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Losing U.S. Presidential Candidates in History

Try to name all the candidates who got at least 10% of the popular vote, but still lost.
Parties: Democratic Republican Other
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First submittedNovember 6, 2012
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Year
Candidate
2024
Kamala Harris
2020
Donald Trump
2016
Hillary Clinton
2012
Mitt Romney
2008
John McCain
2004
John Kerry
2000
Al Gore
1996
Bob Dole
1992
George H.W. Bush
1992
Ross Perot
1988
Michael Dukakis
1984
Walter Mondale
1980
Jimmy Carter
1976
Gerald Ford
1972
George McGovern
1968
Hubert Humphrey
1968
George Wallace
1964
Barry Goldwater
1960
Richard Nixon
1956
Adlai Stevenson
1952
Adlai Stevenson
1948
Thomas Dewey
1944
Thomas Dewey
1940
Wendell Willkie
Year
Candidate
1936
Alf Landon
1932
Herbert Hoover
1928
Al Smith
1924
John Davis
1924
Robert La Follette, Sr.
1920
James Cox
1916
Charles Evans Hughes
1912
Theodore Roosevelt
1912
William Taft
1908
William Jennings Bryan
1904
Alton B. Parker
1900
William Jennings Bryan
1896
William Jennings Bryan
1892
Benjamin Harrison
1888
Grover Cleveland
1884
James Blaine
1880
Winfield Hancock
1876
Samuel Tilden
1872
Horace Greeley
1868
Horatio Seymour
1864
George McClellan
1860
John Breckinridge
1860
Stephen Douglas
Year
Candidate
1860
John Bell
1856
John Fremont
1856
Millard Fillmore
1852
Winfield Scott
1848
Lewis Cass
1848
Martin Van Buren
1844
Henry Clay
1840
Martin Van Buren
1836
William Henry Harrison
1832
Henry Clay
1828
John Quincy Adams
1824
Henry Clay
1824
William Crawford
1824
Andrew Jackson
1820
Uncontested
1816
Rufus King
1812
DeWitt Clinton
1808
Charles Pinckney
1804
Charles Pinckney
1800
John Adams
1796
Thomas Jefferson
1792
Uncontested
1789
Uncontested
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134 Recent Comments
Quizmaster
+44
Level ∞
Nov 26, 2020
We are now actively doing our part to make the world a better place by discouraging partisan political discussion. Going forward, comments about current politics may be deleted and could result in bans.
jamesjunkers
+6
Level 15
Nov 7, 2012
How did only 98% of people get romney?
kalbahamut
+12
Level 80
Jan 6, 2013
He's just that forgettable.

I got most back to 1960, and the first few, plus most that ran unsuccessfully for a 2nd term or had an unsuccessful 1st bid before they won. I also got Al Smith just on a complete guess, whoever that is, when I was typing in random common names.

jennywren21
+3
Level 63
Jul 13, 2014
Same for me; I have only been voting since the 90's; so after that I started with other presidents, knowing that some would have lost their first bid, and after that, it was Smith, Parker, etc- common last names (which is also a fun quiz on here too).
Needle41
+5
Level 28
Feb 15, 2017
Al Smith was the first Catholic nominated by one of the major parties. Obviously not the first winner (Kennedy).
kalbahamut
+3
Level 80
Aug 25, 2019
Learned more about Smith a couple days ago watching a documentary on the Gilded Age.
JackintheBox
+2
Level 82
Jan 22, 2021
He's not forgettable
kalbahamut
+17
Level 80
Jan 22, 2021
Being the only Republican in the Senate to do his duty and vote to convict and remove Trump distinguished him more in the annals of history than being a losing presidential candidate, and I'm sure he will be remembered more for it.
Cyclonus
+1
Level 86
Feb 18, 2025
Sorry, but this is utterly nonsensical wishful thinking, clearly stemming from your own personal political biases, as opposed any kind of rational analysis. A century from now, Mitt Romney will be remembered exactly as well as the losing candidate from a century ago is remembered today. That's John Davis, in case it didn't immediately spring to mind. And of course it didn't because why would it?

