Top 10 Presidential Candidates in American History
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Mr. Beat counts down his top ten favorite American presidential candidates who never became President.
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In this video, we’re gonna focus on those losers. Er, uh...those losing candidates. While there have been 45 different individuals who have served as President in American history, there have been tens of thousands of people who have run for President, and yes most of them stood little chance of winning. Approximately 55 of them were actual contenders, meaning it appeared they had at least a solid chance of winning going into the final weeks of their campaigns.
My criteria for qualified candidates is simple:
They had to be a major contender
They had to run before the year 2000
They couldn’t later win the Presidency.
Now, how I picked these top 10 is also simple. I looked at:
Character
Leadership experience
Platform
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#10 John P. Hale
Learn more about him:
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#9 Samuel J. Tilden
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Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876
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#8 Daniel Webster
Learn more about him:
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#7 William Wirt
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#6 Wendell Willkie
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www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/bo...
#5 Ross Perot
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www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/us...
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#4 William Jennings Bryan
Learn more about him:
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#3 James B. Weaver
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#2 Robert La Follette
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#1 John B. Anderson
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Who should have been on this list but wasn't?
Hubert Humphrey and Thomas Dewey
Eugene Debs
Mondale
Mr. Beat do you want Justin Amash to run in 2024? Also do you like Rand Paul?
Bob Dole, Michael Dukakis, Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale, George McGovern, Barry Goldwater, Thomas Dewey, Adlai Stevenson II, James Cox
fun fact: george mcclellen didnt lose he merely failed to win
Dude. Cool.
OverSimplified
Undersimplified
......no
@@davidtownsend6092 yes
Eugene Debs running from prison and even using his prison number is still one of the coolest things a candidate has ever done
@@night6724 aren't you the guy who got decapitated during the French revolution?
@@night6724 Your're named after him so STFU!
@@night6724 in that case, I think you're the one that commissioned one the first operas.
@@jmsgridiron5628
no, that was another Louis
Louis XIV: Chad King that strengthened France; was a strong willed absolute monarch.
Louis XVI: virgin "king" that helped kickstart the French Revolution by being a weak, easily swayed "ruler".
Henry Clay was truly one of the most underrated political figures in U.S history
Watching the start of the video, I reckon Henry Clay is gonna be a BIG character in this video
@@bpouelas I thought so too I can't believe he didn't even make the list, and he even got mentioned so Mr. Beat didn't just forget he exists
Love me some internal improvements.
“The Great Compromiser”
I sometimes see Canadians brag that our election campaigns are "so short" compared to American ones, but it's hard to do a one-to-one comparison. Americans generally count the primary campaign as being "part" of the general election, even though technically, under US law, the general election only begins after the two parties both officially nominate their candidates in the summer. That makes a formal US presidential race take place from August-to-October which isn't THAT long.
A Canadian election would also last a year or more if we count it as starting from the moment people start running to be heads of the different parties, and thus candidates for prime minister. So you could say the current election for prime minister has been ongoing since January of 2020, since that's when the Conservative Party leadership election began.
@@iammrbeat Andrew yang joined a year later
@@donkey7921 Nominations by popular vote for political parties is one of the worst ideas the US has ever had. We would have much more moderate candidates from both parties if party insiders were the only ones who could vote on nominations. We should only be able to vote in general elections and we should not allow government to subsidize private organizations like political parties in their attempts to nominate a candidate through the primary system.
JJ your so sexy man
@@donkey7921There is no such thing as a “two-party system”. If you think we have one, the entire problem is in the mirror. We only have (and SHOULD only have) a choice between status quo and radical change to the political left OR radical change to the political right, giving us three options in EVERY election IF democracy is to work at all. That means we either need a three party system OR we need both of the two parties to mirror each other. However, the two main parties sold you and every other American who foolishly believes in the primary system s bill of goods. They claim, “why vote for third parties when you can vote for change in your own party?” However, this is NOT the way it is supposed to happen. This is because radicals in the two main parties dominate the primary system, so they push us to radical change in EVERY election, which is why Washington DC is so dysfunctional. I am sorry but too much democracy actually DESTROYS democracy and anyone who wants the primary system to stay is a supporter of a purely evil system that is designed to work poorly. It is literally the major reason our entire country is being destroyed from as radicals end up controlling both parties and moderates are sidelined from public discourse..
