What if Mario Cuomo ran for President in 1992?

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Yeah, Cuomo would be the establishment's Stop Clinton pick in the same way Biden was the future Clintonite establishment's Stop Sanders candidate. The consensus on this forum seems to be that Cuomo wins but doesn't expand the map as much.


President George Bush (R-TX) / Vice President Dan Quayle (R-IN)
Governor Mario Cuomo (D-NY) / Senator Al Gore (D-TN) ✓
Businessman Ross Perot (I-TX) / Fmr. Admiral James Stockdale (I-IL)

Flip Tennessee to Bush as I don't see a northern Democrat winning any southern state. 50/50 chance Cuomo wins New Hampshire and ME 2nd. Cuomo wins on the economy and Bush not knowing where he wanted to go in a 2nd term. Cuomo wins handily in 1996 and without scandal his VP likely rides the dotcom boom to victory in 2000.

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Tennessee

Governor Mario Cuomo (D-NY) / Senator Al Gore (D-TN) ✓

Considering Gore himself couldn't win it in 2000, I doubt Cuomo would win it even with Gore on the ticket and one has to wonder how many moderate/center right real life Clinton voters in Tennessee would've voted for Perot or even Bush in the event that Cuomo was at the top of the ticket instead of moderate, southern Clinton.