Last election between candidates who would've both been good president?

[ButterflyBlood]

For obvious reasons any election involving Nixon, Reagan or a Bush has been omitted

[theboss]

1. I went with '76 by default

Ford was hardly a radical and it's hard to imagine he would have been any more overwhelmed by the job than Carter. Ford might have gotten along better with the Dems in Congress as a matter of fact.

[JI7]

2. carter/ford and ike/stevenson

[billie_]

3. Carter/Ford n/t

[madison2000]

4. Geez, only 2 elections in my voting lifetime

and I'm getting old!

[mitchum]

5. Well, went with Carter/Ford because they were both centrists...

a good thing concerning Ford and a bad thing concerning Carter. But still not really much of a good thing.
As a left Democrat, I certainly prefer Carter the FORMER president.
Also, I will NEVER forgive Carter for bringing the "born again" nonsense into the political dialogue. Never.

[ISUGRADIA]

6. Ford - he had a great wife too. Betty was outspoken, pro-choice

talked about her kids having premarital sex, make breast cancer something to be spoken about, not hidden. Ford was a conservative but not a nut like Reagan. And if he had had similar circumstances as Carter, Dems, not Repubs, might have held the presidency 81-93.

[Zomby Woof]

7. One reminder about Ford

Donald Rumsfeld was HIS Defense Sec'y too, and Dick Cheney had a fairly big job in the admin. Ford employed, whether unwittingly or not, these neocon nutjobs while Chimpy was still snorting lines off Babs's teat.

[ISUGRADIA]

8. I had forgot that...and I just remembered Bush Sr. head of the CIA

I think, during Ford or some other role.

[UrbScotty]

9. Ike vs. Adlai

Eisenhower was the last really good Republican President. Heck, he was barely even a Republican.

Stevenson would have also been a terrific President.