The purpose of third parties is to force change in the two main parties. That is their ONLY function but they are NECESSARY for the system to work. When the Whigs and the Democrats made the Compromise of 1850, the Free Soil Party came on the scene, NOT to win but rather to force the two main parties to change. That is how we eventually abolished slavery with the Republicans rising up to replace the Whigs because the Whigs refused to change. Every subsequent major change, the two main parties decided to change because of a third party threat and ONLY because of a third party threat.
You see, the way the system is SUPPOSED to work is your ONLY choice is SUPPOSED to be status quo (either Democrat or Republican - it is NOT supposed to matter which one you choose) OR third party. Third parties are NOT “spoilers” or “wasted votes” - they are literally SUPPOSED to be the the ONLY option for change and you are SUPPOSED to have at least THREE options: status quo (with Republicans to the slight right of center and Democrats to the slight left of center). What about third parties? They are supposed to pull BOTH parties to the left OR the right, as the case may be. Third parties should ALWAYS and ONLY be given your vote if you want change. If you are voting for one of the two main parties, you ALWAYS are voting for status quo no matter who you vote for.
If both main parties are not stable but are instead either radical left or radical right (as it is now due to the primary system) then you have NO CHOICE for status quo and you can only choose between radical visions of the country, which is no choice at all if you want stability.
@@donkey7921 WRONG! The CURRENT system is anti-democratic because it is TOO democratic. The only way to save democracy is to ensure a choice between moderates and third parties but you are eliminating moderation. The public should pick the eventual winner in the general election. Only stupid people (like you) who want the two main parties to dominate forever would argue in favor of the current system. Elites are SUPPOSED to put up the status quo candidate and then the public is SUPPOSED to either vote for one of the two main parties OR a third party, which will force the actual change in one of the two main parties (or in both parties). It is NOT supposed to occur from within the parties themselves or else people start naively believing they are forced to choose between the lesser of two evils and you end up with insane presidential candidates like Trump leading the Republicans.
Al Gore is mine. He would have protected us from ManBearPig.
😂😂
Such a good reference. You win the comment section.
He would've done something about climate change. Bush ignoring it was absolutely unforgivable.
@@anticorncob6 makes sense bushes are just plants and can’t stop climate change if they tried
I still can’t believe people take South Park seriously after they did that.
"2) They had to run before the year 2000"
Excellent way to avoid chaos in the comment section 😂
In fairness we haven't even had great candidates from 2000 - 2020 besides maybe Al Gore. The rest were a bunch of Neo Liberals and Neo Cons
@@rich355 Ralph Nader? Gary Johnson? Andrew Yang?
@@nicholasclay1382 I'm referring to canadiates who got the nomination to one of the major parties because let's be honest Ralph Nader and Gary Johnson were never going to win. Andrew Yang didn't receive the nomination, so I don't count him either.
I think it’s because he didn’t vote in any elections before 2000. (He mentioned it in the retrospective election video, I think.)
Bernie wasn’t a neoliberal/neocon
I'm glad to see Ross Perot on here. I grew up in Texas more conservative than I've become, and Perot was very appealing to young me. I remember having a mock debate in school, where three of us had to portray the candidates and argue points they would make. Somehow I was chosen to play Perot - perhaps it was my big ears. Miraculously, I won our mock debate, just like the real guy won his. (A side note: my uncle Ron was an executive at EDS and apparently was fairly close to Perot, which is fun.)
I worked in IT
I really respected Perot
Voted for Perot twice. In hindsight, a wasted vote, Clinton did a rather good job as President
I supported Perot as well. He made sense and I didn't care for the other 2 candidates.
