Rank the top 10 "wish they were" Presidents.

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Rank the top 10 "wish they were" Presidents. (Edited 02/25/08 09:05PM by Shrugging Atlas)

Go ahead and leave a thoughtful comment about why your #1 would have made a great President too.

Included on the list are men and women from our past and present that either ran for President or seemed to be "Presidential" by the public (or by me). Oh, and I didn't include any "other" slots or anybody who ran for President in 2008 because I didn't want this to get out of hand. You are playing by my rules...

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Rank	25 Fans	Avg (1st)
1.	Benjamin Franklin	6.2 (5)
2.	Alexander Hamilton	5.8 (4)
3.	Martin Luther King Jr.	4.2 (3)
4.	John Kerry	3.4 (3)
5.	Jesse Jackson	3.1 (1)
6.	Thomas Dewey	2.4
7.	Bob Dole	2.3 (1)
8.	Eugene V. Debs	1.9 (1)
9.	Michael Dukakis	1.9 (1)
10.	Aaron Burr	1.8 (2)
Also receiving votes:	George Wallace	1.7 (1)
	David Duke	1.6 (1)
	Al Gore	1.6
	George McClellan	1.5
	Walter Mondale	1.4
	John Jay	1.3
	Strom Thurmond	1.1
	Winfield Scott	1.1 (1)
	Adlai Stevenson	1.0
	William Tecumseh Sherman	0.9
	Frederick Douglass	0.8
	H. Ross Perot	0.8
	Robert Kennedy	0.8
	Stephen Douglas	0.8
	George McGovern	0.7 (1)
	Hubert Humphrey	0.6
	Robert E. Lee	0.6
	William Jennings Bryan	0.6
	Colin Powell	0.6
	Barry Goldwater	0.6
	John C. Calhoun	0.4
	Daniel Webster	0.3
	Susan B. Anthony	0.2
	Tip O'Neil	0.2
	Patrick Buchanan	0.2
	Newt Gingrich	0.2
	Elizabeth Dole	0.1
	Jefferson Davis	0.1


