Why has there never been an Italian-American President?

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Has there ever been a French-Canadian president? Or even a French president?

Or Portuguese?

Or Dutch?

Or Scandinavian?

Or Eastern-European (like from Russia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Albania, Greece, etc.)?

Dutch is easy one. Martin Van Buren, Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt.

Greek? No, the closest a Greek-American came to the Presidency was with Spiro Agnew (as Vice President) and Michael Dukakis (as presidential nominee).

Polish? No, the closest was Edmund Muskie (as vice presidential nominee and a major candidate for presidential nominatioon.

Scandinavian? No, the closest were Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale, as Vice Presidents and presidential nominees.

Russian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Albanian? I'm positive that no.

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The surprise -- in view of their outstanding achievements in politics -- is Jews.

Not when you consider that they tend to be too liberal to be palatable in a general election. Paul Wellstone, Barbara Boxer, Jacob Javits, all would be DOA in a general election.

And the ones who aren't lefties are usually neocon HPs who'd be better running for Prime Minister of Israel.

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2008. America would have elected a Jewish President had the Democratic nominee been Jewish. There were lots of rumors about FDR, but I am not sure that those weren't in circulation in 1932.

Speaking of FDR it's interesting anti-Jewish bigotry helped him to narrowly win his hist term as New York Governor (which ultimately led to his Presidency) over Jewish Republican Albert Ottinger. Ironically, FDR's own running-mate and eventual successor in Albany was Herbert Lehman'

Heck, 1928 was a truly traumatic choice for the bigots from New York state. Either Jew Ottinger (who faced symethric problem, this time from inside Jewish community, as many perceived him as not orthodox enough) or FDR, a protege of that Papist and a puppet of the Roman Pope Al Smith. In fact NY KKK circulated rumors in rural upstate that Roosevelt is a Catholic himself and, if elected, he'll annule all protestant marriages