John Anderson was the only Canidate I've met out in public. I saw him at a restaurant in 1979 and asked to talk to him about his plans for the environment, mainly to ask what his opinions are on what the environment of the distant future would be like. Strangely, he was happy to talk and offered me a seat. He was spot on with his predictions, he was wrong about how fast companies would fully adopt green alternatives though, he thought it would be much faster. When I had to leave, I paid for his meal as thanks. I would never see him in person again, I wish I asked for a way of contacting him directly
I remember kids in college in 1979 promoting him, students for Anderson blah blah blah, having campus booths and rally’s in the “grove”
I asked a few at the booth, “what policies of his do you particularly like?”
They said “I don’t know them but boy is he great!”
I was a freshman in college at the time
My favorite candidate was Matt Beat. The governor of Kansas who ran in 2032
Oh snap didddly biddddly
@@iammrbeat I mean, that also means you didn’t win though
@@CalvinKool-Aid he’s still governor
Next he wins!
Senator Beat
Fun fact: my great grandfather was good friends with Wendell Willkie
That’s so cool! Did he pass on any stories?
I find that hard to believe but ok
It is true but you don’t have to believe it
Woah! Do you have any cool stories about them?
Holy crap, that's amazing.
Robert Kennedy? I mean, he died, but if he had lived, I think he would've made a great president.
He would have had the Mafia escorted right to prison. And the communists would have received little mercy. He also would have won in a landslide using his brother's popularity. The whole world was robbed of two great men when the Kennedys were assassinated.
I know!! I was shocked he didn’t choose him!!
@@randomtraveler9854 he would have also pulled us out of Vietnam and improve race relations. Bobby would have been better than Jack imo. Such a shame we were robbed of history.
@@TheDarkChambers. He also would've upped support for apartheid Israel. But as long as you're anti-Arab you're ok I guess.
I think he wasn’t here because he wasn’t alive on election day
Not including presidents after 2000 to avoid controversy was a brilliant move
Not a Potato, he doesn't do Presidents after 2000 because 2000 was the first election in which Mr. Beat voted for President, and he keeps his actual votes to himself.
That, and there are some who may still run and get elected so that would DQ them from this list.
@@chiarac3833 Perhaps, but my comment was not speculation; this is the explanation that Mr. Beat has provided himself.
Recency bias is a pain to deal with.
"This is, obviously, another opinion video" -Guy who knows he's about to get brigaded
Heh, it happens
@@iammrbeat "I'd rather die standing than live kneeling." -VeggieTales' Twitter
@@heatherperleberg7816 Didn't expect VeggieTales to ever pop up in a YT comment thread. Nice.
@@heatherperleberg7816 isn't it "than live kneeling"?
It's actually not a bad list just for some rando's opinion. I would have appreciated seeing Debs on the list. That would have warmed my heart. But I guess everyone has someone they want to see on the list. It's just.... I've got a disease, and the only cure is Eugene V. Debs!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE your number one choice!!! In 1980 I served as local campaign chairman for Anderson and then travelled the country supporting his candidacy.
My only compensation was a stack of bumper stickers which I have yet to exhaust. Every car I’ve owned in the past 41 years has sported an authentic, original “Anderson for President” sticker.
It doesn’t happen all that often, but I do occasionally get pulled aside by an old geezer who remembers Anderson fondly. We chat about him and always agree that we’d have a better country today if JA had been elected.
I'll take one lol
I can't be sure about his presidency, but I was only 11 and I remember him because we were learning about elections in social studies class.
I voted for Anderson.
Perot was the first person I ever voted for. He would have won in he hadn't dropped out of the race then got back in.
That and his choice for running mate.
I think he may have gotten some electoral votes but the two main parties wouldn't have let a third party win
Surprised no ones mentioned him so far but by far my favorite candidate to never win is Henry Wallace, the Progressive Party candidate from 1948. I agree a lot with what he stood for at that time and I really enjoyed his platform. He kinda fell off after that point but I would’ve loved to see a future where he defied the odds.
