Wow, was it just me or was Clinton getting slaughtered in the spring of 1992? Damn. Guess the primaries really hurt him.
Do you think a governor of Arkansas would have gotten the nomination, if Dems were perceived as having a snowball chance in hell? Why do you think did Hamlet Cuomo decided to answer negatively to the question "to run or not to run"?
Skeletons in the closet. . .
None of which were ever substantiated. They guy had run, what, 3 NY statewide campaigns by then - don't tell me these are fought with kids gloves on. And, as we know, it's not like Clinton's closet was freshly painted and smelling of roses.
Anyway, NY wasn't the only major state around with a presidentiable governor. Yes, Clinton is a genius as a politician - but he was still an unknown draft-evader governor of a third-tier state, running against a victorious war-time President from the heroic generation. Of course, nobody thought he had a chance - Dems didn't nominate him because they thought he could win, he was supposed to be a sacrificial lamb.
