Round 4

6 Harry Truman 1 John Kennedy (Victor will be assigned number 1)

John Kennedy by the Catholic and youth votes. The two are evenly matched aside from that.


8 Theodore Roosevelt 7 Lyndon Johnson (Victor will be assigned number 2)

TR has the same things I've mentioned every other time. San Juan Hill, Secretary of the Navy, orator abilities. LBJ has a wider array of elected experience.

It's really a very tough decision to decide between these two. When I think of their main ideological goals, TR was for expansionism and LBJ was for civil rights. Expansionism no longer has a place in our world. Civil rights isn't as prevalent anymore, but it is still needed.

Landslide Lyndon wins by less than 100,000 votes.


4 James Garfield 5 George H.W. Bush (Victor will be assigned number 3)

Republican vs. Republican. Neither has a record that would put them over the other. Garfield has the reform of the spoils system on his side. Bush has modern politicial knowlegdge on his side.

As much as I love Garfield and his beard, Elder Bush wins by a mudslinger.


2 Warren Harding 3 Barack Obama (Victor will be assigned number 4)

Up to this point, Warren Harding's main asset was his good looks. But Barack Obama, too is an attractive man. So the ideology of the candidates would decide the election, and laissez faire leads to a laissez fair loss in the election. Obama wins.



Round 5 will be announced tomorrow. In the meantime, there has been a poll added in that right column at the top. Vote for who you think will end up winning the Presidential Super Tournament. Underneath that, congrats to TR/McCain for winning the mock extremely small sample set election, with FDR/LBJ and Garfield/Arthur as the runners up, and Buchanan/A. Johnson coming in last, failing to be redeemed.