He would never ever win 48 as a populist. His best chance would be 1948 as the sitting president, if he was still VP when FDR died
I'm glad that you put La Follete so high.
La Follete should be higher than John B. Anderson tbh.
How could I not? lol
Me too. I just wish he would have put Debs on there.
Can we elect fighting Bob now. We could use him.
I wish
Bob Kennedy? He would have taken care of these riots and gangsters. And there wouldn't be any foreign power foolish enough to touch us.
@@randomtraveler9854 no by Fightin Bob he means Bob La Follette
Rest in ☮️ Bob
OH I THOUGHT YOU WERE TALKIN ABOUT BOB DOLE
Love you Matt... This was a pretty suprising list for the most part... Good on you and hope you and your family are doing well
Thank you for your effort Mr. Beat, your videos bring me a gleam of joy whenever you post, especially when they're about the American presidency. I appreciate the knowledge. 😊
BTW you have me singing "Compromise of 1850" intermittently throughout my day at work lol.
😆 I've achieved my life goal.
@@iammrbeat that song will top all the billboards for the next 40 years.
That photo of William Jennings Bryan makes me think Bob Odenkirk could play him in some sort of documentary.
Better call Bryan!
Thank you Mr. Beat, great video. I liked Perot and John B. Anderson also. Always fun to learn more about Wilke too to. I also remember learning about Bryan in my high school history class and felt bad for him constantly trying and losing.
I enjoy your pick for #1 because I was recently looking at Trivial Pursuit cards from 1981 and there was a question about who was third in the popular vote in 1980, and I had no idea. Now I've encountered the answer twice in a month, good stuff
They didn't lose. They merely failed to win!
lol
There actually is a difference between those two statements when considering the possibility of a tie, as Homer Simpson of all people once pointed out.
They just found out ways that didn’t work -Thomas Edison
They were punished severly
Unless they weren’t even given a chance - RIP RFK
Mr. Beat you should do a series on the midterm elections in history
I agree too
I love that idea! Midterms have a massive impact on the second half of every president's terms. Maybe he doesn't need to cover every single one, but at least going back to 1900 would be really cool.
@@metroidnerd9001 Well I figured that since he did every presidential election, he could totally do all of them!
@@coolpanda558 for example the 88th and 89th Congress
@@iammrbeat Awesome! 😄 Midterms are always overlooked, but they really do shape a presidency.
I cast my first vote for John B.Anderson ,and I still proud of that 👏He was a real hero like wendell Willkie. this was really in a very informative and interesting lesson in American presidential electoral history. Thanks so much.
Here after watching the VTH reaction to your video! Also, just like Chris, I wish you congratulations on 1 million subscribers! Happy to be one of them!
No way, I recommend this in his video about his book! This is so exciting, thank you so much!
I added it to my list then and there!
2:25-2:57 I like how you blacked out everything else when listing your criteria, it’s a nice touch. Awesome vid Mr. Beat!
Eugene Debs should have been on this list. Or maybe I'm just too nerdy
Debs was the greatest president that never was
@@night6724 yes.
@@night6724 you've definitely never read any socialist text
@@night6724 socialism is not a state of affairs, and as outlined is a very long and arduous process that is the slow growth of civilization to a more equitable world, not unlike the slow transition from feudalism into mercantilism into capitalism. Can we really expect that capitalism is the final form of economics? If not, what comes next if not a form of socialism
I waited for so long to feature it on your channel. As cool content as always. Thanks Mr. Beat!
Edit: 3:48 - I finally heard the jingle after a long time 😁😁
1. Could you make a video about the difference between the Four corner states?
2. Could you make a video about future presidential candidates or people you'd like to see run for president?
I actually liked Ross Perot and was hoping he would win too, after all he was right about NAFTA
Yeah, NAFTA screwed over a lot of people.
@@iammrbeat I disagree. 94 percent of economists believe in complete free trade( meaning zero tariffs).
