Elect the president, each election.

[La xinga]

This belongs in either F7 of General. I needed to pick one so I picked this one. If it needs to be moved a mod will move it. Hopefully.

Inspired from FCN's polls. Oh who are we kidding, this is a direct copy!

So basically, every week is another election. For example, Week 1 is the 1796 election, then Week 2 is the 1800, Week 3 is the 1804, and so on, and so on.

We're not doing 1789 and 1792 because it was just Washington.

The rules:

I can't stop you, BUT PLEASE VOTE ON ONE ACCOUNT ONLY. Voting multiple times ruins the game for everyone!

And this.

So we begin with 1796.


Current election: 1860.

The United States presidential election of 1860 set the stage for the American Civil War. The nation had been divided throughout most of the 1850s on questions of states' rights and slavery in the territories. In 1860, this issue finally came to a head, fracturing the formerly dominant Democratic Party into Southern and Northern factions and bringing Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party to power without the support of a single Southern state.

Hardly more than a month following Lincoln's victory came declarations of secession by South Carolina and other states, which were rejected as illegal by the then-current President, James Buchanan and President-elect Abraham Lincoln.

Issues of the Day: Slavery (Dred Scott decision, Secession)

And say who you voted for below!

Election of 1796: VOTE!

John Adams (Federalist) 20 Votes
Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican) 40 Votes (WINNER!)
Thomas Pinckney (Federalist) 9 Votes
Aaron Burr (Democratic-Republican) 7 Votes!
Total votes: 76

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Election of 1800: VOTE!

John Adams (Federalist) 14 Votes
Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican) 29 Votes (WINNER!)
Charles Pinckney (Federalist) 5 Votes
Aaron Burr (Democratic-Republican) 8 Votes
Total votes: 56

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Election of 1804: VOTE!

Charles C. Pinckney, Rufus King (Federalist) 15 Votes
Thomas Jefferson, George Clinton (Democratic-Republican) 32 Votes (WINNER!)
Total Votes: 47

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Election of 1808: VOTE!

Charles Pinckney, Rufus King (Federalist) 39 Votes (WINNER!)
James Madison, George Clinton (Democratic-Republican) 26 Votes
Total Votes: 65

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Election of 1812: VOTE!

DeWitt Clinton, Jared Ingersoll (Semi-Federalist) 18 Votes (WINNER!)
James Madison, Elbridge Gerry (Democratic-Republican) 13 Votes
Total Votes: 31

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Election of 1816: VOTE!

Rufus King, John Eager Howard (Federalist) 20 Votes (WINNER!)
James Monroe, Daniel D. Tompkins (Democratic-Republican) 17 Votes
Total Votes: 37

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Election of 1824: VOTE!

Andrew Jackson, John C. Calhoun (Democratic-Republican) 7 Votes
John Quincy Adams, John C. Calhoun (Democratic-Republican) 15 Votes (WINNER!)
William H. Crawford, Nathaniel Macon (Democratic-Republican) 2 Votes
Henry Clay, Nathan Sanford (Democratic-Republican) 9 Votes
Total Votes: 32

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Election of 1828: VOTE!

Andrew Jackson, John C. Calhoun (Democratic Party) 19 Votes
John Quincy Adams, Richard Rush (National Republican Party) 32 Votes (WINNER!)
Total Votes: 51

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Election of 1832: VOTE!

Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren (Democratic) 11 Votes
Henry Clay, John Sergeant (National Republican) 17 Votes (WINNER!)
John Floyd, Henry Lee (Nullifier) 5 Votes
William Wirt, Amos Ellmaker (Anti-Masonic} 3 Votes
Total Votes: 36

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Election of 1836: VOTE!

Martin Van Buren, Richard M. Johnson (Democratic Party) 10 Votes (WINNER!)
William Henry Harrison, Francis Granger (Whig Party) 5 Votes
Hugh Lawson White, John Tyler (Whig Party) 0 Votes
Daniel Webster, Francis Granger (Whig Party) 2 Votes
Willie Person Mangum, John Tyler (Whig Party) 0 Votes
Total Votes: 17

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Election of 1840: VOTE!

William Henry Harrison, John Tyler (Whig Party) 10 Votes (WINNER!)
Martin Van Buren (Democratic Party) 5 Votes
Total Votes: 15

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Election of 1844: VOTE!

Henry Clay, Theodore Frelinghuysen (Whig Party) 20 Votes (WINNER!)
James K. Polk, George M. Dallas (Democratic-Party) 12 Votes
Total Votes: 32

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Election of 1848: VOTE!

Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore (Whig Party) 12 Votes
Lewis Cass, William O. Butler (Democratic Party) 3 Votes
Martin Van Buren, Charles Francis Adams (Free Soil Party) 20 Votes (WINNER!)
Total Votes: 35

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Election of 1852: VOTE!

Franklin Pierce, William R. King (Democratic Party) 12 Votes (WINNER!)
Winfield Scott, William A. Graham (Whig Party) 10 Votes
Total Votes: 22

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Election of 1856: VOTE!

