Rank losing campaigns from Best to Worse Since 1972

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Best campaigns:

1.) Got to give Kerry credit. Edwards was weak on Foreign policy and he came closest to beating an incumbent president.  Had Kerry picked Gephardt instead of Edwards, then Kerry would have been president, which Gephardt would have drove out the Union vote to get the extra 50K votes, in OH as well as win NM

2.) HILLARY CLINTON, had it not been for the Comey memo that sealed the deal for Donald Trump, she would have won PA,WI, and MI. Hillary was still in the game, until Pat Toomey was declared the winner

3.) VEEP GORE-Monicagate probably crushed his ambitions to be president. But, if Graham would have been selected Veep, the state would have been kinder to him, for asking for a recount, never know.

Mediocre:

4.) Romney in the summer of 2012, was clearly gaining on Prez Obama, until he made the 47% comment. However, with a 2006 senate map, maybe his campaign was doomed from the start. Due, to Sherrod Brown and Bob Casey Jr, carrying the day for Obama-Biden in OH and PA

5.) John McCain: Ted Stevens and Sarah Palin and the Larry Craig fiasco, and the convention in MN ruined the day for Sarah Palin and John McCain. Just having the convention in MN, had Huckabee been selected, still would have hurt McCain's chances.

6.) Gerald Ford: Was a close election, and he made the mistake of saying Eastern Slavic Bloc wasn't under Soviet domination.

Honorable Mention

7.) GHW Bush: Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas, just like Monica Gate hurt Bush's chances, just like it did Al Gore's chances, and Ross Perot did Bush no favors, either

8.) Jimmy Carter 1980: couldn't stand up well to Reagan's performance, and had the Oil Crisis.

9.) Bob Dole 1996: Lost due to Gingrich unpopularity and the good economy

10.) Michael Dukakis 1988, strong economy helped GHW Bush get elected.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

George HW Bush ran a horrible campaign due to the Anita Hill controversy and Clarence Thomas and looking at his watch at the debate.