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There is the “loser” contingent of Kerry and Gore. The Democratic Party does not look kindly on losers. While the party line is that the elections were stolen, the Democrats know better. They know full well that both Gore and Kerry lost. Both had their shot at the big time and they blew it. They will not get a second chance. Pretty-boy Edwards will make a run and perhaps he did learn a few things from his failed run with John Kerry, but when a man barely wins his own home state he doesn’t stand a good chance of winning the nomination. Ask yourself this: How much campaigning did Bush and Cheney have to do in their home states of Texas and Wyoming? Do people realize that had Al Gore won his own home state of Tennessee it would have been President Gore instead of President Bush? Gore is the only presidential candidate in American history not to win his own state. |
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Last Presidential candidate (4.00 / 5) not to win his home state? McGovern in 1972. So, yes, it's happened before. In 1968, Richard Nixon lost his adopted home state of New York to Humphrey (he had been living in NYC since 1963). Before that, Thomas E, Dewey lost New York in 1944 to fellow New Yorker Franklin Roosevelt. Woodrow Wilson lost New Jersey in his 1916 re-election bid but won the election. The parallel I prefer would be Grover Cleveland, though. He lost his home state of New York in his 1888 re-election bid while winning the national popular vote. If he had won New York, he would have won the election. Four years later, when he ran again, he did not make that mistake, winning New York solidly, and with it, the election, becoming the only President to serve nonconsecutive terms. |