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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-01-08 04:39 PM Original message |
I've got a trivia question for all of you about presidential election history |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-01-08 04:40 PM Response to Original message |
1. Good one - Certainly no election after World War II |
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Smarmie Doofus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-01-08 04:47 PM Response to Original message |
2. Reagan wasn't particularly popular by '88. nt |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-01-08 04:51 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. He averaged 55% in 1988 |
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Smarmie Doofus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-01-08 04:53 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Then I'll have to go with Hoover after Coolidge/Harding. nt |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-01-08 04:57 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. By all accounts Coolidge left office popular |
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Smarmie Doofus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-01-08 05:07 PM Original message |
Then you'd have to go back to the 1800s, seems to me. |
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tabasco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-01-08 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
13. I think it is incorrect to characterize Grant as wildly unpopular. |
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Smarmie Doofus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-01-08 05:07 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Then you'd have to go back to the 1800s, seems to me. |
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Alexander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-01-08 05:10 PM Response to Original message |
7. 1876. Grant left office mired in scandal, Hayes succeeded him. |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-01-08 05:13 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. OK, we may have a winner here |
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terrell9584 (549 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-01-08 05:23 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Compromise of 1876 |
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terrell9584 (549 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-01-08 05:14 PM Response to Original message |
9. Humphrey would have if Wallace hadn't run |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-01-08 05:20 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. I say Nixon still wins |
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terrell9584 (549 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-01-08 05:32 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Look at Wallace's in states that Johnson won |
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