@@connorgurgone345 are you disagreeing that NAFTA screwed people over or that Economist hate it?
@@connorgurgone345 free trade only works if both sides do it and there is a level playing field.
NAFTA wasnt close to free trade
Happy to see Tilden on the list! I personally would have put him higher but great video nonetheless. Never heard of Anderson and a few others before it.
I love that in all of your videos math rock plays in the background. Great music choice, and great content overall dude.
Damn it, if Henry Clay isn't #1, I'll put James K. Polk in my profile for a day.
lol
@@iammrbeat Ok, I'll put it in my profile then.
and i'm now changing kit
If Henry Clay or Samuel Tilden are not in top 3 I'm going to unsubscribe
Edit : Ok, they are not in top 3, but I love your channel, I can't unsubscribe
Well Henry Clay probably would have been my 12th or 13th and Samuel Tilden made the top 10 at least (if it's any consolation). Thanks for the kind words. :D
@@iammrbeat If Clay didn't cheated in the election of 1824 I think that he would've been president someday. Probably he was seen as a crook because of that election.
But Jeez, he ran for president for about 6 times, I feel so bad for him...
5) john anderson (i don’t know anything about him other than what was in this video, he seems like a cool guy!)
4) ross perot (didn’t agree with his war on drugs stuff or his flat tax, but a win from him would’ve been HUGE to break to duopoly and we’d probably have a strong third party today if he won)
3) henry wallace (we’d see a far better second half of the twentieth century if he won or if he wasn’t robbed at the 44 convention. he was so far ahead of his time and the people of his time hated him for it)
2) william jennings bryan (populist king)
1) bernie (populist king of my lifetime)
Nice
Bernie Sanders is only a populist for a small but vocal part of the population. Not a populist like Mateusz Morawiecki or Viktor Orbán.
William Jennings Bryan would’ve been a great option, but if McKinley hadn’t defeated him we probably would never have gotten Teddy Roosevelt.
I think Perot supported raising the top marginal tax rate to 35%, while Clinton supported raising it to 39%. Essentially I think Perot was a Moderate Populist version of Bill Clinton. This is because Clinton and Perot has similar policy platforms, with the exception of Perot being even more of a Fiscal Conservative than Clinton.
The 13th Hussar That’s very subjective.
Thank you for your segment on Tilden.
I loved your conclusion on the characteristics of good leaders! Another one that I look for is the ability to listen in their communication style. Too often the loud-mouthed candidate gets popular attention and is lauded as bold for never changing their mind on anything. What those candidates actually demonstrate is an unwillingness to integrate new information into their decision-making process.
Familiar with these names. Webster, Bryan, Perot, etc. Great list.
I was really looking forward to a video like this on your channel and you didn't disappoint
@@iammrbeat Your Welcome
You seem like an awesome teacher. I'm sure your students are very lucky to have you.
I grew up in Northern Illinois. I remember being 11yo and hearing my dad get all worked up when John Anderson announced his candidacy. A true WTF moment at my house.
Worked up as in excited or disappointed that he was running? lol
@@iammrbeat My folks were not the most... savvy, shall we say, regarding politics. They could not imagine why anyone need enter the presidential race when the two major parties each had candidates.
Am i the only one who founds US history more interesting than the history of his own country ( I am from Czech Republic).
Surprisingly, no lol
Personally I find Czech history pretty interesting, from the Kingdom of Bohemia and Hussites, to interwar Czechoslovakia, the later Communist regime and Alexander Dubcek and the Prague Spring 🇨🇿
I’m from Italy and yes, US history is more interesting then my country’s history
History is interesting. I had a chance to visit the Czech Republic and Slovakia in the fall of 2019 and found it very fascinating. I love US history, but I’m most obsessed with the history of Great Britain. Perhaps we find interesting those topics we don’t necessarily grow up with?
Cheers from Idaho.
@@francescolimberti7306 Endless war, political intrigue and the South (either Sicily or Naples) rising up again and again? Sounds interesting to me.
