[MNJohnnie]

Remember also JFK was running against another former Senator so his election is something of a wash.

However, I will remind you of another former President who served only ONE term in the US Congress and 2 terms as a State Representative before becoming one of the great US Presidents of all time. This despite having NO "executive experience". -

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Abraham Lincoln.

[Morgan in Denver]

I willingly accept the correction. Worse, if I remember right, Lincoln lost a number of elections prior to his nomination for president.

In defense, I was primarily considering presidents since FDR, realizing Hoover was never elected to anything other than the presidency, if I remember right. I was drawing the line with FDR because the nature of the office of the presidency changed numerous times until FDR's unprecedented four elections and the changes resulting after WWII.

[Morgan in Denver]

I'll have to re-look but I thought JFK beat Nixon, who was Eisenhower's VP, as well as a former senator.

[samantha]

Lincoln was born in 1809, there was no 24-7 News Media Cycles then, and they did not have the internet. They did not have the DBM. I rely on what I see in the last couple of decades, but even that was mostly before the 24-7 hateful DBM. You need someone that can appeal to the most people, and sad to say, but freepers are not the majority of the American People. Yet!!!!