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Exactly; Cheney wasn't running because he knew, as a career insider and dour bureaucrat, that he made a poor candidate. George H.W. Bush either didn't know or didn't care that he was a poor candidate. Which makes it difficult to know why anyone would see him "easily" winning the race against candidates who have him beat in conservative bona fides, campaigning ability, fundraising, electoral history...
A "poor" candidate against the opponents he was facing? He may not have been an All-Star in that area, but he wasn't the strictly bench material alternatives out there at the time. And with Iran (his diplomatic/CIA background) and the economy (oil businessman) he would have mopped the floor with the detail obsessed micro-manager Carter. Does anybody remember the humiliation he dealt to Geraldine Ferraro in the 1984 VP Debate?