[GlockLady]

In the past, hasn’t the previous VP candidate been considered the ‘front runner’ when subsequently running for Prez?
This puzzles me.
Haven’t researched it, just going on memory.

[freedumb2003]

>>In the past, hasn’t the previous VP candidate been considered the ‘front runner’ when subsequently running for Prez?<<

Not really as a rule. The current VP is usually considered to have the inside track for the nomination when the sitting president runs 8 years.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Often “considered” times, yes, especially since 1960. Although sometimes they run and fizzle out in the primary and on a few occasions, they decline to run...

1960:
JFK (D)-had been considered almost a “de facto” VP candidate in ‘56

Nixon (R)-Sitting VP

1964:
LBJ (D) former VP, then President

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (R), lost in the primary to Goldwater

1968:
Humphrey (D)-Sitting VP

Bill Miller (R), Goldwater’s running mate in ‘64, didn’t run

1972:
Ed Muskie (D), Humphrey’s ‘68 running mate, lost in primary

1976:
Sargent Shriver (D), McGovern’s running mate, lost in primary

1980:
Bob Dole (R), Opted to run for reelection to Senate after failing to register in early primary

1984:
Mondale (D), Carter’s VP

1988:
Geraldine Ferraro (D), Mondale’s running mate, didn’t run

GHW Bush (R), Reagan’s VP

1992:
Lloyd Bentsen (D), Dukakis’s running mate, didn’t run (but got Cabinet app’t)

1996:
Dan Quayle (R), candidacy fizzled out early

2000:
Al Gore (D), Clinton’s VP

Jack Kemp (R), Dole’s ‘96 running mate, opted not to run

2004:
Joe Lieberman (D), Gore’s running mate, candidacy floated but opted out

2008:
John Edwards (D), Kerry’s running mate, lost primary

Dick Cheney (R), opted not to run