What if we could go back in time and vote again on past presidential elections? Who would we vote for, using 20/20 hindsight?
Scripps Howard News Service polled Americans to find out. What winner would have lost? Well, Nixon, of course, would have lost his re-election bid in 1972. And Bush 42 would have lost — twice.
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1964 |
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Lyndon B. Johnson (D) |
50% |
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Barry Goldwater (R) |
23% |
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1968 |
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Richard Nixon (R) |
34% |
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Hubert H. Humphrey (D) |
31% |
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George Wallace (I) |
15% |
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1972 |
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George McGovern (D) |
42% |
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Richard Nixon (R) |
39% |
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1976 |
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Jimmy Carter (D) |
52% |
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Gerald Ford (R) |
35% |
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1980 |
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Ronald Reagan (R) |
56% |
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Jimmy Carter (D) |
30% |
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John Anderson (I) |
6% |
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1984 |
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Ronald Reagan (R) |
64% |
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Walter Mondale (D) |
24% |
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1988 |
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George H. Bush (R) |
53% |
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Michael Dukakis (D) |
33% |
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1992 |
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Bill Clinton (D) |
52% |
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George H. Bush (R) |
30% |
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Ross Perot (I) |
12% |
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1996 |
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Bill Clinton (D) |
56% |
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Bob Dole (R) |
25% |
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Ross Perot (Ref.) |
12% |
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2000 |
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Al Gore (D) |
46% |
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George W. Bush (R) |
38% |
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Ralph Nader (G) or |
9% |
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2004 |
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John Kerry (D) |
46% |
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George W. Bush (R) |
40% |
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Ralph Nader (I) |
7% |