James Buchanan, John C. Breckinridge (Democratic Party) 6 Votes
John C. Frémont, William L. Dayton (Republican Party) 19 Votes (WINNER!)
Millard Fillmore, Andrew J. Donelson (American/Know Nothing/Whig) 3 Votes
Total Votes: 28

And, while an election is in place, you could debate about it.

[Baldwin Park]

Hi, cool idea. Pleased to meet you,

[La xinga]

Hi, cool idea. Pleased to meet you,

It's not my idea!

Inspired from FCN's polls. Oh who are we kidding, this is a direct copy!

[No State Here]

Adams was a terrible president

[Anatoliyanskiy]

I don't really like either, given that I don't agree with Adam's fiscal views n stuff, but I also don't like Jefferson's slavery thing. Hm. Well, I might as well flip a coin and see. Oh, and I got Adams. Well, I guess I'm reluctantly voting for him.

[La xinga]

I don't really like either, given that I don't agree with Adam's fiscal views n stuff, but I also don't like Jefferson's slavery thing. Hm. Well, I might as well flip a coin and see. Oh, and I got Adams. Well, I guess I'm reluctantly voting for him.

There's two other candidates!

[Anatoliyanskiy]

I don't really like either, given that I don't agree with Adam's fiscal views n stuff, but I also don't like Jefferson's slavery thing. Hm. Well, I might as well flip a coin and see. Oh, and I got Adams. Well, I guess I'm reluctantly voting for him.

There's two other candidates!

oh. a little too late now. I just voted. Well, maybe better luck next time.

[Demonos Ministry of Foreign Affairs]

This is a very awesome poll!

[La xinga]

Okay, who did you vote for and why?

I voted for Jeff cuz he's Jeff. And he shares more of my views, at least more than adams.

[Free Ravensburg]

Tags

[NS Random Nation]

This actually inspired me to revive this nation and my thread. Interesting.

[Kashimura]

Jefferson can help ally us with the French.

[La xinga]

Jefferson can help ally us with the French.

(Image)

Good one!

[La xinga]

Jefferson leadin'

If fact if all the other votes were added up I would have only 2 more than Jefferson.

Yeah I'm projecting this for Jefferson.

[Starrden]

I’m voting for Pinckney. Even though I know it’s useless, I don’t Adams and I don’t like Jefferson.

[La xinga]

I’m voting for Pickney. Even though I know it’s useless, I don’t Adams and I don’t like Jefferson

Do you Burr?

[Starrden]

I’m voting for Pickney. Even though I know it’s useless, I don’t Adams and I don’t like Jefferson

Do you Burr?

No I don’t.

[Tranzoria]

Jefferson, although somewhat Racist, is far better than any of the other options, Adams was not fit, Burr only focused on the North, and Pickney was never noticed.

[Coradortodos]

You know Jefferson was an amazing president! except for the fact he owned slaves of corse

[La xinga]

Do you Burr?

No I don’t.

I feel like Mr. Pickney is just the "I hate everyone else here" person to vote for.

[Badjuristan]

it has to be aaron burr, he's gotta be in tHE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENS

[La xinga]

You know Jefferson was an amazing president! except for the fact he owned slaves of corse

^
This

[Starrden]

No I don’t.

I feel like Mr. Pickney is just the "I hate everyone else here" person to vote for.

TJ owned slaves
JA was incompetent
Burr will be a murderer

[La xinga]

I feel like Mr. Pickney is just the "I hate everyone else here" person to vote for.

TJ owned slaves
JA was incompetent
Burr will be a murderer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Pinckney

Denmark Vesey conspiracy
In 1822, news was reported of a massive planned slave uprising, to be led by Denmark Vesey, a literate free man of color. Vesey and numerous other free blacks and slaves were quickly arrested in a roundup and suppression of rebellion by authorities. Slaves constituted the majority of the population in Charleston, where there was a substantial population of free people of color. Whites long feared just such an uprising. In closed court proceedings, Vesey and numerous other suspects were convicted; they were soon executed as conspirators. Arrests continued, with some suspects deported from the country.

Pinckney published a pamphlet listing factors that he thought led to the rebellion conspiracy and should be prevented in the future.

1st: The example of St. Domingo (Saint-Domingue) (Note: A violent and protracted slave uprising there gained the independence of Haiti in 1804), and the encouragement received therefrom.
2nd: The indiscreet zeal in favor of universal liberty, expressed by many of our fellow citizens in the States north and east of Maryland; aided by the black population of those states.
3rd: The idleness, dissipation, and improper indulgences permitted among all classes of negroes in Charleston, and particularly among the domestic being taught to read and write. Being taught to read and write is the most dangerous.
4th: The facility of obtaining money afforded by the nature of their occupations to those employed as mechanics, draymen, fisherman, butchers, porters and hucksters.
5th: The disparity of numbers between the white and black inhabitants of the city.[10]

[United Hemand Insia]

Adams was a terrible president

Oh shut up. He was great at what he did. He was very fair.