Back in 2004, many people considered Gary Locke, a Chinese-American governor of the state of Washington, to a leading candidate in 2008 for the vice presidency or even the presidency. But after he had given the Democrats' response to Bush's 2004 State of the Union address, some hate mail got to him and he decided against going further into the public eye, choosing not to run for reelection in 2004. What if Locke had not gotten any hate mail and decided to pursue his political career further? How far could he have gotten?