So basically, the name "Mitt Romney" will be known only by a small number of history nerds who memorized a list of losing presidential candidates... and even those nerds won't know anything more about him than his name.

Note that I am not, nor have I ever been a Trump supporter. I am simply capable of rational analysis.

NV1
+1
Level 55
Mar 29, 2021
...and getting the JFK Profile in Courage award for doing so :)
PoetsCorner
+4
Level 87
Dec 26, 2022
Who's not forgettable?

Sorry, I forgot.

rocamorar
+3
Level 79
Nov 11, 2016
Do you remember the name of the losing candidate of last year's elections in Japan? In China? Germany?
FinlandForever19
+28
Level 86
Feb 17, 2017
No I don't. Because no one really cares about Japanese elections, nor should they. USA USA USA
iRDM
+1
Level 80
Mar 9, 2023
LOLOLOL
Maladroit
+7
Level 50
Feb 23, 2018
Japan has upwards of 127 million residents. I suspect they do a bit of caring about who leads their country.
RabidWombat
+9
Level 58
Nov 3, 2019
@Aesthus im pretty sure hes just messing around by the way he typed "USA USA USA" but again it is all about the USA USA USA
tzhg
+25
Level 59
Feb 1, 2020
There aren't many elections in China.
ing
+20
Level 73
Nov 26, 2020
Sure there are. There just aren't a lot of candidates.
camus
+3
Level 79
Dec 23, 2020
Germany: Schulz, Steinmeier, Steinbrück, Schröder, Stoiber (S seems to be unlucky) and everyone back to 1949. France: Le Pen jr., Sarkozy, Royal, Le Pen sr. UK: Corbyn, Corbyn, Milliband, Brown. It's good to know at least some of these names, and I'd like to get better at it. Japan: no idea, China: I don't think there's a losing candidate there.
camus
+2
Level 79
Jun 22, 2021
And now the Social Democrats have chosen Scholz as their candidate. Will they never learn that you can't win with an S?
JWatson24
+2
Level 71
Jan 29, 2022
Well Scholz did end up winning so there's that :)
BB123
+6
Level 50
Aug 17, 2017
In a century from now, the likes of Dewey (lost in a big upset), Clinton (most successful First Lady ever in her own right), Goldwater (conservative hero) and McGovern (liberal hero) will all be vastly more remember than Romney, McCain and Kerry I suspect.
chondrichthyess
+12
Level 60
Nov 2, 2017
Clinton will only be remembered as "Bill's wife". Her only success has been riding the coattails of her husband. She is already irrelevant while McCain, Romney, and Kerry are still making things happen
chrslg
+1
Level 36
Nov 29, 2025
Yet, whatever you think of the reason, that is still a reason why she will be remembered. As least for the exact same reason why I knew when I typed her name, that it will also check "DeWitt Clinton". I have no idea who DeWitt Clinton is (except that I know that places called "Clinton" are usually named so after him). But, even before Hillary became someone else than a first lady, I would have been able to remember that a "Clinton" in the past lost a presidential election. Just because of the name coincidence. So, in the future, Hillary will be at least remembered for that: "yet another Clinton candidate", plus, that one happens to be a former first lady, which is a first.

