Retrospective US Presidential Election: 1808

Vote in the 1808 Retrospective US Presidential Election!

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Nerdlinger

I plan to run through every US presidential election, two per week. The 28 elections from 1789-1896 will be run simultaneously with the 28 elections from 1900-2008. Be sure to vote in each election!

For 1789-1800, I will include in the poll everyone who received at least 5% of the electoral vote. From 1804-2008, I will include everyone who received at least 0.05% of the popular vote. Results for each election will be posted on the dedicated Retrospective US Presidential Election Results Thread (here) and compared to the actual results. The thread for general project discussion is here.

Here's the link to the 1920 election.
 

TNF

As per usual, I'm going with the Federalist candidate for the party's support of a national bank, internal improvements to foster manufacturing, and sane foreign policy measures that don't include bankrupting half of the country.
 

Trotsky

Vote for Jem Madison. Because I'm fucking drunk, and I can't remember who my preferences are this year normally. Or some excuse stupid as shit like that.
 
Aelita

Aelita

TNF said:
As per usual, I'm going with the Federalist candidate for the party's support of a national bank, internal improvements to foster manufacturing, and sane foreign policy measures that don't include bankrupting half of the country.
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Honestly, it's almost Blue and Orange Morality at play here, because none of these aristocrats really have much care for what the majority of people wanted in government or their interests. I guess I'll take an aristocratic party with sound economic, fiscal and foreign policy over an aristocrat who will quixotically go to war with Britain and bankrupt half the country.
 

Evan

Monroe, to keep us out of stupid war with Britain. (Remember, Pickney opposes popular election to the House of Representatives and wants to reopen the slave trade.)
 

TNF

Jello_Biafra said:
Honestly, it's almost Blue and Orange Morality at play here, because none of these aristocrats really have much care for what the majority of people wanted in government or their interests. I guess I'll take an aristocratic party with sound economic, fiscal and foreign policy over an aristocrat who will quixotically go to war with Britain and bankrupt half the country.
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That's true. I think I'd be way more depressed about politics living in the early 19th Century than today, by far.
 

Dean501

Jello_Biafra said:
Honestly, it's almost Blue and Orange Morality at play here, because none of these aristocrats really have much care for what the majority of people wanted in government or their interests. I guess I'll take an aristocratic party with sound economic, fiscal and foreign policy over an aristocrat who will quixotically go to war with Britain and bankrupt half the country.
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Not necessarily true. Pickney was one of the leading forces behind early support for all white males to receive suffrage.
 

Evan

Deano1001 said:
Not necessarily true. Pickney was one of the leading forces behind early support for all white males to receive suffrage.
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He was? I heard that he didn't want either branch of Congress to be popularly elected. (Besides wanting to keep the slave trade open.)
 
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