quote:
We’re gonna have four candidates with a decent nationwide following. Trump, GOPe’s favorite RINO of the month (I’d say Haley), Biden or other other Democrat elite (Gavin, Kamala, Michelle Obama), and Kennedy.

Anyone know when the last major 4 person presidential race was held?

I know there have always been minor party candidates, but I cannot recall recently a race with 4 major candidates garnering a few percentage points of the vote and winning a few states each.

The only race that I can remember from history class would have been the 1860 presidential race where you had the Democratic Party split North and South, Constitutional Union Party Candidate, and Abraham Lincoln as the Republican candidate.

You also had some 3 man races since World War II:
1948 - Truman, Dewey, Thurmond (Carried only 2% of the vote but won 4 states)
1968 - Nixon, Wallace, and Humphrey (won 5 states and 13.5% of the vote)
1980 - Reagan, Carter, and Anderson (won 6% of the vote, but no states)
1992 - Clinton, Bush, and Perot (won 19% of the vote, but won no states)
1996 - Clinton, Dole, and Perot (won 8% of the vote, but no states)

1912 was a 4 man race.
Wilson 435 Electoral Votes 41.8%
Roosevelt 88 Electoral Votes 27.4%
Taft 8 Electoral Votes 23.2%
Debs 0 Electoral Votes 6%

1860 4 Man Race
Lincoln 180 Electoral Votes 39.8%
Breckinridge 72 Electoral Votes 18.1%
Bell 39 Electoral Votes 12.6%
Douglas 12 Electoral Votes 29.5%

1824 4 Man Race
Jackson 99 Electoral Votes
John Quincy Adam’s 84 Electoral Votes
Crawford 41 Electoral Votes
Clay 37 Electoral Votes
Note: Because no one received a majority of electoral votes, the House elected John Quincy Adams with 13 states over Andrew Jackson’s 7 states. William Crawford carried 4 states.

This post was edited on 9/29/23 at 6:57 pm