Favorte US President Poll #2 1845-1881

[UrbScotty]

Poll question: Favorte US President Poll #2 1845-1881

The top two from each poll go to the final round, sometime early in the week, UNLESS someone gets 50%, in which case they go to the finmal round all by themselves.

All terms started and ended in March (that's when inauguration day was back then), unless otherwise noted.

(D)=Democratic
(W)=Whig
(R)=Repubnlican

[JHBowden]

1. Lincoln won the war of Southern Treason.

That's all I need to know.

[azmesa207]

2. Lincoln won the southern war of treason

I {never} vote Republican

[No2W2004]

3. Abe doesn't have a cool TMBG song

In 1844, the Democrats were split
The three nominees for the presidential candidate
Were Martin Van Buren, a former president and an abolitionist
James Buchanan, a moderate
Louis Cass, a general and expansionist
From Nashville came a dark horse riding up
He was James K. Polk, Napoleon of the Stump

Austere, severe, he held few people dear
His oratory filled his foes with fear
The factions soon agreed
He's just the man we need
To bring about victory
Fulfill our manifest destiny
And annex the land the Mexicans command
And when the votes were cast the winner was
Mister James K. Polk, Napoleon of the Stump

In four short years he met his every goal
He seized the whole southwest from Mexico
Made sure the tarriffs fell
And made the English sell the Oregon territory
He built an independent treasury
Having done all this he sought no second term
But precious few have mourned the passing of
Mister James K. Polk, our eleventh president
Young Hickory, Napoleon of the Stump

-They Might Be Giants

[mot78]

4. Lincoln

no contest. The Civil War was the only time you could call Democrats unpatriotic with their shilling for Jefferson Davis.

[UrbScotty]

5. Where are the votes for Pierce and Buchanan?!

</sarcasm>

[RoyGBiv]

6. Here's my argument in support of Buchanan

James Buchanan was better than George "Dubya" Bush.

Other than that ... well, I'm a failed fiction writer. :-)

[MsMagnificent]

7. *chuckle*

You did the best you could with the material provided :D

[Yupster]

8. Polk pretty clearly the choice of this pretty weak field

I've gone over my complaints with Lincoln enough times. Anyway, I don't place him near the top of a list of US presidents.

[Sandpiper]

9. The greatest land grabber in US history?

Was there ever a President with a greater thirst for other nations' land than James K. Polk?

[Yupster]

10. I like him because

he said if he was elected president he'd do two things, settle the Oregon border dispute, and annex Texas. He got elected. He did those two things, and then he didn't run for reelection.

[UrbScotty]

11. Kick

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