Mr. Beat's new hit: "compromise of 1850" 🎶 🎵
Ur videos give me hope. Please keep making content
Angry comment: "I won the election, by A LOT! There were 1,157,328 LEGAL votes! The rest were FRAUD."
Normal comment: I lost the election, by a lot...and I approve of your choice for #2! I'm a big fan of him as well.
Great to hear from you, Henry 😄
You got 19,000 less votes than Thurmond and if you hadn't run Truman would have won New York meaning that 1916 would have been the last time New York went to the losing Republican instead of 1948.
@@abrahamlincoln937 excellent reply mr President
@@koreywitabagg665 Thanks and Truman lost New York in 1948 by 61,000 votes to Dewey. Wallace got over 500,000 votes in New York in 1948 and Wallace pulled a lot of liberal voters away from Truman who previously voted for FDR causing Dewey to win New York by a 1% margin. But even though Truman lost New York, he still got 303 electoral votes and won the election. If he won New York, he would have gotten 350 electoral votes.
OMG...after JUST NOW literally commenting precisely about HAW, I see this....BRILLIANT
Most important midterm elections in American history
I like it
@@Blaqjaqshellaq I meant it as a video suggestion
Some candidates: 1854, 1866, 1918, 1966, 1994
You're right, I did love the #1 pick. Anderson is one of my favorite presidential candidates. I actually managed to get my hands on one of the few remaining copies of the book written about his campaign.
Keep doing these great top 10 videos
These videos are the best. History is so many things. Finding the highlights is too much work for most
Thanks Forrest!
The best qualified people to be in charge wisely don’t want to be in charge.
I know right?
Colin Powell is a huge example. I would have loved him to be President instead of George W. Bush
I got ground news a few weeks ago as a result of one of your videos
Hey, Mr.Beat, just a suggestion of a video: Who would be the person that descends from most U.S presidents? I was watching a documentary on Richard Nixon and realized that his daughter was married to Eisenhower's grandson, making their children descendents of two presidents. I was wondering if there is someone that has more than 2 presidential ancestors.
Yes, there are people with multiple direct ancestors who were president.
The daughters and grandchildren of George W. Bush have both Bushes for ancestors. As do the descents of John Quincy Adam’s have both Adams as ancestors. Descendants of Benjamin Harrison also have William Henry Harrison as a direct ancestor.
@@tylerkochman1007 That's literally exactly what I thought of lol
@@tylerkochman1007 Sure, but the person said "more than two."
The answer is "No," right? No one is descended from three former presidents?
I don't think anyone descends from more than two presidents.
BUT! SOMEone is an ancestor of more than two... in fact, humanity being what it is, every single person on the planet 300 000 years ago was an ancestor of all 46... but, who would be the most recently living ancestor of three presidents?
This is a good tier list. good job
I ought to complete a tier list so I can comment on the others
Hey I really wanted this video! This is rad!
Yay!
@@iammrbeat THE KING REPLIES!! LETS GOOOOOO
My great-grandparents named one of their dogs after Wendell Wilkie. He was a good boy. The OG Wendell Wilkie sounds pretty awesome, too.
Henry Clay would be mine, although Hubert Humphrey an Tom Dewey are really underrated also. Humphrey in particular came super close to actually winning in 1968 and I think would have been able to do a ton if he’d won given his experience in the Senate helping to pass stuff like the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
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Those adds are aggravating for some reason.
I do not know why maybe it's because they are repetitive.
Incredibly new subscriber here! I absolutely love your videos! One video I would like to see is to put the best candidates from each party against each other according to generation (Ex: Thomas Jefferson vs Abraham Lincoln for the 1800's or something along those lines). Keep up the amazing videos!
Thanks for the kind words, Jack, and great suggestion!
You call that same generation? Thomas Jefferson's presidency was over before Abe Lincoln was born.
Fun fact: Two of my favourite people in history was born in the same year. Abe Lincoln and Charles Darwin were both born in 1809.
