Super Prez I
OK, here it is: George “Father of Our Country” Washington versus Ronald “Won the Cold War” Reagan.
The run-up has been great fun for everyone, and here is the title match, football style. The voting begins right now, and will run through Sunday night. Only one vote per person, e-mail address, or I.P. address. There was a problem a few people trying to punch in extra votes the last couple rounds, so now there’s a penalty - any IP address which votes more than once will have all of its submissions disqualified.
Remember also, this is about learning History, so if you can, be sure to include any interesting historical points, especially ones which would be relevant in a comparison between Washington and Reagan.
Also, in case your particular favorite President didn’t do that well in the Football-style matchups, don’t forget we’ll be running all 42 in a March Madness Tourney (the scores will likely be more appopriate to a basketball setting anyway). I’m opening the floor to a discussion on how we’ll seed the 42 (with such a number, there will be likely 20 1st-round matchups, with 22 getting a 1st-round bye). Suggestions with merit so far have included giving precedence to 2-termers, and allowing reader votes to decide rankings.
But for now, choose your captains for the coin toss, and call it in the air!
— DJ Drummond