Election of 1792: For whom would you have voted?

[UrbScotty]

on edit: Assume, regardless of race, gender, property ownership, or age, that you would have been allowed to vote.

[SiobhanClancy]

1. A write-in vote for...

Abigail Adams!:)

[jeter]

2. I voted for George Washington

But I was torn.

;)

[Rowdyboy]

3. Probably wouldn't have owned enough property

to be able to vote

[supernova]

4. Well, since I'm female

I wouldn't have been allowed to vote. :evilfrown:

[pmbryant]

6. Good point

Actually, could anyone except state legislators vote for President back then?


:shrug:

[MusicTVstar]

14. women could vote in new jersey...

from 1786 to 1804. i DID learn something in history today!

[pmbryant]

5. I prefer the blue George

Red George just doesn't do it for me.

:-)

--Peter

[izzie]

7. I could not vote but I would have been in a blue state for sure,

I would have had my husband vote for Washington and by the way I did have family in Mass at that time that owned a house(which still is standing) so he could have voted.

[Antilope]

8. George......

George III. :silly:

[NoPasaran]

9. I voted for George

But shouldn't John Adams be on that ballot too?

[mobuto]

10. None of the Above : Aaron Burr

He did receive one electoral vote, from South Carolina. If only 132 other electors had agreed with me, we'd have seen something really weird.

[Antilope]

11. I tried to vote for Aaron Burr also...

but I had just bit into a peanut butter sandwich and had no milk. :silly:

[UrbScotty]

15. Do you know how the Electoral College worked back then?

Every elector voted for his two favorite candidates for President.

Whomever received the most votes became President, while the second-place finisher became VP. In both 1789 and 1792, all of the electors chose Washington as one of their favorite candidates; second place was John Adams, who was VP under Washington and President from 1797-1801.

In 1800, Adams and Jefferson were tied; The House chose Jefferson as the Third President, and Aaron Burr was selected as VP.

[Snow]

12. Umm, this was after the whiskey rebellion, when GW started acting

just like George III....what was that about taxation without representation and all the rest of it?
http://earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/milestones/whiskey/

[Snow]

13. Ooops, no it wasn't - the whiskey rebellion was in 1794, sorry -

but George imposed the taxes in 1791 and it took them 3 years to find out, argue, get upset, and finally rebel. I stand by my point. By the way, my thread-killing talents seem sharp today.........

[Bucky]

16. Washington AND Adams

Back then presidential Electors voted twice w/o discriminating between which vote went for VP & which for Prexy. This assumes I'm an elector of course. Also I'd be -171 that election year, so I'd be too young to vote.