@@johanrunfeldt7174 Actually no, Lincoln was born during the Jefferson Presidency. Lincoln was born in February, 1809, and Jefferson's presidency ended in March, 1809, the month after Lincoln was born.
This is such a good video keep doing what your doing👍
Always enjoy your channel. BTW Irving Stone wrote a fun book many years ago called “They Also Ran” about presidential campaign winners & losers and who should have won.
Thank you for John Anderson. I voted for him in 1980, and people just didn't understand how I could have "wasted" my vote like that.
Could you make a top 10 US Attorney General list? I think it would be quite interesting and bring light to a relatively unknown position compared to Senators, President, and Vice President.
Excellent video-you've stirred my interest in learning more about a few of those failed candidates.William Jennings Bryan? Kind of a gamble don't you think?
Constantly learning great deal of stuff, no matter how familiar I might be with names! And I always love the endings of your videos - You manage to outline right on spot things that cross my mind as well. The red flags on a potential candidate and not being able to help but think to yourself "My! Why is that person even happy to be advancing in the race... Does he not know this job will be the HELL of his lifetime??" Yeah, for real! :D
I liked John Delaney! He was MY congressman!!! If YOU are saying he sounds have been president! I know I WAS right to vote for HIM.
Mr. beat: “please leave a angry comment below” 11:20
Me: Angry
9:00 Back then, most candidates didn’t campaign, their supporters did.
great video. very simple and clear. direct to our common senses.
Bernie Sanders was probably one of my favorites. Despite his losses, he did influence a lot of people to run for office on platforms similar to him and win, and much like Barry Goldwater, he'll be vindicated in the long run, and we'll probably get a president who happens to be one of his supporters.
He wouldn’t have accomplished anything notable if he were president
I liked him too until 2020. He became a real phony in my opinion
Griffin McCray I completely agree. I liked Bernie’s message but he was piss poor at playing politics. And while I find that’s admirable in a personal sense it’s not admirable when you can’t get bills passed because you won’t compromise on anything. It’s hard because ideologically I agree we shouldn’t compromise on shit but pragmatically that’s what makes the country function is compromises. However that only works if both sides are willing to compromise which they’re not. Democrats always compromise to republicans and not the other way which means we get more and more right wing bullshit.
I almost didn't want to vote in 2020 when he lost to Biden
I still don't think Biden really deserved my vote
While i have MANY problems with Bernie Sanders (to the point where i'd vote for most Republicans over him), it's hard to deny that Bernie and his fanbase have made an impact on the world, to the point where Bernie got ~0.2% of the popular vote in 2016 (including 6% in his home state of Vermont) despite not being on the ballot in any state.
If Robert La Follette is now your second favorite governor, who’s your favorite governor now and which state was he or she governor of?
Huey Long!
@@iammrbeat So, you're upgrading?
I am from the Netherlands and I want to thank Mr. Beat for educating me on the great history of the United States!
@@s.c5714 go brush your teeth - from rhode island
@@feyenoord8691 90% of the country doesn't even know that rhode island exists - from california
I love your videos Mr Beat ❤
Lmao Mr. Beat's finally back
lmao indeed
You do everything in your power to avoid talking about Al Gore and the election of 2000 lol
lol well, to be fair, that was the first election I voted in
@@iammrbeat but he won’t say WHO he voted for
@@jacobmuraco4276 when?
Great video
so glad this idea came to fruition!
Where is his holiness, God Emperor Jeb Bush?
*JEB!*
Please, clap!
Jeb!
"Major contender"
People rejected his candidacy because they realized the terrible job his brother did. And his dad wasn't all that great either.
Anderson created FairVote?!!! You convinced me I like him even more!
Unfortunately LaFollette would have died in his first year of presidency (he passed away in 1925).
He only died because he lost the Presidency!
But yeah I love Fairvote, too. :D
That’s nothing. Both Wendell Willkie and his running mate died in what would have been their first term, if they had been elected.
I love your videos!