(Note that I don't take any position on your internal politics here. I am French. But that gives me an external objective view. Hillary will be remembered. If not for glorious reason like secretary of state, or infamous, like the one who lost to trump, at least as "first lady who ran for president")

Cooldrive
+14
Level 64
Nov 6, 2017
Mrs. Clinton over Eleanor Roosevelt? I think you probably forgot her. Happens to me too.
Maladroit
+9
Level 50
Feb 23, 2018
Clinton? Most successful first lady ever? She's the one who was cheated on while in office. Kind of an interesting choice there, bud.
jmellor13
+12
Level 68
Dec 23, 2020
That has no bearing on her accomplishments as First Lady, which were significant by the standards of the role. FDR died while he was president. That doesn't mean he wasn't a good one.
RobNobody
+5
Level 80
Nov 14, 2024
"The one who was cheated on while in office"? Off the top of my head, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jacqueline Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson, and Florence Harding all also share that distinction.
Jacktheguy
+11
Level 93
Dec 23, 2020
Clinton's more likely to be remembered as the first woman who got the closest to being elected President.
IsleAuHaulte
+9
Level 92
Jan 30, 2021
Hilary Clinton was the first woman to be elected by the American people as President. That is an important historical note, even if it only became a footnote because of the antebellum Electoral College system.
buck1017
+1
Level 78
Nov 7, 2024
antebellum? It's in the constitution. It wasn't created after the Civil War. It was always there. Even the "winner take all" started in 1836, decades before the civil war.
RobNobody
+4
Level 80
Nov 14, 2024
That's what "antebellum" means: before the war. That's what they're saying, that the electoral college is an artifact of a time when the Southern slave-holding states were able to disproportionately increase their states' voting power.
Cyclonus
+1
Level 86
Feb 18, 2025
Except that the post civil war constitutional amendments invalidated the three-fifths compromise, since there were no longer any slave states that could use it to disproportionately increase their voting power.
chrslg
+1
Level 36
Nov 29, 2025
Yes, sure. The 3/5 compromise is an example of "antebellum" strange things in your system, that was removed by amendments. And electoral college (as well as the existence of Maine) is an example of "antebellum" strange thing in your system that weren't removed by amendments. It is not because 3/5 compromise was cancelled that every such "antebellum" compromise (about slave/abolitionist balance) were.

So, that's a fact: electoral college, exactly like Maine, is a "antebellum" compromise. And yes, there were other reasons, but also now obsolete, for electoral college. Namely the fact that back then people knew their local electors, but have never heard about the presidential candidates. So they voted for electors. Nowadays, it is the opposite: nobody even know who the electors are, their name is not even on the ballot! (being said without any judgement. I am not from your country. So, I am not claiming that Maine should be reattached to Massachusetts :D)

JWatson24
+4
Level 71
Jan 29, 2022
I really hope McCain is remembered. I was having a conversation with my family the other day about his time in captivity in Vietnam--not only the torture he went through, but how he refused to be released before his colleagues even when offered to do so. And he did a lot of other great things too, both in his career and his personal life--pushing for immigration reform, campaign finance reform, normalizing relations with Vietnam (even after what he went through), adopting a young sick orphan, and through it all being kind not only to his fellow Republicans but also his political rivals across the aisle (such as Ted Kennedy). We all have different political views in my family, but we also all agree that he was a damn good man, something that's true of very few politicians. He really deserved to be President.
Froststar101
+1
Level 73
Feb 26, 2025
No one remembers McGovern now and no one will remember him in 100 years any more than Al Smith, who I'm sure everyone regarded as a major figure during his time.
kalbahamut
+17
Level 80
Jan 6, 2013
Henry Clay, most accomplished loser in presidential history. I remember learning about him in 10th grade history.
Hdny42
+3
Level 66
Mar 27, 2013
You mean loser who didn't end up winning eventually I expect...Henry Clay is an accomplished political figure, but he doesn't rank above John Adams or Thomas Jefferson I would think. As for Adams, I believe that at the time he ran for President he was, and still stands as, the most accomplished person ever to be elected President for the 1st time. He had been the driving force at the Continental Congress in declaring Independence, had gone to Paris and then to Amsterdam to negotiate alliances and was a signatory and negotiator of the Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War, served as the 1st US Ambassador to Great Britain, and was then of course the first Vice President. With all of that to his credit, I would put Adams still to this day as the most qualified man ever elected President. Both he, Jefferson, and some others on the list who were Presidents before or after they lost, are also more accomplished than Clay.
kalbahamut
+4
Level 80
Jun 1, 2013
yes, I meant that Clay was a loser in that he repeatedly ran and lost and never actually won. He was much better at losing presidential races than almost anyone unless you want to count people like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, or Lyndon LaRouche.. but they were never serious contenders.

