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Unless Ford is caught in a dead girl, live boy situation, I have serious doubts about a candidate from New York doing anything like that well in the South, btw. The only time in this period when the Democrats did better in the South than nationally was when Carter was heading the ticket - at all...

As strange as it may seem, philosophy or views were hardly taken into account in the selection. What was important was White being highly-regarded in the administration, and his being highly qualified. I think it's worth bearing in mind that it was entirely another era in terms of appointments...

Romney's qualities can't really be discussed without intruding on current politics - unlike all the other options he's an active politician and a sitting Senator, still casting votes and all the rest. Tbh this is more of a Chat thread than an after 1900 thread.

Even as a Trump presidency-aborting measure, it's still pretty... giggle-inducing that people would be willing to vote for him on a poll like this. Out of all those options, Mitt Romney would have made the best president! Pretty tenuous anyway given any of the names above would have changed...

I think it's not just that he didn't run in 1976, it's the fact that he didn't run in any other race subsequent to 1980 either. Certainly he was still considered as a serious potential contender had he wanted to pursue a nomination as 'late' as the eighties - he was young enough to do. Given the...

In addition to Hastie and Freund, Arthur Goldberg was in contention, but state supreme court justices Roger Traynor of California and Walter V. Schaefer of Illinois were also given some small consideration. I'm not aware of where Schaefer was philosophically but presumably he was acceptable...

Clinton would never have been nominated in 1988. The only reason he was in 1992 was because of years of a backlash at the media for the Gary Hart saga, which allowed him a degree of oxygen with the public in respect of his baggage. If he'd announced in 1987, the press would have eaten him alive.

I focused on the early states because nomination campaigns are often functionally over after the early states, which usually result in one candidate pulling away from the rest of the pack. And indeed, this was the case in 1980, with Bush never truly recovering from the Nashua debate, and...

Who goes into an election avowedly promising to get the country involved in a war?

Howard Baker won 15 percent of the vote in Iowa, and both he and John Anderson polled into double figures in New Hampshire. An odd definition of everyone uniting behind Bush, to be sure...

I'm tickled there are people who believe the media wouldn't touch the rumours about Cuomo's mob ties. Among other things the media happily publicised in that cycle were rumours about Dukakis' mental health - which Reagan ended up 'joking' about - which was entirely based on some fringe...

No and let's try to keep this off current politics.

Dumping Quayle was sounded out in a very tentative way by some parts of the Bush campaign, but it went nowhere - the polls they commissioned confirmed what they already knew, VPs have very little effect on elections. In addition, Quayle was a fave of the right, and dumping him would have played...

Broadly-speaking, this, more or less. War support and the economy were just holding up well enough to ensure a re-election. Obviously there were micro factors like Rove's aggressive mobilisation of voters and Kerry's deficiencies as a candidate but the big picture pointed in Bush's direction. I...

Given the way the first post is framed, I assume you're referring to 92, not 96 as in the title. In any case, I'm dubious that Perot would have meaningfully affected the race had he stayed in. He got out when he did because the sheen had began to wear off, and the media was starting to probe...

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I'm not even sure he'd be nominated in 1986, if Purcell retires. With one general election loss and one nomination loss, he'd start to get the perennial candidate tag hung around him. Presumably he'd have one serious opponent for the nomination in the form of Bryant, and maybe AG Steve Clark too.

Unless I'm missing something, if Purcell dies on schedule to OTL, the next election is in 1990, not 1988 - the Arkansas constitution had changed before 1986 away from two-year terms. Even if Clinton somehow defeated Winston Bryant as the three-year incumbent in 1990 - which I severely doubt -...

Bush had a firewall in the Southern States on Super Tuesday, where Reagan was very popular, and Bush's stronger and better financed campaign was going to out-compete Dole once the nomination evolved from retail politics to the air war. Even if Dole had won Iowa and New Hampshire I doubt he would...

I don't think Gore runs. I think Gore was very much done with electoral politics after 2000. He didn't give any sense of re-entering, particularly once he was ensconced in his activism. Indeed if anything Obama was responding to soundings out about Gore not running, not the other way round...