As I recall, in 1992 there was a guy supposedly running who included giving every american a YoYo in his platform. I don't know how you missed him.
While I appreciate some of Wendell Wilkie’s policies I would 100% vote for Roosevelt.
If it ain't broke don't fix it.
@@stevencaruso825 Well, it kind of WAS still broke. The Great Depression was still lingering in 1940.
Is there anyone who has made a scientific historical study on how Willkie would have co-operated with Churchill? Roosevelt and Churchill had a great connection to each other.
@@johanrunfeldt7174 Not based in any facts but based purely on a guess, I think that considering politically Roosevelt and Churchill were less similar that Wilkie and Churchill, the relationship could've been better. Although, Roosevelt and Churchill likely just had very good chemistry and also both saw Germany as an active threat. It's tough to say but regardless I think US-UK relations would've been exactly the same.
@@iammrbeat Yeah but it was getting better, the country was looking up at the time and while some of Roosevelt's programs didn't work a lot of his other ones did
WHAT ABOUT MY MAIN MAN TRPPLE H??? He was for civil rights back in 1948 way before it was cool, he had loads of vision, always had the support of labor, basicly the main force behind Medicare and Medicaid, an incredible public speaker, was super chill about his loss in 1968 despite the popular vote being so close. Basicly a legend in Minnesotan politics as fighting Bob was for Wisconsin politics there's slot of stuff named after him in the Minneapolis St. Paul area. Also was a huge influence on Walter Mondale who I also think should have made the list. (Can you tell I'm Minnesotan.) Great video tho John Anderson does get overlooked glad to see him get a shoutout.
MR Beat I love history and I love your videos keep them coming❤️❤️❤️😍😍
Thanks Anthony!
Nice video!
I've always wanted to make a channel similar to yours but for British politics instead. Like using this video as an example, I can think of thousands of people off the top of my head who ran for PM, and would've made great PMs, but sadly lost. It's a shame I don't really have much time to do something like that.
Ya know I was really expecting clay
Well I just liked him better in Congress
@@iammrbeat that’s fair
@@zachzgod7354 Polk was one of the greatest presidents in history and Clay would not have been as great as Polk.
@@nicholasqualls9018 That's true he ran in 1824, 1832 and 1844
I think I suggested a similar video on your Reddit!
Thank you Mr. Beat!
Well thank you!
I think William Jennings Bryan should be #1
I’m not sure how I feel about Ross Perot. How he dropped out for his “duaghter” which was clearly a lie it just seems somewhat shady…
I still have grand conspiracy theories about it. Don't get me started!
Perot was exciting, but he would not have been a good president.
This is also a really nice video idea.
Another Video Idea for Mr. Beat
Top 10 Worst Presidential Candidates that were glad never made it into the Presidency.
George Wallace and Strom Thurmond would definitely be on that list
@@kryptonianknight2344 Agreed. John Breckenridge is another.
Was a little surprised to not see any Henry Wallace, but otherwise largely agree!
Good video as usual :)
If Huey Long lived to run in 1936... America could be very different.
Another thing about these candidates, over half of them were third party candidates (including your top 3). So the outsiders tend to have an advantage here.
Also my dad voted for John Anderson in his first election, but never really told me why. All he says is his dad told him it was a wasted vote.
Many of us supported Anderson because he was smart, honest, and centrist, and we didn't want to have to choose between Carter and Reagan. An Anderson quote about those two: "Reagan would lead us in the wrong direction, and Carter has been leading us in circles."
That is practically what all the elections since, have definitely reminded me of
Fact of the Day: I own a campaign shirt of John B. Anderson! I got it for an excellent price, and couldn’t be more happy to own it. Anderson was very underrated, and similar to your stance, I wish he would get more attention.
That's amazing!
Hey! Cal
Ay, I got an Anderson campaign button from an antique shop.
Im glad you picked that it had to be before 2000. I was worried for you when i seen the title if you named any of them after that because you know how some people be 😂
I'm happy you kept it generally uncontroversial