"Dean self destructed." Come on you know or should know that the decision was made by the liberal media at a meeting in NYC to bring Howie Zowie to earth.
"Carter WAS unknown in the NW." Not true he was Beloved by the NY Times LONG before he announced. "Maybe if you lived in the South you may heave known him." I lived in Chicago and remember his early efforts in Iowa and elsewhere. Carter was widely touted as symbolic of the "New" South. Because you were unaware doesn't mean everyone else was. "Ditto slick willie." Willie was widely known as an anti-war activist who won election. He was also widely known as a poon hound by the 80s.
Both dwarfed Hunter's name recognition.
You're really stretching here.