Fail To The Chief

Thom Woodley dives into the history of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, two-time federalist loser (1804 and 1808).  New episodes coming the first tuesday of every month!

Special Re-Release! Thom Woodley dives deep into the life of the very first presidential loser (and star of the stage) Aaron Burr. Not just the bad guy in Hamilton... he very much played the bad guy in real life. But also the good guy! Because it's history and history is confusing.  Enjoy and let us know by reaching out to us on @failtothechief on Instagram if you are interested in us continuing to re-edit and re-release old episodes (or just get to the new stuff already?). 

Comic historian Thom Woodley dissects the back stories, politics and failures of the men who lost presidential elections. In this episode, epic 1876 loser Samuel Tilden, who had the election stolen right from under his beaklike nose.  

Join comic historian Thom Woodley as he investigates the losers of presidential history. In this episode, Liberal Republican candidate and New York Tribune founder-editor Horace Greeley. He lost to Ulysses Grant, was a titan of media, and a journalistic icon, as well as a brilliant genius and possible lunatic. (History politics presidents worst comedy)

Join comic historian Thom Woodley on a discussion of the very Trumplike candidate to lose against Abraham Lincoln in the middle of the Civil War. 

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Join humorist historian Thom Woodley as he discusses the men who lost presidential elections. This time he talks about conservative icon and uber-loser Barry Goldwater.  Please subscribe and rate us on iTunes! And follow us at @failtothechief. 

Humorist historian discuss the presidential losers.  In this episode, Gov. James Cox of Ohio, who lost in 1920 to Warren G. Harding and bears a striking similarity to Gov. John Kasich of Ohio.

Thom reads the New York Times' premature and erroneous obituary of John C. Breckinridge, thought to be killed in the Civil War (but actually surviving for another 12 years).

Join humorist historian Thom Woodley on a whirlwind tour through the losers of presidential history.

Comic historian Thom Woodley @thomwoodley dives into one presidential loser each episode. This time it's the sole nominee of the short-lived Constitutional Union party, John Bell of Tennessee.

Join comic historian on a tour through the presidential losers of elections past.  @failtothechief

Join comic historian Thom Woodley (@thomwoodley) as he explores a losing presidential candidate of the past, and discusses how they got the nomination, how they lost, what life might be like if they had won, and what they might be like if they were on the political scene today.  This episode: Fighting Bob La Follette, Wisconsin Progressive, of the 1924 election. 

join comic historian Thom Woodley as he discusses the losers of the presidential elections of the past, and debates what kind of president said loser would have made. In this episode, the 1856 election and the first Republican candidate, John C. Fremont. 

Join comic historian @thomwoodley as he explores the foibles and facts of the losers of our presidential elections.  Follow us @failtothechief and check out failtothechief.wordpress.com for more. 

Comic historian Thom Woodley (@thomwoodley) takes you on a tour through the rogues gallery of presidential candidates who didn't quite make it. This episode, Lewis Cass (Democrat, 1848), who lost to Zachary Taylor. 

Comic historian @thomwoodley discusses the candidate Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election, and what would have happened had he won. 

Comic historian Thom Woodley @thomwoodley talks about congressional legend Daniel Webster's failed 1836 Presidential bid, and the two other times he could have very easily become president.