Of course Clay's accomplishments didn't even come close to matching Adams' or Jefferson's or Roosevelt's, who all later won.

mf3
+3
Level 90
Nov 26, 2020
Harold Stassen (Republican governor of Minnesota) ran for president in in 1952, 1964, 1968, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, and 1992.
IsleAuHaulte
+2
Level 92
Nov 30, 2020
Interesting. I had to google Stassen.

The first thing I noticed was that he died on March 4, the date of presidential inauguration until FDR's second term.

He was the youngest ever governor of Minnesota, but after 4 years of that job his political success evaporated.

He lived to 94, dying in 2001 and as noted tried for the presidency the last time at 85.

kalbahamut
+2
Level 80
Dec 24, 2020
Stassen falls into the "not a serious contender" category. Like Charles R. Doty.
kalbahamut
+4
Level 80
Jun 1, 2013
William Jennings Bryan was another one who was always running and losing. I remember learning about him, as well. He's tied with Clay here for most appearances. Though Clay's career of losing elections was longer than Bryan's. He was at it for 20+ years.
buck1017
+5
Level 78
Jun 23, 2015
Based on what I learned in history class, the biggest injustice to the office of the president was the fact that neither Henry Clay nor William Jennings Bryan held office. Both would have been more competent than the presidents that we had during that time. Perhaps we wouldn't have had a depression in the mid 1800s had Clay been there. Maybe we would have actually had a competent president at the turn of the century instead of a revolving door of one-term buffoons if Bryan took office. Who knows.
FreeStater
+1
Level 79
May 2, 2023
Bryan's main platform was just populism and silver—I don't imagine he would last long.
tazzerman
+1
Level 46
Apr 29, 2025
What about Theodore Roosevelt, though?

McKinley's assassination was not his own fault.

cjkfutball
+6
Level 98
Nov 22, 2015
William Jennings Bryan

John Scopes monkey trial

(look up)

tazzerman
+1
Level 46
Apr 29, 2025
Yeah, the guy had terrible theology.

Didn't he know that Cain's wife was his sister.

That wasn't illegal back then, and if mankind were created perfectly, then recessive genes would not make diseases.

