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« on: August 13, 2005, 07:12:25 PM »

Who is the person you would most like to have seen be President, but who never was President?

Some examples

A Presidential nominee who never won the Presidency.

A candidate for a Presidential nomination who never won a Presidential nomination.

A person who never ran for President who you would like to have seen be President.

A person who will not be running for President who you would like to see become President.
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« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2005, 07:35:12 PM »

Apparently, Mike Easley.
Fritz Hollings, Mary Landrieu, Colin Powell to name some others.
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« Reply #2 on: August 13, 2005, 09:03:55 PM »

Alfred Smith
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« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2005, 09:04:43 PM »

Alton Parker
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« Reply #4 on: August 13, 2005, 09:18:23 PM »


No, seriously.
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« Reply #5 on: August 13, 2005, 09:20:09 PM »

Adlai Stevenson
Walter Mondale
William Jennings Bryan
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« Reply #6 on: August 13, 2005, 09:21:14 PM »


What are you getting at? He was anti- New Deal.
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« Reply #7 on: August 13, 2005, 10:25:27 PM »

Winfield,
I will answer each of your examples.

A Presidential nominee who never won the Presidency: Barry Goldwater, Bob Dole

A candidate for a Presidential nomination who never won a Presidential nomination: John Connally, Margret Chase Smith

A person who never ran for President who you would like to have seen be President. Norman Schwarzkopf

A person who will not be running for President who you would like to see become President: Dick Cheney, Tommy Franks (even though there are some rumors about him in '08).
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« Reply #8 on: August 13, 2005, 11:14:27 PM »


Yup, he was left-leaning economically, but he believed the New Deal was down right socialistic.
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« Reply #9 on: August 14, 2005, 07:46:57 AM »

Huey Long, Ralph Nader, etc.
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« Reply #10 on: August 14, 2005, 10:52:31 PM »

terry sanford.

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« Reply #11 on: August 15, 2005, 12:30:21 AM »

Limiting myself to the last fifty years (the media age of voters is 50)

Nominated but not elected:

Democrat = Adalai Stevenson II

Republican = Barry Goldwater

Never nominated:

Democrat -  Henry M. Jackson

Republican - Phil Gramm


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« Reply #12 on: August 15, 2005, 12:39:49 AM »

Democrat-Bobby Kennedy, George McClellan, Al Sharpton

Republican-John McCain, Lincoln Chafee

Other-Ben Franklin, Robert LaFolette, Anderson (i forgot his first name Tongue)
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« Reply #13 on: August 15, 2005, 12:41:29 AM »

Democrat-Bobby Kennedy, George McClellan, Al Sharpton

Republican-John McCain, Lincoln Chafee

Other-Ben Franklin, Robert LaFolette, Anderson (i forgot his first name Tongue)

I think that's John Anderson.  Tough name to remmmeber Wink

I would say Chafee, Franklin, RFK, LaFollette, Anderson, Dewey, Stevenson, Humphrey, Clay and Christopher Shays
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« Reply #14 on: August 15, 2005, 08:35:17 AM »


That's strange.  Never would have expected you to say that.
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« Reply #15 on: August 16, 2005, 05:52:24 AM »

Thomas Dewey
James Cox
Adlai Stevenson

William Jennings Bryan
Huey Long
Robert Kennedy

J. Danforth Quayle (im not serious with this one, i'd just like to see what a big mess he would have made. "potatoe")
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« Reply #16 on: August 16, 2005, 09:24:42 AM »

Henry Clay
Adlai Stevenson
Robert Kennedy (the only one of the Kennedy brothers whom I actually liked)
Fritz Hollings
Lloyd Bentsen would have been a better candidate than Dukakis in '88 and given Bush a run for his money, but I'm not sure how he would have fared as president.

Tom Dewey would have been a good, if uncharismatic president, but I can't go against Truman.
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« Reply #17 on: August 16, 2005, 11:16:11 AM »

Should be fairly obvious. Smiley
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« Reply #18 on: August 16, 2005, 01:26:26 PM »


That's strange. Never would have expected you to say that.

Reason?
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« Reply #19 on: August 16, 2005, 01:45:44 PM »

from the past....

William Jennings Bryan
Alexander Hamilton
Lloyd Bentsen
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« Reply #20 on: August 16, 2005, 01:58:44 PM »

RFK in conjunction with my earlier post.
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« Reply #21 on: August 16, 2005, 01:58:48 PM »


He was quite liberal for his time, and I've always pictured you as a Southerner; he was an Irish Catholic New Yorker.  

But I see since you said he was anti-New Deal that had he been elected, FDR would have never been president.  So I see your reason.
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« Reply #22 on: August 16, 2005, 02:00:43 PM »

from the past....

William Jennings Bryan
Alexander Hamilton
Lloyd Bentsen

Had Bryan been elected, and in which year (since he ran three times)what would have turned out different?  We probably would not have gone to war had he won in 1896, but as for the rest I don't know.
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« Reply #23 on: August 16, 2005, 02:02:58 PM »

from the past....

William Jennings Bryan
Alexander Hamilton
Lloyd Bentsen

Had Bryan been elected, and in which year (since he ran three times)what would have turned out different?  We probably would not have gone to war had he won in 1896, but as for the rest I don't know.

Bryan would have settled the question of evolution in America long before we would have had to put up with this mess.
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« Reply #24 on: August 16, 2005, 02:15:53 PM »

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