If I Could Change the Past Poll
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1. If you could go back in time to change the outcome of an election for the betterment of the US today, which elections would you alter? Assume you'll still be born even with the changes.
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I wouldn't alter an of the below elections for fear that the result would be much worse by 2023
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1800: I'll have John Adams win reelection against Thomas Jefferson to prevent Jeffersoniansim
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1828: I'll have John Quincy Adams win reelection against Andrew Jackson to prevent the Indian Removal
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1832: I'll have Henry Clay defeat Andrew Jackson to save the Bank of the US.
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1844: I'll have Henry Clay defeat James K Polk to prevent war with Mexico
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1852: I'll have Winfield Scott defeat Franklin Pierce to avoid the Kansas-Nebraska Act
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1856: I'll have John C Fremont defeat James Buchanan, although it will usher in an early Civil War
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1860: I'll have John C Breckinridge defeat Abraham Lincoln, likely delaying civil war but also strengthening the slave powers0
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1864: I'll have George B McClellan defeat Abraham Lincoln and end the civil war dipomatically, leaving two nations in place, one free and one slave.0
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1872: I'll have Horace Greeley defeat Ulysses S Grant to usher in civil service reform, although this will cost blacks their political power in the South0
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1896: I'll have William Jennings Bryan defeat William McKinley, converting the nation from a pro-gold, pro-imperialist conservative political establishment to one of pro-silver, anti-imperialist, progressive populism
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1912: I'll have Theodore Roosevelt defeat Woodrow Wilson (and Taft), ushering in Roosevelt's updated Nationalistic Progressivism and likely early entry into WWI.
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1932: I'll have Herbert Hoover miraculously win reelection against FDR to prevent the New Deal from happening
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1952: I'll have Adali Stevenson II defeat Eisenhower to continue the New Deal era of FDR-Truman well into the 1950s.
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1960: I'll have Nixon defeat JFK as a younger Nixon is less paranoid, more conservative and more likely to avoid Watergate.
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1964: I'll have Barry Goldwater defeat LBJ to prevent LBJ's Great Society, Civil Rights Act, War on Poverty, etc, even if it means Goldwater is more aggressive in Vietnam.
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1972: I'll have George McGovern defeat Nixon because McGovern would likely be the most liberal and reformist president in US history with a Democratic Senate and House in control.
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1980: I'll have Jimmy Carter defeat Ronald Reagan, preventing Reaganomics ("Trickle Down")
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1992: I'll have GHW Bush win reelection against Bill Clinton, primarily to see what Bush could do with another term but also to extend the Reagan Era.
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2000: I'll have Al Gore defeat GW Bush in hopes that Gore can avoid the mistakes of the Bush II presidency in foreign policy, environmentally, and economically.
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2008: I'll have John McCain defeat Obama to prevent Obamacare and other liberal policies of the Obama years, even if it means McCain is militarily aggressive overseas.
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2016: I'll have Hillary Clinton defeat Donald Trump, either because I want to see a woman president or to prevent MAGA from infecting the White House.
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2020: I'll have Donald Trump win reelection to prevent Joe Biden from becoming president, even if it means it sustains some of Trump's worst rhetoric and behavior.
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