loganite
+3
Level 93
Jul 13, 2016
Why the picture of Dewey, just out of curiosity?
Baltimorean
+5
Level 66
Aug 6, 2016
When the Republicans nominated him in 1944 Eleanor Roosevelt famously said that he looked like the little man on the top of the wedding cake. And the Chicago Tribune prematurely declared him the winner in 1948, which might cement his role in history as the man who finished second. The Trib still hasn't gotten over it: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/chi-chicagodays-deweydefeats-story-story.html. It probably never will.
ander217
+6
Level 74
Nov 11, 2016
Several copies of Newsweek's "Madam President" issue were sold before sales were stopped and the remaining ones recalled. The President Trump issue will be shipped next week. Oops. http://nypost.com/2016/11/09/national-recall-after-newsweek-misfires-with-clinton-cover/
Cooldrive
+2
Level 64
Nov 6, 2017
Tallulah Bankhead called him "the man on the wedding cake."
IsleAuHaulte
+5
Level 92
Nov 30, 2020
Voters couldn't decide whether he looked like Clark Gable or a silent movie villain waiting to tie the nation to railroad tracks.
Pachacuti
+3
Level 70
Oct 30, 2016
In 1848 Martin Van Buren won 10.1% of the popular vote as the Free Soil candidate
Quizmaster
+4
Level ∞
Nov 9, 2016
Added that. Thanks.
Jerry928
+17
Level 76
Nov 10, 2016
Everyone seems to know about DeWitt Clinton in 1812 now. Is this the luckiest Jetpunk type-in ever?
Zooty
+5
Level 70
Nov 10, 2016
Hugh Johnson, Times person of the year 1933, gives him a good run for his money.
BowlZ
+2
Level 77
Dec 28, 2020
We should erect him a statue
PoetsCorner
+2
Level 87
Dec 9, 2021
Nope. If you know your New York History, the great DeWitt Clinton was the man behind the Erie Canal and the grid plan of New York City's streetscape. A great mayor, a great governor, and would have been a great president.
Alex99
+3
Level 46
Nov 11, 2016
Interesting to see the 2012 comments at the last election. Just finished US election and Donald Trump is president. Will be interesting to say the least.
eSwatini
+3
Level 59
Jan 22, 2021
Yes.... Very interesting.
oupacer
+3
Level 74
Nov 11, 2016
Typing Harrison only got me one answer. Just William not Benjamin
Quizmaster
+10
Level ∞
Nov 12, 2016
It gave me both. I blame gremlins.
plattitude
+4
Level 95
Dec 2, 2020
Typing "Harison" with one R gets just William, and not Benjamin. Same thing happens on the US Presidents quiz.
Quizmaster
+6
Level ∞
Dec 2, 2020
This has been fixed.
stubblyhead
+5
Level 74
Nov 11, 2016
Shouldn't Strom Thurmond be on this list? He ran in 1948 as a Dixiecrat and won 39 electoral votes.
Needle41
+4
Level 28
Feb 23, 2017
However, I don't think he won the necessary popular vote % to appear on here. I agree with you, and would include him, considering that the electoral vote is how the President is decided. Thurmond was infinitely closer to the Presidency in the end than someone like Perot who won literally millions of votes, but no electors to show for it.
dewey1971
+9
Level 69
Nov 11, 2016
Poor old Eugene Debs never made 10%
manchesterutd10
+3
Level 59
Apr 26, 2017
I guessed him as well haha
Elan
+5
Level 66
Nov 12, 2016
I managed to be the one dummy who didn't get DeWitt Clinton...
pmack18
+2
Level 47
Nov 14, 2016
Good quiz!
Gamer1162
+12
Level 59
Jan 7, 2017
Press F to pay respects to Horace Greely, the only candidate to have died during an election process.
awesomeman259
+2
Level 49
Aug 25, 2017
F
HinesBrothers
+2
Level 77
Dec 12, 2019
F What about Edward and Robert Kennedy? Didn't they die during primaries?
tazzerman
+1
Level 46
Apr 29, 2025
F But they weren't the nominees
Needle41
+2
Level 28
Feb 15, 2017
Interestingly enough, Strom Thurmond earned about 2% of the vote in 1948, yet still won the electoral vote in 4 Southern States. Rules of the quiz didn't admit him, and rightfully so, but I tried him anyway, to no avail.
fortoj
+6
Level 68
Apr 3, 2017
aaron burr?
DarthKnight
+1
Level 91
May 19, 2025
dang fool
manchesterutd10
+4
Level 59
Apr 26, 2017
poor william jennings bryan and henry clay..
AmyD85
+2
Level 74
Oct 16, 2017
Presidential "one-term wonders" sure helped on this one. But why, oh why couldn't I come up with Dewey?! I could see the newspaper pic of Truman, with the bold headline over his head, "________ Defeats Truman". But I couldn't fill in the blank! (And no, the pic at the top of the quiz didn't help. More's the pity.)
Conservatopia
+4
Level 31
Apr 13, 2018
Clinton, Ford, Douglas, Hughes and many more (if you pay) don't have to lose: change history and make them win here!
NEGeo
+2
Level 65
Nov 15, 2024
god i love that site
Findlay
+2
Level 81
Apr 15, 2018
Everything back to 1944, then not much - mainly just the presidents who had failed runs for office before winning or lost office.
Littlep
+2
Level 4
Apr 27, 2018
I did not do well on this quiz got the latest ones and that’s all,
kalbahamut
+3
Level 80
Oct 22, 2019
I wasn't aware that ALF ran for president in the 30s before doing his sitcom.
bestanford
+2
Level 73
Apr 13, 2020
Please accept "follette" for Bob La Follette. Thanks!
dewey1971
+2
Level 69
May 15, 2020
would love to see this quiz combined with the US Presidents and their Vice Presidents. What a grand historical quiz that would be!
NV1
+2
Level 55
Nov 26, 2020
47/58
lordisofjhoalt
+10
Level 63
Nov 27, 2020
Popcorn for anyone who came to see the inevitable cesspool of a comment section 🍿
Jacktheguy
+9
Level 93
Nov 27, 2020
Not gonna be much of a cesspool left when the comments get deleted.
Quizmaster
+12
Level ∞
Nov 29, 2020
Yep! We are going to be much stricter about this moving forward. I really do think that the partisan political discourse which infects most of the internet is making the world a worse place. I will be doing my part to help make it better.
joeythelemur
+7
Level 81
Nov 30, 2020
Thank you, thank you. I actually avoided this quiz for the last week or so because I like to read the comments, yet inevitably they descend into they typical mudslinging you see everywhere else (full disclosure: I'm guilty of throwing a few barbs of my own in the past). So I just stayed away but happy to see this moderation update.

