To: goodnesswins
Yeah, guess that would be a sitting Senator winning the White House, so that takes care of the more extreme of my examples.
But how about a sitting Senator sans executive branch experience winning?
And while you are right with Kennedy, that was one wicked close election, which Kennedy may not really have won, if not for some help from the Daleys...
To: William McKinley
Kennedy didn't need Illinois to win actually.
1,839 posted on
01/19/2004 7:15:32 PM PST by
Torie
To: William McKinley
YES....Nixon didn't pull a Gore on him....Nixon could have made things really messy that year, from what I've heard.
1,840 posted on
01/19/2004 7:15:44 PM PST by
goodnesswins
(Poverty is more about the "mental" than the "money.")
To: Mo1
Yep, I forgot that one. See 1825.
To: William McKinley; goodnesswins
You can't count JFK, if your question was if a President has ever lost to a sitting Senator. Eisenhower wasn't running in 1960.
1,850 posted on
01/19/2004 7:17:10 PM PST by
wimpycat
("Black holes are where God divided by zero.")
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