November scenarios

[flaja]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Nixon chose Ford.

Ford was appointed Vice-President after Agnew resigned. Ford was never anybody’s VP running mate.

[flaja]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Reagan chose Bush Sr. Don't forget the VP is usually the presumptive nominee 8 years hence.

Not really.

I don’t know about the Democrats right off, but it wasn’t until 1956 that the Republicans re-nominated an incumbent VP- and I think Nixon in 1960 was the first time in history that the Republicans nominated an incumbent VP for president.

Furthermore, the 1976 Republican running mate, Bob Dole, wasn’t nominated for president for 20 years and neither Dan Quayle, nor Jack Kemp has ever been nominated for president. The same goes for Ferraro, Bentsen, Liberman abd Edwards for the Democrats.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by flaja

Don’t get your hopes up that a ticket that has Hilary will be voted down just because it has Hilary. Anyone who insists that that there is a large anti-Hilary vote should remember that this country was stupid enough to put her husband in the Oval Office twice.

H-i-l-l-a-r-y....

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Really. Fool me once...

Personally, I'm happy the guy never offered me any reason to vote for him -- either time.

Sometime in the last century, I pulled a voting lever for a Democrat, maybe even for some national office that wasn't President. But I can't remember when. Definitely not in the Nineties, and we're getting done with the naughty-Oughties.