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« Reply #25 on: September 11, 2012, 12:50:20 PM »
Sanders could have won in '08.
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« Reply #26 on: September 11, 2012, 01:17:14 PM »

Nah.
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« Reply #27 on: September 11, 2012, 02:25:54 PM »
Mario Cuomo in '92.

Mike Huckabee is probably kicking himself for not running this year.
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« Reply #28 on: September 11, 2012, 05:43:05 PM »
Cuomo.
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« Reply #29 on: September 12, 2012, 08:04:44 PM »
Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Quote from: TNF on September 11, 2012, 02:25:54 PM
Mike Huckabee is probably kicking himself for not running this year.

Even if Huckabee managed to win the GOP nomination, he would have faced huge difficulties in the general election.  Imagine how damaged he would have been by the Akin mess, given his appointment of Boozman to be Arkansas's health director years ago.
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« Reply #30 on: September 13, 2012, 08:01:42 AM »
I still think there is a 50/50 chance of Clinton running in 2016.
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« Reply #31 on: September 13, 2012, 08:34:54 PM »
1968- Lyndon Johnson
1976- Ted Kennedy
1988- Ted Kennedy, Mario Cuomo, Gary Hart (w/out scandal), Llyod Bentsen
1992- Mario Cuomo, Llyod Bentsen
1996- Colin Powell
2000- Colin Powell, John Kerry, Howard Dean, Tom Daschle, Max Cleland, Sam Nunn
2004- Al Gore, Bill Nelson, Tom Daschle, Mac Cleland, Sam Nunn, Hillary Clinton
2012- Rudy Giuliani (even I'd consider it), Hillary Clinton, Mike Huckabee, George Pataki, Jeb Bush, Chris Christie
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« Reply #32 on: September 14, 2012, 08:59:51 PM »
I agree that either Mario Cuomo or Lloyd Bentsen likely would have won the Democratic Party's nomination and the presidency in 1992.

Considering how close the 2004 election was, I think Gore would have won against W. And he would have likely prevailed in the primary.

Colin Powell would likely have won in 1996. W was likely too powerful a General Election opponent in 2000.

I think Kennedy would have been too damaged by Chappaquiddick to ever become President.

Either Chris Christie, Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan could have beaten Romney in the 2012 primary, and performed better in the General Election polls.
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« Reply #33 on: October 18, 2012, 01:38:29 AM »
-Gore in 2008
-Hillary Clinton in 2004
-Powell in 1996
-Cuomo in 1992
-Ted Kennedy 1976/1988 (bigtime maybe)
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« Reply #34 on: October 18, 2012, 01:43:25 AM »
Ted Kennedy 1976
Mario Cuomo 1992
Colin Powell 1996, 2000
Al Gore 2004
Hillary Clinton 2004

If they had run for another term
Teddy Roosevelt 1908
Calvin Coolidge 1928
Dwight Eisenhower 1960
Ronald Reagan 1988
Bill Clinton 2000
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« Reply #35 on: October 30, 2012, 04:24:22 AM »
Gore would have won in 2004. 
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« Reply #36 on: October 30, 2012, 10:29:28 AM »
1988 - Mario Cuomo and Howard Baker
1992 - Mario Cuomo
1996 - Colin Powell
2000 - Colin Powell and Christine Todd Whitman
2004 - Al Gore
2008 - Al Gore and Mark Warner
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« Reply #37 on: November 17, 2012, 03:46:50 AM »
General Sherman in 1876, or probably any of 1880, 1884 or 1888
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