Today we announce the matchups for the first round of the brand-spanking new President Super Tournament. The Chief Executives match up mano a mano to see who would be more likely to win an election, solely based on their ideology and track record.
The matchups for the first round are as follows:
1 George Washington 3 Thomas Jefferson
21 Chester Arthur 9 William Harrison
42 Bill Clinton 23 Benjamin Harrison
16 Abraham Lincoln 26 Theodore Roosevelt
20 James Garfield 8 Martin Van Buren
32 Franklin Roosevelt 18 Ulysses Grant
40 Ronald Reagan 28 Woodrow Wilson
30 Calvin Coolidge 41 George H. W. Bush
22 Grover Cleveland 37 Richard Nixon
31 Herbert Hoover 44 Barack Obama
15 James Buchanan 27 William Taft
34 Dwight Eisenhower 13 Millard Fillmore
19 Rutherford Hayes 25 William McKinley
38 Gerald Ford 7 Andrew Jackson
29 Warren Harding 14 Franklin Pierce
17 Andrew Johnson 12 Zachary Taylor
35 John Kennedy 2 John Adams
36 Lyndon Johnson 43 George W. Bush
10 John Tyler 33 Harry Truman
5 James Monroe 11 James Polk
4 James Madison 6 John Quincy Adams
24 BYE 39 Jimmy Carter
I used a "random sequence generator" to create these matchups. The first 8 matchups will be explored in tomorrow's post. The blog will be dedicated to this tournament until a victor is found.
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So, I like Grant's chances against FDR. He will still lose, but he deserves credit for the Civil War. Does that count as his "track record"?
ReplyDeleteWell basically, anything that happened before their presidency becomes valid in the theoretical campaign.
ReplyDeleteAnything I learned from their presidencies about their character and ideology may factor in, though never directly like Harding and the Teapot Dome Scandal preventing him from getting votes.