[hunter112]

Hadn't thought about that, often the vice presidential candidate on a losing ticket becomes the early front runner four years later. That happened with Edmund Muskie, Walter Mondale, Joe Lieberman, and if you'll allow the lapse of time, Bob Dole.

That's why its imperative for Dean to get the nomination. I hereby withdraw my support of Al Sharpton in all polls that I freep!

[SAJ]

Equivalently, the losing VEEP candidate was not **nominated** next time in the case of Stevenson/Kefauver, Nixon/Lodge, Goldwater/Miller, Humphrey/whoeveritwas, McGovern/Shriver, Ford/Dole, Mondale/Ferraro, Dukakis/whoever, Bush/Quayle, and Dole/Kemp.

In short, there is no positive correlation here whatever, but instead a highly negative one, and ''front-runner'' is a term that's only important to the weasels in the lamestream commentariat. Gee, that's 10 of the past 11 Presidential elections, actually 11 of the past 12, because Stevenson's running mate in 1952 (that guy from Alabama)wasn't nominated in 1956, either. Only terminally Mondull managed to go from losing VEEP candidate to (thankfully) losing Prez candidate...at least w/in the past 50 yrs.