[Poohbah]

No my point is that he shouldn't have been allowed to run for office outside of the state he was born in. With his views, I don't think he would have got very far in a run for governor of Georgia.

A quick check of the map shows that Georgia was one of his electoral strongholds, as was Virginia.

Your argument doesn't hold up.

[billbears]

For President yes. If he would have run for governor in GA, no it wouldn't have worked. But wouldn't you, if you were wanting to gain votes in a particular area of the country build up the fact that you were a native of that region? I imagine many of the folks that did vote for him down here, did so in the hopes of putting a Southerner into the seat once held by the northern tyrant not fully knowing his political views