Things sure have changed... (previous presidential candidates)

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Take a look at some of these party affiliations. You wouldn't see some of them in head-to-head match-ups today. I guess the cold ward helped change that. (from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Us_presidential_elections)

1892* Grover Cleveland* (Democrat) Benjamin Harrison (Republican);James Weaver (Populist)
1896 William McKinley (Republican) William Jennings Bryan (Democrat/Populist)
1900 William McKinley (Republican) William Jennings Bryan (Democrat)
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (Republican) Alton B. Parker (Democrat);Eugene V. Debs (Socialist)
1908 William Howard Taft (Republican) William Jennings Bryan (Democrat);Eugene V. Debs (Socialist)
1912* Woodrow Wilson* (Democrat) Theodore Roosevelt (Bull-Moose/Progressive);William Howard Taft (Republican)Eugene V. Debs (Socialist)
1916* Woodrow Wilson* (Democrat) Charles Evans Hughes (Republican);Allan L. Benson (Socialist)
1920 Warren G. Harding (Republican) James M. Cox (Democrat);Eugene V. Debs (Socialist)
1924 Calvin Coolidge (Republican) John W. Davis (Democrat);Robert M. La Follette, Sr. (Progressive)
1928 Herbert Hoover (Republican) Al Smith (Democrat)
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) Herbert Hoover (Republican);Norman Thomas (Socialist)
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) Alf Landon (Republican);William Lemke (Union)