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So I've always wondered why Mario Cuomo never ran for president; he had an excellent record, was a fantastic orator, and it doesn't look like he had any major scandals. So why didn't he run?

My opinion is that two factors caused him to refuse to run in 1992. First, his fellow liberal Northeasterner Michael Dukakis losing badly in 1988, and second, the perception that George HW Bush was unstoppable, so waiting for 1996 (when Bush wouldn't be able to run again) would be better politically.

To get Cuomo to run, you'd have to have a non-Northeastern Democrat take Dukakis's place and lose to HW Bush, yet at the same time have Bush appear vulnerable in 1992.

My question now is, what PoDs would make this possible?
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