If Sarah Palin has hopes of holding the White House in four years, according to our poll, she’ll have to run from the Governor’s mansion.
It would not be intelligent for Governor Palin to seek a Senate seat to further her chances of beating a sitting president in 2012. It would also be an unnecessary strain on her family.
- It's kinda hard to "hold the White House" when Obama is the incumbent.
- Contrary to popular opinion, the Senate is not a great place to run for president from. I admit that it is a pretty good place from which to run for the presidential nomination of a party - but Warren G. Harding is the only example of a senator without executive experience defeating a governor in the general election.
Senator Kennedy beat VP Nixon, but VP is political heir of the president but in no sense an executive position; one of them had to win. When Nixon beat VP Humphrey, one of them had to win, and when Senator Obama beat Senator McCain one of them had to win.
Not really! Everyone knows that the 1960 election was stolen for Kennedy by Richard J. Daley and Lyndon Johnson.