unfortunately, as I posted the day after the election, there has only been one person who lost in the election for Vice President only to be elected President in the last century, that was FDR.
>>> unfortunately, as I posted the day after the election, there has only been one person who lost in the election for Vice President only to be elected President in the last century, that was FDR. <<<<
That’s interesting.
And unconvincing, even to this Palin sceptic.
Sounds like the kind of factoid a Beltway talking head would be touting.
Right.
And FDR did not run against the President he had lost to just 4 years earlier.
FDR’s election was no rematch. Just as Nixon’s second run wasn’t a rematch either. Both Nixon and FDR waited at least 8 years and for a totally different ticket to run against.
But Dewey, Stevenson, and Mondale all ran in rematches of one form or another, and all lost. And by bigger margins the second time around.
Running one of your losing candidates against the ticket they already lost to 4 years ago amounts to political surrender for a party.