I'm sure you've heard this a bunch of times, but Jetpunk could really use a commenting system that allows you to be notified when someone responds to one of your comments. Not the ones that require you to be on Facebook or something else, but would be nice.

Quizmaster
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Level ∞
Nov 30, 2020
You are right. It's a common suggestion, and it would be easy to implement. But we don't plan on doing so. In our opinion, back and forth conversation (usually in the form of an argument) does not contribute to a positive atmosphere. It also would make moderation more difficult, since we manually moderate everything. On Reddit, most subreddits above a certain size are toxic and enforce ideological conformity. Meanwhile, many newspaper have actually removed their comment sections. Managing comment sections is not an easy problem. Our solution works for us. We don't plan on making discussion via commenting a larger part of our site.

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lordisofjhoalt
+5
Level 63
Nov 27, 2020
You forgot Kanye!
IsleAuHaulte
+3
Level 92
Nov 27, 2020
17/58 were also president.
EvanAviator
+2
Level 61
Nov 28, 2020
the only reason "DeWitt Clinton" has so many is cause people type in Clinton
DarthKnight
+2
Level 91
May 19, 2025
thanks for explaining that for us
Devvik2
+3
Level 74
Dec 1, 2020
Anyone who watched Hamilton: Ummm Burr?
LuigiDood227
+2
Level 70
Dec 23, 2020
Burr ran as Jefferson's VP
jwils79
+6
Level 69
Dec 24, 2020
Inaccurate. Burr ran as a Democratic-Republican against fellow party member Thomas Jefferson and Federalist incumbent John Adams. Because Burr lost to Jefferson in the congressional vote, he became vice president due to the process for selecting the vice president at the time, which ruled that the second place candidate would fill the office.
nsoper
+3
Level 68
Dec 2, 2020
Could be clarified to be the "General Election" since the 2020 candidate has not yet been chosen by the electoral college
EvanAviator
+2
Level 61
Dec 11, 2020
will be on monday tho
NV1
+2
Level 55
Dec 6, 2020
54/58!
JohnnyYeet
+5
Level 63
Dec 23, 2020
Came to the comments expecting debate and anti-Trump and anti-Biden sentiment, didn't expect absolutely no debate whatsoever! If you deleted the comments of some users who are very vocal about their opinions, thank you Quizmaster!
kalbahamut
+4
Level 80
Dec 26, 2020
why would you come looking for something that you don't want to see or read? You know you can just skip to the next quiz, right? It's not obligatory to read all the comments.
ShievaAndGolly
+2
Level 59
Nov 7, 2024
That's just how people are on the internet
AlexThirkell
+4
Level 74
Dec 23, 2020
Please take a point off my score, I have no idea who or what Dewitt Clinton is or was!
PoetsCorner
+3
Level 87
Jan 27, 2021
He was probably the single most influential person in the history of New York, first as mayor and then as governor. He was the man behind the gridplan for the streets and later was the man behind the Erie Canal. A brilliant leader.
gonzit
+4
Level 72
Dec 24, 2020
Aaron Burr?
HendogJP
+1
Level 61
Mar 16, 2021
Burr ran under the Democrat-Republican party, and Thomas Jefferson was the popular candidate for the party.
ElementalPixel
+1
Level 72
Jan 15, 2022
After seeing I missed Al Gore, I will take my 1 point and walk away in shame.
Nightcap
+1
Level 83
Jul 17, 2024
Missing John Anderson third party candidate 1980
Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
Nov 7, 2024
No.
Murphster45
+10
Level 96
Nov 7, 2024
"comment about current politics"
buck1017
+10
Level 78
Nov 7, 2024
"Angry rebuttal about current politics"
TheodoreE45
+8
Level 94
Nov 7, 2024
"condescending remark about current politics"
Quizmaster
+9
Level ∞
Nov 8, 2024
"actually very nice and thoughtful comment that brings people together"

