Can you name the losing presidential tickets since 1900?

Year	Presidential Candidate	VP Candidate
1900		Adlai E. Stevenson I
1904		Henry Davis
1908		John W. Kern
1912		Hiram Johnson
1916		Charles W. Fairbanks
1920		Franklin D. Roosevelt
1924		Charles W. Bryan
1928		Joseph T. Robinson
1932		Charles Curtis
1936		Frank Knox
1940		Charles McNary
1944		John Bricker
1948		Earl Warren
1952		John Sparkman
1956		Estes Kefauver

Year	Presidential Candidate	VP Candidate
1960		Henry Cabot Lodge
1964		William E. Miller
1968		Edmund Muskie
1972		Thomas Eagleton/Sargent Shriver
1976		Robert Dole
1980		Walter Mondale
1984		Geraldine Ferraro
1988		Lloyd Bentsen
1992		Dan Quayle
1996		Jack Kemp
2000		Joseph Lieberman
2004		John Edwards
2008		Sarah Palin
2012		Paul Ryan

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Losing U.S. Presidents Quiz

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	EasilyConfused:	Sep 5th, 2008 at 16:36 GMT		31 points
	Re: "Booger" If you read the description, it defines the "loser" as the second place finisher. Taft could have been included, but then why not Perot, Henry Wallace, George Wallace, etc.?

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	brianc:	Oct 7th, 2008 at 18:33 GMT		14 points
	taft lost the race, but perot "lost" in 92, wallace "lost", et cetera. the quiz is defined as the lits of second place finishers, which is by electoral votes

	ElDavo:	Oct 15th, 2008 at 01:26 GMT		23 points
	I have to wonder why Dewey isn't most guessed, though. Maybe behind Bush, Dole, Gore, and Kerry because everyone still remembers them, but when I hear losing president I think of the Dewey defeats Truman newspaper headline.

	masterdebater:	Nov 15th, 2008 at 22:22 GMT		0 points
	1. Why do so many people miss McCain? 2. If LOSER is defined by "second place finisher" or who got the second most amount of votes, then shouldn't George W Bush be on there for 2000? yeah?? nice

	Lindsay:	Nov 17th, 2008 at 18:08 GMT		17 points
	Can we get the pre-1900 version of this quiz soon?

	donruss:	Nov 19th, 2008 at 03:26 GMT		-1 points
	Bush did NOT lose in 2000. Yeah, I know he lost the Popular vote but he won the Electoral vote which is how we do things, so he is not defined as a loser in this particular case.

	raggedyanne:	Dec 11th, 2008 at 04:51 GMT		3 points
	Very good quiz. I knew going into it I could get all the ones from 1952 on, and had a few brain drizzles to get others too. Ashamed to miss 2 quite prominent ones though (1936 and 1940).

	Bretzky:	Dec 13th, 2008 at 00:40 GMT		-4 points
	donruss: I believe ElDavo was referring to George H. W. Bush who lost in '92 to Bill Clinton, not George W. Bush.

	Bretzky:	Dec 13th, 2008 at 00:43 GMT		9 points
	masterdebater: I don't think this quiz's stats are accurate regarding McCain. If you look at the dates of some of the comments, they come from before the election. I think Sporcle added McCain after the election and that is distorting the totals because, before the election, it's effectively as if all the people who did the quiz got McCain as a wrong answer.

	Bretzky:	Dec 13th, 2008 at 00:47 GMT		8 points
	It's a shame that only 12% got Willkie. Many historians regard him as the losing candidate most likely to have been a great president if he had been elected. 1940 was one of those rare years when both parties put up a worthy candidate.

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	Statto2:	Feb 5th, 2009 at 18:41 GMT		8 points
	I only got Dewey because of the infamous wrong newspaper headline that called him as the winner (in '48 I think).

	swellwrench:	Feb 7th, 2009 at 04:02 GMT		0 points
	"Paul," more like Tyler Durden. Rock on brah.

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	mark_oh:	Apr 17th, 2009 at 03:15 GMT		2 points
	Thank you AP U.S History for helping me remember these!

	tophats:	May 1st, 2009 at 16:48 GMT		5 points
	William Jennings Bryan is immortal, I swear.

	Jatzel:	May 16th, 2009 at 08:36 GMT		8 points
	Hughes is very well known in my country (Dominican Republic) for being the force behind the end of United States occupation in 1924 when he was secretary of state. We even have streets named after him.

	JohnJF:	Jul 3rd, 2009 at 20:07 GMT		0 points
	@Paul: Isn't it possible that we Americans are just stupid and terrible at voting?

	newenglander:	Aug 12th, 2009 at 13:46 GMT		2 points
	this quiz was made before the 2008 elections, thats why mccain has a lower percentage than you might think. everyone knows he lost, just that his answer wasnt acceptable until november of 08.

	jessbowen:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 16:41 GMT		8 points
	As a history teacher, I'm glad Cox didn't win. I can only imagine all the terrible jokes I'd have to put up with regarding that presidency.

	transitfan:	Jan 19th, 2010 at 00:37 GMT		-1 points
	Bush should be there instead of Gore. Gore can be a bonus answer.

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	thebishop:	Feb 24th, 2010 at 08:20 GMT		1 point
	Terry, George W Bush (the most recent president of the family,) never lost an election, however controversial it may be.

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	Albinowolf:	Jun 6th, 2010 at 13:57 GMT		1 point
	Terry - Bush Sr only had one term in office losing to Clinton in his bid for his second term in 92. Great Sporcle.

	djangosmalls:	Jul 8th, 2010 at 03:21 GMT		0 points
	@GOPconspiracytheorists: Why let the facts get in the way of a good story, am I right?

	MaximusXXX:	Sep 11th, 2010 at 23:23 GMT		1 point
	I was writing Hoover as time ran out and misspelled Cox several times. Ugh, bring on Canadian PMs!!!

	yellowdart5:	Nov 3rd, 2010 at 00:19 GMT		3 points
	Dewey Defeats Truman!

	Illinidude18:	Feb 26th, 2011 at 15:48 GMT		3 points
	Got em all, though it was a little by luck. I randomly typed in Davis and it took it.

	lrsnb12:	Jun 13th, 2011 at 20:15 GMT		2 points
	Where's George W? Oh, yeah...5-4, right?

	lrsnb12:	Jun 13th, 2011 at 20:17 GMT		2 points
	@Lindsay- pre-1900 would be really diffcult

	ikaros:	Aug 15th, 2011 at 09:33 GMT		1 point
	somehow I got cox but not roosevelt.. I could've sworn that I tried him though.

	thewildboo:	Jul 2nd, 2012 at 13:38 GMT		2 points
	I thought it was "Bryant" and I must have typed too quickly for it to register Bryan. Dangnabbit.