Can you name the losing candidates from US Presidential elections?

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Presidential Losers Quiz

by Hejman

Created Apr 21, 2012 in History
Featured Nov 3, 2012
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	Hejman:	Nov 3rd, 2012 at 15:05 GMT		22 points
	This isn't EVERY loser from a Presidential election, but rather only those who finished second without previously or subsequently holding the office. (With a couple of major 3rd partiers thrown in to round out the grid of images.) The fact that they are in chronological order gives an oddly satisfying sense of color balance between paintings and the advent of color film. We could be adding an image on Tuesday or not. And since I live in Ohio, I get to see 9,748 more television commercials in the next three days trying to convince me which way to vote!

	citkeane:	Nov 3rd, 2012 at 15:19 GMT		4 points
	As a non-American I'm not being too harsh on myself for only getting 6. But is it wrong that I only know Dukakis from watching 'Donnie Darko'?

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	AtomicIce:	Nov 3rd, 2012 at 15:30 GMT		14 points
	Damn if Davis doesn't look a LOT like Wilson, good thing he wasn't running about a decade earlier. Mondale looks awful in that pic. I've seen it before, but he looks like a member of the Politburo.

	Statto2:	Nov 3rd, 2012 at 15:37 GMT		2 points
	Am I the only to think Wendell Wilkie looks like Burt Lancaster?

	DandyDan17:	Nov 3rd, 2012 at 16:06 GMT		4 points
	Dewey really does look like the little man on the wedding cake.

	DandyDan17:	Nov 3rd, 2012 at 16:07 GMT		3 points
	And I wonder if Bryan, who lost the race three times, was seen as a dinosaur because he was the last one to be wearing 19th century neckwear.

	demonopie:	Nov 3rd, 2012 at 16:15 GMT		16 points
	Should accept AuH2O for Goldwater

	Teary_Ennui:	Nov 3rd, 2012 at 16:23 GMT		3 points
	@DandyDan17: Bryan wouldn't like to be compared to a dinosaur given his refusal to believe in evolution; he was the prosecutor in the Scopes trial!

	Hejman:	Nov 3rd, 2012 at 16:23 GMT		16 points
	@demonopie- Just for you, I've added 'AuH2O' as an alternate answer.

	cirquedeepicness:	Nov 3rd, 2012 at 16:48 GMT		-3 points
	Just curious: did breckinridge found the ski resort?

	soberden:	Nov 3rd, 2012 at 17:02 GMT		0 points
	I keep forgetting that Willkie has 2 l's in his name. Other than that I drew a blank on 3 of the early ones, at least one of whom I should have remembered. Great quiz.

	singin185:	Nov 3rd, 2012 at 17:08 GMT		0 points
	I only knew the ones from my lifetime, Dewey because of the "Dewey defeats Truman" picture, and Mondale because my dad told me about a campaign button that said "Vote for Wallie and the Beav"

	Hejman:	Nov 3rd, 2012 at 17:33 GMT		3 points
	@cirquedeepicness- John C. BreckInridge died in 1875. The BreckEnridge ski resort opened in 1961. So I'm going to go with no on that one.

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	RonB:	Nov 3rd, 2012 at 19:39 GMT		1 point
	I knew Willkie from the classic Gremlin cartoon.

	Scout_Number_4:	Nov 3rd, 2012 at 20:31 GMT		3 points
	William Jennings Bryan--the Buffalo Bills of presidential candidates. No, doesn't really work.

	dalejr88a:	Nov 3rd, 2012 at 21:17 GMT		1 point
	senator dole why should people vote for you instead of president clinton. it dosent matter either way you vote your planet is doomed dooooooomed.

	TheFlyingBarney:	Nov 3rd, 2012 at 21:41 GMT		0 points
	As an 18-year old Brit who's only been following US politics for a few years, I'm not too disappointed with my tally of three...

	kromclovinfasho:	Nov 3rd, 2012 at 21:57 GMT		6 points
	Fact that I got less than half of these proves that history truly is written by the victors.

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	plus_seven7:	Nov 4th, 2012 at 00:31 GMT		2 points
	still sad that Gore is on here