Top Ten Failed Candidates

[12th Doctor]

4. John Q. Adams, 1828, That damn Andrew Jackson never let Adams get any of his agenda out, which would have helped in the long run.

Both campaigns leveled some really terrible allegations against one another... the difference was that the things that the Adams people said about Jackson were largely true, whereas the things the Jackson people said about Adams were absolutely false.

[12th Doctor]

And you are mistaken Gio...

Goldwater was very much opposed to the Religious Right.  And I think if Reagan had any clue was the Religious Right would become, he woudl have stayed away from them too.