” (yes, New Jersey)”
NJ was of course was very close in 1992, had just elected a GOP state leg, and at the time hadn’t voted rat since 1964 and was a viewed as a must win for the GOP, only beginning in 1996 did it begin it’s abyss of not being competitive in Presidential elections (with W Bush’s 2004 performance the only respectable finish). In fact, hmm last GOP before W to win without New Jersey was Benjamin Harrison I think. That’s 112 years.
A shame, CNN exit poll showed Trump with 54% of NJ whites (no more capitalization!).
I saw on old “McLaughlin Group” on you tube with Fred Barnes saying Clinton should pick Bradley as his running mate. Of the bums they mentioned (Gore not among them), he was the only one that made sense to me.
“Had Bush won reelection in 1992, two things would be likely: The GOP would not pick up the House and Senate in 1994,”
Certainly not. So....not until the midterm of the next rat President? Now I’m thinking of who the 96 race would have been between, I don’t know if Dan Q could have done it, probably Dole vs...... a reelected Cuomo? Moonbeam Brown?
Almost certainly would’ve been Quayle had he been reelected as VP in 1992. Quayle probably would’ve picked Dole as an “elder statesman” to balance the ticket.
Depending on how close ‘92 was, had Bubba the Rapist lost, it’s almost a given he’d have run again, but would’ve been urged to pick someone else for VP (hence Moonbeam or Saint Mario).
Had Bush, Sr. been reelected, ‘94 could’ve been the total reverse. A frightening array of scum and villainy could’ve won countless seats in Congress and the Governorships. My Senator Sasser would’ve assumed the role of Majority Leader and Foley would’ve continued as Speaker. Sickening thought. With an open Governorship, Manbearpig might’ve run and won and used it as an alternative stepping-stool to the Presidency for 1996 or 2000.
True, before George W. Bush’s election in 2000, the last Republican to have been elected president without carrying NJ was Benjamin Harrison in 1888. But before 2000, no Republican had ever been elected president without carrying IL. (BTW, save for the 1948 election in which Dewey carried NJ but had IL stolen by Truman—a taste of what would happen in 1960, when Kennedy stole both IL and NJ from Nixon—NJ and IL have voted the same way in every presidential election starting with Grover Cleveland in 1892; that’s 31 of the last 32 elections, and counting!) The reason why I wrote “(yes, New Jersey)” was not because it would have been shocking in 1992 for Bush to have carried the state, but because it seems strange to a reader today to comprehend how a mere 28 years ago a one-on-one race between Bush and Clinton could have resulted in Bush carrying NJ and maybe also CT but Clinton carrying MO, TN and LA.