Retrospective US Presidential Election: 1924

Vote in the 1924 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 1812 election.
 

Trotsky

Not voting for any arse-face chosen by the Klanbake.

Battlin' Bob. Even though he'll die in less than a year.
 
Aelita

Aelita

I'm holding my nose and voting communist (though technically, the legal face of the party was the Workers Party of America) because I don't think the party is beyond saving, and all the other roads lead to nowhere or a dying party like the SLP.
 

Makemakean

Changing my vote in this election from an earlier list I posted in which I indicated support for Davis. I'll prefer the protectionist Coolidge over Davis on account of his opposition to anti-lynching legislation.

One vote for Republican Calvin Coolidge!
 
RogueBeaver

RogueBeaver

Coolidge is protectionist and insufficiently internationalist/hawkish for my taste, but otherwise I'm happy to vote for him. 85% is good enough.
 
RogueBeaver

RogueBeaver

I don't even see how at least in modern eyes Davis is qualified. No-name former House backbencher from a tiny state whom no one's ever heard of. :p
 

Makemakean

RogueBeaver said:
I don't even see how at least in modern eyes Davis is qualified. No-name former House backbencher from a tiny state whom no one's ever heard of. :p
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By that way of thinking, Lincoln is almost disqualified himself. One term representative from a Frontier state. The Lincoln-Douglas debates? Come on, debating your opponent doesn't automatically qualify your for squat.

In contrast, John W. Davis had at least been US Solicitor General and Ambassador to the United Kingdom (which Joe Kennedy, Sr. briefly believed would qualify him for the Democratic nomination in 1940).

If you want someone properly unqualified, go for Wendell Willkie a business man unelected to political office before who just eight years earlier had been a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, supporting the very guy he was running against. I remain amazed that he beat Robert Taft and Thomas Dewey for the nomination...
 
Evil Doctor

Evil Doctor

Tsao Tongyu said:
I think we've figured that out. Though I am sorely tempted to vote for the candidate with 'Nations' in his name.
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For the record that's the only reason for voting for him. Had no idea about the KKK connection otherwise I would have gone for the second coolest name on the list Calvin Coolidge...:D
 
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