All-time presidential election here

By Joe McAdory

Published: September 24, 2008

For the next few weeks, oanow.com is having an all-time presidential election. Through a number of primaries, then final general election, readers will have the opportunity to vote who they feel is the greatest president ever. The presidents were split into three divisions: nostalgic, Republican and Democratic. There were so many different parties in the early days, we decided to pool these presidents all into the nostalgic group rather than try to determine whether they best fit the Republican or Democratic mold.

The poll will be updated each week and can be found at http://www.oanow.com

Winners from each division will meet in a grand showdown. George Washington was the winner last week in Nostalgic Pool A.

Here is the complete list of candidates:

Nostalgic Pool A 1789-1825
George Washington
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe

Nostalgic Pool B 1825-1853
John Quincy Adams
William Henry Harrison
John Tyler
Zachary Taylor
Millard Fillmore

Republican Pool A 1861-1885
Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses S. Grant
Rutherford B. Hayes
James Garfield
Chester A. Arthur

Republican Pool B 1889-1913
Benjamin Harrison
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft

Republican Pool C 1921-1961
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Dwight Eisenhower

Republican Pool D 1969-present
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Ronald Reagan
George H. Bush
George W. Bush

Democratic Pool A 1853-1889
Franklin Pierce
James Buchanan
Andrew Johnson
Grover Cleveland

Democratic Pool B 1913-1963
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry Truman
John F. Kennedy

Democratic Pool C 1963-2001
Lyndon B. Johnson
Jimmy Carter
Bill Clinton

Preliminary prediction? Got a hunch the general election will be between George Washington, FDR and Ronald Reagan, but of course, that’s up to the voters.