Posted on 05/10/2020 5:07:47 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
I’ve heard of that book. Would you recommend it?
US Grant was a great man who is wrongly maligned by historians for his performance as President (something about him on the History channel tonight I think, they are taking a break from Ancient Aliens BS).
We should have nominated him for a non-consecutive third term in 1880 rather than Garfield (a brilliant man but dirty civil service reform advocate).
Greeley of course, friggin died, and therefore would not have been President, that would have been a mess. I guess B. Gratz Brown would have been President.
Losers who would have been good or at least much much better Presidents, Dole, Goldwater, Nixon 1960, Dewey either time, Hughes, Fremont.
I wish Al Smith had beaten Hoover also no matter what kind of President he would have been.
Henry Clay (1832).
California would have been enough for Hughes to win and some say he did actually win that state, I think they found a ballot box with extra Wilson votes. RINO CA Governor also didn’t back Hughes.
He did very bad in the rural west, yes. Progressism appealed there, LaFollete did well in some of those states in 1924. A lot of the TR 1912 vote out west went to Wilson I guess.
And Hughes did badly in Ohio also, never before or since was Ohio ever so much more rat than the nation at large.
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