{"id":331,"date":"2008-08-05T00:37:27","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T08:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=331"},"modified":"2009-09-25T20:48:24","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T04:48:24","slug":"post-war-presidential-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"Post-War Presidential Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/colgroup>
Year<\/th>Winner<\/th>Runner-Up<\/th><\/tr>
Name<\/th>Affiliation<\/th>Name<\/th>Affiliation<\/th><\/tr><\/tbody>
1948<\/td>Truman<\/td>Yeehaw-Midwesterner<\/td>Dewey<\/td>Yankee<\/td><\/tr>
1952<\/td>Eisenhower<\/td>Midwesterner<\/td>Stevenson<\/td>Yankee-Midwesterner<\/td><\/tr>
1956<\/td>Eisenhower<\/td>Midwesterner<\/td>Stevenson<\/td>Yankee-Midwesterner<\/td><\/tr>
1960<\/td>Kennedy<\/td>Yankee<\/td>Nixon<\/td>Californian<\/td><\/tr>
1964<\/td>Johnson<\/td>Cowboy-Yeehaw<\/td>Goldwater<\/td>Cowboy<\/td><\/tr>
1968<\/td>Nixon<\/td>Californian<\/td>Humphrey<\/td>Yankee-Midwesterner<\/td><\/tr>
1972<\/td>Nixon<\/td>Californian<\/td>McGovern<\/td>Yankee-Midwesterner<\/td><\/tr>
1976<\/td>Carter<\/td>Yeehaw<\/td>Ford<\/td>Midwesterner<\/td><\/tr>
1980<\/td>Reagan<\/td>Faux-Cowboy Midwesterner-Californian<\/td>Carter<\/td>Yeehaw<\/td><\/tr>
1984<\/td>Reagan<\/td>Faux-Cowboy Midwesterner-Californian<\/td>Mondale<\/td>Yankee-Midwesterner<\/td><\/tr>
1988<\/td>Bush, GHW<\/td>Wannabe-Cowboy-Yeehaw Yankee<\/td>Dukakis<\/td>Yankee<\/td><\/tr>
1992<\/td>Clinton<\/td>Yeehaw<\/td>Bush, GHW<\/td>Wannabe-Cowboy-Yeehaw Yankee<\/td><\/tr>
1996<\/td>Clinton<\/td>Yeehaw<\/td>Dole<\/td>Midwesterner<\/td><\/tr>
2000<\/td>Bush, GW<\/td>Cowboy-Yeehaw<\/td>Gore<\/td>Faux-Yankee Yeehaw<\/td><\/tr>
2004<\/td>Bush, GW<\/td>Cowboy-Yeehaw<\/td>Kerry<\/td>Yankee<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>

McCain has chosen to be a Cowboy, and Obama a Yankee-Midwesterner, though neither of them seems to have been raised thus. Nancy Pelosi is pressing Obama to accept a Cowboy-Yeehaw as running-mate.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"YearWinnerRunner-UpNameAffiliationNameAffiliation1948TrumanYeehaw-MidwesternerDeweyYankee1952EisenhowerMidwesternerStevensonYankee-Midwesterner1956EisenhowerMidwesternerStevensonYankee-Midwesterner1960KennedyYankeeNixonCalifornian1964JohnsonCowboy-YeehawGoldwaterCowboy1968NixonCalifornianHumphreyYankee-Midwesterner1972NixonCalifornianMcGovernYankee-Midwesterner1976CarterYeehawFordMidwesterner1980ReaganFaux-Cowboy Midwesterner-CalifornianCarterYeehaw1984ReaganFaux-Cowboy Midwesterner-CalifornianMondaleYankee-Midwesterner1988Bush, GHWWannabe-Cowboy-Yeehaw YankeeDukakisYankee1992ClintonYeehawBush, GHWWannabe-Cowboy-Yeehaw Yankee1996ClintonYeehawDoleMidwesterner2000Bush, GWCowboy-YeehawGoreFaux-Yankee Yeehaw2004Bush, GWCowboy-YeehawKerryYankee McCain has chosen to be a Cowboy, and Obama a Yankee-Midwesterner, though neither of them seems to have been raised thus. Nancy Pelosi is pressing Obama to accept a Cowboy-Yeehaw as running-mate.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[135,349,347,354,43,337,351,350,338,47,346,342,352,344,132,343,340,353,44,345,341,45,335,348,339,336],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-public","tag-barack-obama","tag-bush","tag-carter","tag-chet-edwards","tag-clinton","tag-dewey","tag-dole","tag-dukakis","tag-eisenhower","tag-election","tag-ford","tag-goldwater","tag-gore","tag-humphrey","tag-john-mccain","tag-johnson","tag-kennedy","tag-kerry","tag-mccain","tag-mcgovern","tag-nixon","tag-obama","tag-pelosi","tag-reagan","tag-stevenson","tag-truman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}