Who was the best of recent failed Democratic presidential nominees?

[Blue3]

Who was the best of recent failed Democratic presidential nominees?

These 7 are the only Democratic presidential nominees since World War II who were never President.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Humphrey + McGovern, but I'm also partial to Walter Mondale.

[Vega]

Walter Mondale and Al Gore.

Would have been interesting to see what Mondale would have done in the Senate, if he had won the election in 2002.

[Phony Moderate]

McGovern, obvs.

[Illuminati Blood Drinker]

Humphrey + McGovern, but I'm also partial to Walter Mondale.

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

From an election standpoint, it's objectively Gore for winning the PV and coming within 1 SCOTUS justice 4 EVs of winning.


From our personal views? Still Gore.

[Blue3]

Humphrey was too anti-communist, and even thought of bringing back camps for "subversives."

Stevenson was too moderate on civil rights.

Dukakis was out of touch, and didn't really focus on issues that Americans cared about.

Al Gore's demeanor towards both Bush and Clinton was off-putting, and he was trying to paint himself as a social conservative and picked Joe Lieberman.

John Kerry was an awful candidate, too aristocratic, couldn't really articulate his own vision and seemed a weak leader.



That leaves me with Mondale and McGovern.

[Maxwell]

McGovern is one of a select few actual decent men to be in politics, so him.

[TDAS04]

Humphrey + McGovern, but I'm also partial to Walter Mondale.

[I Will Not Be Wrong]

Hubert Humphrey of course.

[politicus]

[H. Ross Peron]

Hubert Humphrey of course.

[Mr. Illini]

I'm a fan of Kerry and Stevenson.

Unpopular opinion, I know.

[Redalgo]

McGovern for sure, from what little I was able to quickly dig up.

[ElectionsGuy]

McGovern

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

I'm a fan of Kerry and Stevenson.

Unpopular opinion, I know.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

I'm partial to Dukakis, but they all would have been better than the Republican who beat them. I even like McGovern despite his lack of union support.

[politicallefty]

Humphrey. I think him winning in 1968 would have been the most consequential as far as promoting Democratic ideals. That term would have been a huge opportunity to pass a universal healthcare plan. As LBJ's successor, I think it'd hardly be a stretch to see a universal healthcare plan based off of Medicare. (As for SCOTUS, Nixon ended up with four appointments in his first term. Blackmun wasn't that bad, but we could've done much better than Burger, Powell, and Rehnquist. And, in that case, the death penalty almost certainly would not have been reinstated in 1976, if at all. It's very possible that the death penalty would have been ruled categorically unconstitutional.)

[DemPGH]

Any number of them would have been good, but I voted 1) Mondale and I would say 2) Gore. Mondale would have been truly great and is the one I am biased toward. I also vividly remember the '90s, and even though Clinton was everything Gore was not in terms of charisma and so on, there was no reason whatsoever to vote Bush over him.

[Blue3]

Poor Mondale

[Paul Kemp]

What does this question even mean?

[Blue3]

What does this question even mean?

Isn't it self-explanatory?

Out of these 7... the 7 Democratic nominees since WWII who were never President... who was the best? Who would have been the best President out of these 7?

[Pandaguineapig]

Despite strongly disagreeing with McGovern on policy I do strongly admire him

[Antonio the Sixth]

Mondale and McGovern, with HHH very close behind.

[Paul Kemp]

What does this question even mean?

Isn't it self-explanatory?

Out of these 7... the 7 Democratic nominees since WWII who were never President... who was the best? Who would have been the best President out of these 7?

Best by what definition? This means nothing.