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#1 \| 275 days ago Shrugging Atlas (+)	+2 I'm still debating 2-10 (on my own freaking poll), but my #1 is clear: "There is an elegant memorial in Washington to (Thomas) Jefferson, but none to (Alexander) Hamilton. However, if you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but we live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government." --George F. Will 1. Alexander Hamilton 2. Jesse Jackson 3. Michael Dukakis 4. Benjamin Franklin 5. Bob Dole 6. Robert Kennedy 7. David Duke 8. George McClellan 9. Al Gore 10. Adlai Stevenson
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#2 \| 275 days ago Ryan (+)	It got hard for me after 5. I'd say 7-10 on my list were so-so choices. 1. Jesse Jackson 2. Alexander Hamilton 3. Benjamin Franklin 4. David Duke 5. George McClellan 6. Martin Luther King Jr. 7. George Wallace 8. John Jay 9. Winfield Scott 10. Robert Kennedy
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#3 \| 275 days ago Shrugging Atlas (+)	Now that I've finished ranking...I would have to say that any #11 would have been a serious reach for me. 1. Alexander Hamilton 2. Jesse Jackson 3. Michael Dukakis 4. Benjamin Franklin 5. Bob Dole 6. Robert Kennedy 7. David Duke 8. George McClellan 9. Al Gore 10. Adlai Stevenson
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#4 \| 275 days ago woody77 (+)	Humphrey is so high because if he had won in '68 there would've been no Nixon... 1. Martin Luther King Jr. 2. Eugene V. Debs 3. Benjamin Franklin 4. Alexander Hamilton 5. John Kerry 6. David Duke 7. Jesse Jackson 8. John Jay 9. Al Gore 10. Walter Mondale
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#5 \| 275 days ago woody77 (+)	Humphrey is so high because if he had won in '68 there would've been no Nixon... 1. Martin Luther King Jr. 2. Eugene V. Debs 3. Benjamin Franklin 4. Alexander Hamilton 5. John Kerry 6. David Duke 7. Jesse Jackson 8. John Jay 9. Al Gore 10. Walter Mondale
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#6 \| 275 days ago kramer (+)	After 4 I had a hard time picking. 1. Alexander Hamilton 2. Benjamin Franklin 3. Martin Luther King Jr. 4. Jesse Jackson 5. John Kerry 6. William Tecumseh Sherman 7. Walter Mondale 8. Adlai Stevenson 9. Michael Dukakis 10. John Jay
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#7 \| 275 days ago Big_Country78 (+)	(Edited by Big_Country78) Shrugging Atlas wrote: I'm still debating 2-10 (on my own freaking poll), but my #1 is clear: "There is an elegant memorial in Washington to (Thomas) Jefferson, but none to (Alexander) Hamilton. However, if you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but we live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government." --George F. Will +1 your a federalist!?! say it aint so! nice poll BTW. where is ron paul!?! lol never figured you for a federalist though, i would have been a democratic-republican back then. 1. Michael Dukakis 2. Bob Dole 3. Aaron Burr 4. Strom Thurmond 5. John Jay 6. Benjamin Franklin 7. Stephen Douglas 8. Al Gore 9. George McClellan 10. George Wallace
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#8 \| 275 days ago Shrugging Atlas (+)	(Edited by Shrugging Atlas) Big_Country78 wrote: your a federalist!?! say it aint so! nice poll BTW. where is ron paul!?! lol never figured you for a federalist though, i would have been a democratic-republican back then. +1 Thanks! No I'm not a "federalist" in the modern sense of the term...but you have to remember, Alexander Hamilton was competing politically against Jefferson's French Revolution-style "Democracy" (i.e. mob rule). The strong central government espoused by Hamilton is a far cry from the modern (post 1930s) definition of a "strong central government." Actually, I think Hamilton had quite a bit of a libertarian streak: “The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records. They are written, as with a sun beam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.” —Alexander Hamilton 1. Alexander Hamilton 2. Jesse Jackson 3. Michael Dukakis 4. Benjamin Franklin 5. Bob Dole 6. Robert Kennedy 7. David Duke 8. George McClellan 9. Al Gore 10. Adlai Stevenson
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#9 \| 275 days ago tapout632 (+)	I hit my wall around #7. "Dewey Defeats Truman" 1. Benjamin Franklin 2. Bob Dole 3. Adlai Stevenson 4. John Jay 5. Martin Luther King Jr. 6. Alexander Hamilton 7. Robert Kennedy 8. Al Gore 9. George Wallace 10. Thomas Dewey
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#10 \| 273 days ago Shrugging Atlas (+)	After noticing how many people were having trouble getting to 10 choices, I added a number of names I should have included originally: Sherman, Calhoun, Fremont, Rice, Dole, Powell, Davis, Lee, Pelosi, O'Neil, and Gingrich. Unfortunately, I thought it would let everybody change their selections (it wouldn't let me). I guess I should make more polls so I know this stuff! I also removed Nader, who announced he is running in 2008 this morning. 1. Alexander Hamilton 2. Jesse Jackson 3. Michael Dukakis 4. Benjamin Franklin 5. Bob Dole 6. Robert Kennedy 7. David Duke 8. George McClellan 9. Al Gore 10. Adlai Stevenson
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#11 \| 273 days ago RenegadeLG (+)	(Edited by RenegadeLG) Oh. My. God. If the people that voted for David Duke knew who he was beforehand, God help you all. And the girl that voted for him as #1 is black! 1. George McGovern 2. Robert Kennedy 3. Al Gore 4. Michael Dukakis 5. Benjamin Franklin 6. H. Ross Perot 7. Martin Luther King Jr. 8. Walter Mondale 9. George Wallace 10. Bob Dole
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#12 \| 273 days ago Shrugging Atlas (+)	RenegadeLG wrote: Oh. My. God. If the people that voted for David Duke knew who he was beforehand, God help you all. And the girl that voted for him as #1 is black! +2 No...I believe that this poll got all messed up when I changed the choices. Renegade...you know me, Jesse Jackson was not my #2!!! Some of the choices look comical now: BigCountry has Michael Dukakis as his #1 and Vindog has Bob Dole as his #3...hahaha! There is a serious bug with this poll that I have reported to the site engineers. Maybe I should shut this poll down and re-open it??? 1. Alexander Hamilton 2. Jesse Jackson 3. Michael Dukakis 4. Benjamin Franklin 5. Bob Dole 6. Robert Kennedy 7. David Duke 8. George McClellan 9. Al Gore 10. Adlai Stevenson
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#13 \| 273 days ago (+)	Shrugging Atlas wrote: No...I believe that this poll got all messed up when I changed the choices. Renegade...you know me, Jesse Jackson was not my #2!!! Some of the choices look comical now: BigCountry has Michael Dukakis as his #1 and Vindog has Bob Dole as his #3...hahaha! There is a serious bug with this poll that I have reported to the site engineers. Maybe I should shut this poll down and re-open it??? LOL, I wondered what you had been drinking.
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#14 \| 273 days ago Shrugging Atlas (+)	Thanks...ummmm...Eddie Guerrero??? WTF is going on? 1. Alexander Hamilton 2. Jesse Jackson 3. Michael Dukakis 4. Benjamin Franklin 5. Bob Dole 6. Robert Kennedy 7. David Duke 8. George McClellan 9. Al Gore 10. Adlai Stevenson
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#15 \| 273 days ago JBrenn (+)	I tried to pick people who knew a little something about economics (mainly how to leave the Invisible Hand to its own devices if they were president) (hence, Debs as my no. 1), or someone who knew how to both lead and follow orders (W.T. Sherman, Powell, and R.E. Lee). 1. Eugene V. Debs 2. William Tecumseh Sherman 3. Alexander Hamilton 4. Thomas Dewey 5. Colin Powell 6. Robert E. Lee 7. Daniel Webster 8. Elizabeth Dole 9. Jefferson Davis 10. Patrick Buchanan
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#16 \| 272 days ago (+)	Shrugging Atlas