Could Vermont's Progressive Party win a U.S. Senate Seat?

[ClimateDem]

Could the party gain enough strength to manage to gain Bernie Sander's or Pat Leahey's seat when either retires?

[SATW]

I hope they win Leahy's seat because it'd be funny for Leahy to be the only Dem senator in VT history even after he leaves XD

[The Arizonan]

I hope they win Leahy's seat because it'd be funny for Leahy to be the only Dem senator in VT history even after he leaves XD

Why has Pat Leahy been the only Democratic senator in Vermont's history? It's weird because even Kansas has elected more than one Democrat to the United States Senate.

[smoltchanov]

I hope they win Leahy's seat because it'd be funny for Leahy to be the only Dem senator in VT history even after he leaves XD

Why has Pat Leahy been the only Democratic senator in Vermont's history? It's weird because even Kansas has elected more than one Democrat to the United States Senate.

Because in Pre-Watergate time Vermont was, generally, very Republican. Frequently it's officeholders were a very moderate Republicans, but still - mainly Republicans. And the second Senate seat from Vermont was occupied by Stafford (moderate Republican), Jeffords (moderate-to-liberal Republican, later Indie) and Sanders since early 70th..

[The Arizonan]

I hope they win Leahy's seat because it'd be funny for Leahy to be the only Dem senator in VT history even after he leaves XD

Why has Pat Leahy been the only Democratic senator in Vermont's history? It's weird because even Kansas has elected more than one Democrat to the United States Senate.

Because in Pre-Watergate time Vermont was, generally, very Republican. Frequently it's officeholders were a very moderate Republicans, but still - mainly Republicans. And the second Senate seat from Vermont was occupied by Stafford (moderate Republican), Jeffords (moderate-to-liberal Republican, later Indie) and Sanders since early 70th..

And how come Vermont has never elected a Democratic senator even during the FDR years? That's one hell of a Whig/Republican streak.

[Nyvin]

I hope they win Leahy's seat because it'd be funny for Leahy to be the only Dem senator in VT history even after he leaves XD

Why has Pat Leahy been the only Democratic senator in Vermont's history? It's weird because even Kansas has elected more than one Democrat to the United States Senate.

Because in Pre-Watergate time Vermont was, generally, very Republican. Frequently it's officeholders were a very moderate Republicans, but still - mainly Republicans. And the second Senate seat from Vermont was occupied by Stafford (moderate Republican), Jeffords (moderate-to-liberal Republican, later Indie) and Sanders since early 70th..

And how come Vermont has never elected a Democratic senator even during the FDR years? That's one hell of a Whig/Republican streak.

Vermont, along with Maine, was one of two states in the country FDR never won in any of his four elections, Truman didn't win it either in 1948.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I think some people forget just how strongly the WASPs loved the Republicans. Now most have flipped Dem in Vermont.

Indeed, the most Republican counties in the nation were often in a band of English majority counties stretching from central Maine down to central New York, across to rural Michigan (largely settled by WASP New Englanders). This was also the source of the greatest GOP support for Prohibition and also likely Nativism as well.

[Mr. Illini]

They could do it the same way that the independent currently does it - the Dems don't nominate anyone and the challenger to the Republican is a Progressive Party candidate.

A Progressive Party candidate could not win against both a Republican and Democrat, yet would garner a large portion of the vote and probably result in a R-VT senator, which would be toxic to see.