I mean, it's possible, right?

In2restingFacts
+1
Level 27
Nov 21, 2025
"nihilistic and contrarian comment that reflects a lack of faith in society's ability to engage in respectful discourse"
FrankiiLynx
+1
Level 89
Nov 7, 2024
Got them all as far back as Ford, but after that all I knew for sure were Wallace, Goldwater, and a couple of presidents. Got up to 29 in total by guessing other presidents I wasn't as sure about lol
Algernon
+2
Level 74
Nov 7, 2024
26 out of 59, happy enough with that as a Brit. I missed a few I probably should have got and recognised a few more names. Fun quiz
quizzicalguy
+2
Level 69
Nov 7, 2024
DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN!
SeahawkFan10
+1
Level 56
Nov 14, 2024
Got all of them except John Davis, with him having the most boring name and election race ever
Dax
+1
Level 65
Nov 14, 2024
Gotta love getting Winfield Hancock by accident. Happy with 29 as a non-American
Dimby
+2
Level 82
Nov 14, 2024
Gross that George Wallace got over 10% in 1968.
RobNobody
+6
Level 80
Nov 14, 2024
Wait, didn't Dewey defeat Truman? I could swear I'd read that somewhere.
tazzerman
+1
Level 46
Apr 30, 2025
That's what I'm sayin'
PatoPotato
+1
Level 55
Nov 14, 2024
I think the tactic is to guess one-term presidents and generic surnames... looking at you Davis & Smith
MalyJacus
+1
Level 60
Nov 15, 2024
Que Mala didn't work?
Fishyyy
+1
Level 61
Jan 7, 2025
How about Eugene Debs who ran for the Socialist Party against Taft, Roosevelt, and Wilson? I heard he got about 6% of the popular vote (which is in some ways enough to sway the results of an election)
In2restingFacts
+1
Level 27
Nov 21, 2025
per the description: "Got at least 10% of the popular vote"
Khalifas
+1
Level 70
Feb 5, 2025
I think if Perot and La Follette are included, Weaver should be as well. He won several states!
tazzerman
+1
Level 46
Apr 28, 2025
What do you mean Dewey lost?

Dewey defeats Truman!

dumBunny
+2
Level 59
Oct 9, 2025
I would have done better if "Three Purple Hearts Guy" had been accepted for 2004.
In2restingFacts
+1
Level 27
Nov 21, 2025
isn't yellow or purple traditionally used to represent third parties
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