought I'd do one of these tallies for my votes too just in case anyone's interested and because I like to be colorful. I started in a little late when one of my friends finally convinced me to join up, but I'm glad he did because it's been fun watching the results and meeting...

  3. Retrospective US Presidential Election: 1992

    You might be an oldie, but I'm in my prime. :p But yep there might have been some underhanded tactics in that election. Ya know, arm pinching and bubble gum bribing.

  4. Retrospective US Presidential Election: 1992

    Voted for Clinton when I was 6 years old in my first grade mock election and doing it again now. :cool:

  5. Retrospective US Presidential Election: 1988

    Doesn't really matter to me who started the program. It's like a game of chicken and the egg, but when both are rotten, we still get food poisoning when we eat our lunch. Dukakis is the one that vetoed a bill that would prevent first degree murderers from being eligible for it. For me, that...

  6. Retrospective US Presidential Election: 1988

    I'm not sure how setting convicted murderers free so they can rape and assault again is "progressive." Pretty sure I wouldn't want to live in such a progressive world.

  7. Retrospective US Presidential Election: 1984

    I'm voting for Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro. A democratic president that would probably work well with Congress and a milestone vice president. Not only the first woman but... also the first Italian American. Break that glass ceiling. Viva Italia and Viva la Donna!

  8. Retrospective US Presidential Election: 1980

    Too bad none of these Reagan voters are wandering over to the 1800 retro election to vote for Thomas Jefferson and someone other than Charles Pinckney. ;) TJ is on pace to get shut out of the vice presidency! (because some of his voters were disqualified).

  9. Retrospective US Presidential Election: 1868

    Grant's wonderful reconstruction plan worked so fabulously that he gave up on it in 1872 and allowed all of the things you're so worried about to happen anyway. In my opinion, reconstruction's failure made everything worse than anything Seymour could have possibly done. Why? Instead of...

  10. Retrospective US Presidential Election: 1980

    We're pretty much handing republicans a conservative on a silver platter though... if they would just vote for Anderson. ;)

  11. Retrospective US Presidential Election: 1868

    No that was James Birney. Women's suffrage was basically Gerrit Smith's campaign platform... :rolleyes: Quote from wikipedia...

  12. Retrospective US Presidential Election: 1868

    For me personally, it's two totally different situations. In 1848, slavery was entrenched in the south and generally supported as inevitable by politicians in the north. Even though women weren't slaves (at least other than African American ones), they also lacked any political recognition...

  13. Retrospective US Presidential Election: 1868

    I agree. Radical reconstruction might sound nice on paper, but shoving policy down the throats of people just gets the same response it always got throughout history - resistance. Grant's military occupation of the South set back civil rights down there for a century. Remember, Lincoln...

  14. Retrospective US Presidential Election: 1980

    ATL President Gerald Ford on John Anderson: "He's the smartest guy in Congress, but he insists on voting his conscience instead of party." http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/commercials/1980/john-anderson

  15. Retrospective US Presidential Election: 1868

    Horatio Seymour for a reconstruction policy closer to what Honest Abe actually wanted. It'll be slower, but the country needs to heal not be more and more divided. I think Seymour's statesmen like personality is the kind of president we need in 1868. Seymour, one of the best presidents that...

  16. Retrospective US Presidential Election: 1976

    I'm pretty sure I'll be voting for Anderson. He's a moderate that probably would have worked well with Congress. He admitted that we can't "lower taxes, increase defense spending, and balance the budget at the same time" which is pretty refreshing for a Republican. Definitely should be more...

  17. Retrospective US Presidential Election: 1976

    Ford was okay, but I think it speaks more to Carter being a terrible president. But that's just my opinion.

  18. Retrospective US Electoral College Vote: 1796

    Reading up on the pre-12th amendment procedures, I'm wondering what happens to the Vice President if there's no majority. It says that while the President required a majority of electors, the Vice President did not... Does that mean that the Vice President is determined by the original...

  19. Retrospective US Presidential Election: 1976

    Siren Research Service! I wanted to know more about who Margaret Wright was, so I dug around and found a book by Professor Bruce Glasrud from California State University. Here's a snippet from the book African Americans and the Presidency: The Road to the White House.

  20. Retrospective US Electoral College Vote: 1796

    Oliver Ellsworth was a pretty cool and interesting founding father. I'm probably going to vote for him and either Jefferson or Clinton. Actually a lot of these choices are pretty cool. Except one, but who that is is a secret.
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