Worst Election Ever

[BurtWorm]

Or in the US in recent memory

[YOY]

1. Pretty much one of the two with votes above.

n.t.

[crossroads]

2. 2000 - the year GOP got control and screwed the country for 8 years!

[FVZA_Colonel]

3. 1876 and 2000.

Both years in which a Democrat won but it was stolen and given to a Republican.

[BurtWorm]

4. I voted for 2000, but I almost voted for 2002.

In 2000, the curtain got raised on what a mess the electoral system was. In 2002, the curtain got raised on what a mess the Democratic Party was.

[boobooday]

5. 1972 was bad

but at least more than 9 people got their votes counted.

[davidwparker]

well said. n/t

[Lucky 13]

6. It was between 2000 and 2004, but ultimately I think '04 was much worse.

In 2000, I'm not sure we had anyway of knowing JUST HOW BAD Bush could be. I mean some of us knew, but I can maybe see how the rest of idiot America didn't.

2004 was AWFUL and HEARTBREAKING. We knew what he was doing. We knew he lied about the war. We knew the country was going down the toilet. And we elected the son-of-a-bitch anyway! I think '04 was also particularly hard for me because it was the first election I got serious about volunteering in. I worked hard. I phonebanked. I wrote letters. I drove all the way to Ohio. And I was SURE we were going to win. When we didn't, I was stunned... and incredibly disillusioned.

[BurtWorm]

13. Do you remember how heartbreaking 2002 was?

That election almost killed me. That was right after the IWR vote, when all those dumb Dems in the Senate got tricked into voting for the war. And they lost control of the Senate. And they lost seats in Congress--an unprecedentedly big loss for an opposition party in midterm elections.

[Lucky 13]

14. Yeah, that was bad, but I think the Presidential elections were much more devastating...

... at least psychologically for me anyway.

[BurtWorm]

18. True. I remember being enraged after 2000, utterly depressed after 2004.

I was enraged after 2002, though. But my anger was directed at Terry McAuliffe and the DNC. What a difference between then and now.

[Ozma]

23. Same here! You got THAT right!

Enraged that so many thousand Jewish votes in FL went mistakenly to Pat Buchanan, and totally depressed at the disenfranchisement in OH in 2004 with people waiting for hours in line in the rain in minority districts.

[MadinMo]

28. Exactly.

We didn't really know for sure how BAD Bush was going to be in 2000. Then in 2004 it seemed like it should have been so obvious to EVERYONE what a turd Bush really was. And when he "won" it was devastating. I was so angry. I wanted to move anywhere but where I lived. I couldn't believe the people I worked with and lived near could be so incredibly stupid. Yep for me, 2004 was the worst.

[Left Is Write]

30. You have a good point.

In 2004, we knew just how dangerous Bush as president was. We had real hope that Kerry would win, would take our country back where it belonged.

The loss was stunning, and it was a real turning point for many people.

[Lerkfish]

7. 2000 was the most outrageous misuse of power by the SCOTUS ever seen up till that time

their stopping the recount was inherently unconsitutional.

[Jennicut]

8. 2000 was a total bummer and Al's presidency was stolen from him.

[AndyTiedye]

9. They Stole More Votes in 2004

[azmouse]

10. I said 1980 because that was the election that started the horror show

and made the Boosh presidency possible.

[Ozma]

24. I remember how depressed I was when Reagan won.

[carnie_sf]

25. I'm with you

1980 was the start of this miserable cycle of american politics

[AlCzervik]

11. 2000 was right up there next to the 1986 world series.

worst ever.

[BurtWorm]

15. I never knew you were a Red Sox fan!

:toast:

[AlCzervik]

16. born and raised in Massachusetts and lived there until i was 30.

i don't follow baseball anymore, 1986 ruined it for me.

[BurtWorm]

21. I totally sympathize!

Thank you very much, Bill Buckner!

[hogwyld]

12. 1980

We could have nipped the whole conservative, Reagan revolution crap in the bud, and put a halt the miserable ideology.

[madeline_con]

17. 2204. We knew better than to let them steal another one! n/t

[yardwork]

19. I gotta go with 2004 - that was even worse than 2000 imo.

[Sebastian Doyle]

20. 1952

If the Bush Crime Family had lost that one, there never would have been a Nixon, Reagan, Poppy, or Chimpy.

[S_E_Fudd]

22. 1968 - Could have avoided Richard Nixon...

As Barry Goldwater said(paraphrasing), Hubert Humphrey was probably the greatest man not to get elected...

[tledford]

26. 2000 was really bad, but I've got to go with 1876.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1876

Hayes (Republican) lost the popular vote to Tilden (Democrat) but won the electoral vote. Unlike 2000, however, when the Supreme Court threw the election to the Republicans, in 1876 it was the outright bribery of those who counted the electoral votes. And they didn't really even try to keep it secret.

[Anna Lee]

27. On November 7, 2000 I did not vote.

As I went to work that day down the local highway, a driver crossed the center line and hit my car head-on. I was crippled for life. I tell people that that wreck was the 2nd worse thing that happened in my live on election day 2000. The worse thing was Bush.

[GreenEyedLefty]

29. 2004

It highlighted, underlined and italicized the utter stupidity of the American right, and it lit a fire under the asses of the left.