It can be anyboy from that time period, they didnt have to declare
1948: Robert Taft , Probably lose by a hair
1952: Stevenson , OTL result
1956: LBJ , LBJ does better in New England, and South but loses
1960: Mark Hatfield , Does better in debate wins popular vote and wins in a nailbiter
1964: Nelson Rockerfeller , Does better in North East, West, still loses decisivly
1968: Hubert Humprhey , He did better then any democrat should have done
1972: Edward Muskie , Does better everywhere but doesnt lose in landslide
1976: Ronald Reagan, Dees better in South, worse in NE but wins in a nailbiter
1980: Ted Kennedy , does better in NE but loses decisively
1984: Gary Hart , Does better in Midwest but still loses in landslides
1988: Mario Cuomo , Does better in NE and California but loses in nailbiter
1992: Jack Kemp , Loses like George HW Bush but wins Ohio,Georgia, New Jersey
1996: Colin Powell , Makes it really really close but still loses
2000: Dick Gephardt , Takes our Bush in Missouri and Florida and wins
2004: Joe Liberman , Takes bush out in Ohio, and wins the election
2008: John McCain , Gop should not have won more then 150 electoral votes this year
2012: Chris Christe , Beats Obama by a nailbiter
I'm not commenting on all these election years.
But, for the hell of it, I'll cite a few:• 1948: Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisconsin)
• 1964: Barry Goldwater (R-Arizona)
• 1968: George Wallace (D-Alabama)
• 1972: Shirley Chisholm (D-New York)
• 1976: Nelson Rockefeller (R-New York)
• 1980: Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts)
• 1984: Jimmy Carter (D-Georgia)
• 1988: Jesse Jackson (D-Illinois)
• 1992: Pat Buchanan (R-Virginia)
• 1996: George H. W. Bush (R-Texas)
• 2004: Howard Dean (D-Vermont)
• 2008: Dick Cheney (R-Wyoming)
• 2012: Rick Santorum (R-Pennsylvania)
