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?
If I remember right, Mondale only won ONE state. His own. Anybody else remember?
Sorry about the double reply
Isn’t Ron Paul from LoopyLand?
Not sure if he won that vote.
Happens.
You are correct........he only won Minnisota. Lost all the others in a landslide for Reagan.
-and he lost when he filled in for Wellstone.....go figure.
Luckily for Hillary, she gets a pass to change her home town whenever she wishes.
I cannot understand what has happened to this country in the last 20 years. Can anyone imagine that there will ever be a Republican candidate again like Reagan 1984, or even Nixon 1972?
99.99% of the reason: MSM
Maybe so, but she lived most of her adult life in Arkansas. If she wins the nomination she'll get STOMPED by the people who know her best. And NY and IL will go to the Democrat candidate anyway unless Giuliani (sp?) somehow wins the GOP. (I'm not a Rudy supporter but I'd rather have him than Mrs. Clinton.)
I believe he did win Georgetown.
But he had lived in New Jersey for years prior to the election. President of Princeton. Governor of the state.
I'll go out on a limb by saying, "probably not".
I'm beginning to believe that time is growing short for conservatives in America. Not that they won't continue to BE here. But changing demographics in the ethnic makeup of the nation - and the fact that different ethnic groups seem all-but locked into predictable political channels - means that conservatives will suffer a slowly but steadily diminishing voice in American politics in the years to come. Yes, we will still have a voice - but as the years pass, it will become less and less influential.
Look at the numbers you posted for Mondale in the District of Columbia for 1984: 85%-14%. If you could break that down in terms of ethnicity, who voted for whom?
There is an old saying, about how demographics becomes destiny. I will go further and state that here in American, changing demographics begets political destiny.
Since we have done nothing to control those demographics, we WILL end up with "the destiny".
It is almost like the tsunami that can begin hundreds of miles away as the result of an earthquake. After the generational event, you hardly see the great wave passing across the open ocean, until it looms down upon you on the beach.
For America, that "earthquake" was the immigration reform act of 1965. Prior to that time, immigration was permitted, but the ethnicity of those permitted to immigrate was tightly controlled. Those who "looked like Americans" (i.e., mostly of European ancestry) were permitted in, while those who did not were largely kept out.
Was this "discriminatory"? Why, YES, it was. Of course, and for good reason, for it ensured that the fundamental demographic makeup of the American people would be maintained.
That ended in 1965. And somewhere along the way after that, we lost the will to even control the borders.
What we have now is a demographic INVASION (shouting intentional), which will eventually become a tidal wave that engulfs and fundamentally and irreversibly changes our demographics. And as they change, so changes everything that the new demographic will embrace. And we know which political party they will be embracing.
Those who keep touting that "Republicans and conservatives will win the Hispanic vote!"... well, they are fools, plain and simple.
You ask, "I cannot understand what has happened to this country in the last 20 years."
To which I reply, "look at the faces around you."
There is "what happened".
I wish these things weren't so, and I hope I'm wrong about them. But as I look around MY neighborhood, those changes are undeniable, and they are forever.
- John
Sure, but among other things, this thread has been discussing whether HRH HRC would carry the town in Illinois where she grew up -- whereas her "home state" is now New York.
(Turnabout is fair play!)
Romney won’t.
Well duh! Who was the last Republican candidate to take Massachusetts?
Gore carried Smith County in TN where Carthage is located (even though his claiming residency there was a joke).
Reagan, 1984. But GHW Bush did quite well in ‘88 there.
Yes and no.
He was born in Washington, DC and he did not carry his home state TN
Yes and no.
He was born in Washington, DC and he did not carry his home state TN
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