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Has a Presidential Candidate ever not won their hometown?
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Posted on 01/12/2008 5:08:12 AM PST by kerrywoodssecretwife
Has any Presidential Candidate ever not won their hometown in either the primary or general election?
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Hillary may win her hometown of Park Ridge, Illinois in the primary but.....
I have lived in Park Ridge my entire life. (We bought my parents house).
If she's the dem nominee she will not win the vote here.
Park Ridge like most towns with hard working people who made themselves what they are and believe in family values is about 75 percent republican.
To: kerrywoodssecretwife
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posted on
01/12/2008 5:11:41 AM PST
by
rhombus
To: kerrywoodssecretwife
Bush’s hometown (by birth) is New Haven CT. I know he’s never won it.
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posted on
01/12/2008 5:14:32 AM PST
by
ChuckShick
(He's clerking for me...)
To: kerrywoodssecretwife
Hometown? Who knows? But I believe the only president who won without carrying his home state was Woodrow Wilson in 1916.
If Clinton wins I can't imagine any way she wouldn't carry New York. Or Illinois, for that matter.
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posted on
01/12/2008 5:14:33 AM PST
by
Non-Sequitur
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To: rhombus
I’m just opening a discussion with the comment about her supposed international popularity and she won’t win her hometown.
To: kerrywoodssecretwife
Gore lost his homestate in the 2000 election...
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posted on
01/12/2008 5:16:33 AM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: kerrywoodssecretwife
Did Algore win his in 2000? He didn’t take his state.
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posted on
01/12/2008 5:17:45 AM PST
by
abishai
To: 2banana
I am thinking that Nixon didn’t carry California in 1960 or 1968.
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posted on
01/12/2008 5:18:43 AM PST
by
barryg
To: kerrywoodssecretwife
I’m just opening a discussion with the comment about her supposed international popularity and she won’t win her hometown. She may not carry Park Ridge but I guarantee you she would take Illinois by a huge margin. That's pretty popular.
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posted on
01/12/2008 5:20:56 AM PST
by
Non-Sequitur
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To: barryg
oops, actually he did carry California in both years. my bad.
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posted on
01/12/2008 5:22:29 AM PST
by
barryg
To: 2banana
Gore couldn’t even win his own voting precinct in 2000. His neighbors knew him and rejected him.
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posted on
01/12/2008 5:24:14 AM PST
by
Flpoop
(play it where it lies)
To: barryg
Nixon carried California in both.
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posted on
01/12/2008 5:25:50 AM PST
by
ReleaseTheHounds
("You ask, 'What is our aim?' I can answer in one word: VICTORY - victory - at all costs...")
To: kerrywoodssecretwife
Algore lost Tennessee in 2000. If he had won his home state, Florida would not have mattered.
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posted on
01/12/2008 5:26:50 AM PST
by
gridlock
(300 Million Americans will not be elected President in 2008. Hillary Clinton will be one of them.)
To: kerrywoodssecretwife
Hmmmm ... my kids hate me ... does that count ?
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posted on
01/12/2008 5:27:01 AM PST
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
To: barryg
Nixon won California in both 1960 and 1968. However, he lost New York, his state of residence at the time, in 1968.
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posted on
01/12/2008 5:27:57 AM PST
by
fzx12345
(ACLU DELENDA EST)
To: kerrywoodssecretwife
I don’t think LBJ ever won the vote of Johnson City, Texas, his hometown. Folks there said they knew him too well.
To: Non-Sequitur
James K Polk lost his home state Tennessee and birth state N.C. and still won as President.
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posted on
01/12/2008 5:32:58 AM PST
by
packrat35
(Politicians would be less worthless if they were edible, or useable for packing wheel bearings.)
To: Non-Sequitur
> I believe the only president who won without carrying his home state was Woodrow Wilson in 1916. <
Wilson was born in Staunton, Virginia. I’m sure he carried that town in 1916. He definitely carred the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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posted on
01/12/2008 6:09:52 AM PST
by
Hawthorn
To: kerrywoodssecretwife
If Al Gore had won Tennessee, he would have been President.
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posted on
01/12/2008 6:14:13 AM PST
by
Phlap
(REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
To: Phlap
If I remember right, Mondale only won ONE state. His own. Anybody else remember?
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posted on
01/12/2008 6:18:07 AM PST
by
jnwest
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