Political quiz for US voters
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womzillaCan you name all of the losing major-ticket Vice Presidential candidates in the elections since you were born? How about since you reached voting age? (By "major ticket", I mean "received at least 2% of the national vote". By that standard, there have been major third- or non-party candidates in five vice-presidential elections since 1968.)
Answers back to1960 1948 below the cut, including the parties of the candidates during the elections:
2008: Sarah Palin (R) lost to Joe Biden (D), and you can't imagine the pleasure it gives me to type that
2004: John Edwards (D) lost to Dick Cheney (R)
2000: Dick Cheney (R) and Winona LaDuke (Green) lost* to Joe Lieberman (D)
1996: Jack Kemp (R) and Pat Choate (Reform) lost to Al Gore, Jr. (D)
1992: Dan Quayle (R) and Adm. James Stockdale (Reform) lost to Al Gore, Jr. (D)
1988: Lloyd Bentsen (D) lost to Dan Quayle (R)
1984: Geraldine Ferraro (D) lost to George H. W. Bush (R)
1980: Walter Mondale (D) and Patrick Lucey (I) lost to George H. W. Bush (R)
1976: Bob Dole (R) lost to Walter Mondale (D)
1972: Sargent Shriver (D) lost to Spiro Agnew (R)
1968: Edmund Muskie (D) and Curtis LeMay (American Independent) lost to Spiro Agnew (R)
1964: William Miller (R) lost to Hubert Humphrey (D)
1960: Henry Cabot Lodge (R) lost to Lyndon Johnson (D); Strom Thurmond (I) received 14 electoral votes but no significant portion of the national popular vote
1956: Estes Kefauver (D) lost to Richard Nixon (R)
1952: John Sparkman (D) lost to Richard Nixon (R)
1948: Earl Warren (R), Fielding Wright (Dixiecrat), and Glen Taylor (Progressive/American Labor) lost to Alben Barkley (D)
*If you have to ask about this, you haven't been paying attention.
[List extended to 1952 because of baron_dave's comment below about Stephenson's running mates. Then I found myself wondering, "Who was Strom Thurmond's Dixiecrat running mate?" and I realized that I had no idea who the other VP candidates were in 1948 either. Earl Warren, huh. I also had no idea that there was a Progressive ticket in 1948 that got 2.4% of the popular vote.]
My first presidential election was 1984. It took me a long time to remember Kemp, and I couldn't remember Bentsen (which I misspelled in the list), LaDuke, or Choate without looking them up. On the other hand, I still remember a "Winthrop" comic from 1976: "Are you supporting Carter/Mondale or Ford/Dole?" "Ford/Dole, because it's easier to spell."
Answers back to
2008: Sarah Palin (R) lost to Joe Biden (D), and you can't imagine the pleasure it gives me to type that
2004: John Edwards (D) lost to Dick Cheney (R)
2000: Dick Cheney (R) and Winona LaDuke (Green) lost* to Joe Lieberman (D)
1996: Jack Kemp (R) and Pat Choate (Reform) lost to Al Gore, Jr. (D)
1992: Dan Quayle (R) and Adm. James Stockdale (Reform) lost to Al Gore, Jr. (D)
1988: Lloyd Bentsen (D) lost to Dan Quayle (R)
1984: Geraldine Ferraro (D) lost to George H. W. Bush (R)
1980: Walter Mondale (D) and Patrick Lucey (I) lost to George H. W. Bush (R)
1976: Bob Dole (R) lost to Walter Mondale (D)
1972: Sargent Shriver (D) lost to Spiro Agnew (R)
1968: Edmund Muskie (D) and Curtis LeMay (American Independent) lost to Spiro Agnew (R)
1964: William Miller (R) lost to Hubert Humphrey (D)
1960: Henry Cabot Lodge (R) lost to Lyndon Johnson (D); Strom Thurmond (I) received 14 electoral votes but no significant portion of the national popular vote
1956: Estes Kefauver (D) lost to Richard Nixon (R)
1952: John Sparkman (D) lost to Richard Nixon (R)
1948: Earl Warren (R), Fielding Wright (Dixiecrat), and Glen Taylor (Progressive/American Labor) lost to Alben Barkley (D)
*If you have to ask about this, you haven't been paying attention.
[List extended to 1952 because of baron_dave's comment below about Stephenson's running mates. Then I found myself wondering, "Who was Strom Thurmond's Dixiecrat running mate?" and I realized that I had no idea who the other VP candidates were in 1948 either. Earl Warren, huh. I also had no idea that there was a Progressive ticket in 1948 that got 2.4% of the popular vote.]
My first presidential election was 1984. It took me a long time to remember Kemp, and I couldn't remember Bentsen (which I misspelled in the list), LaDuke, or Choate without looking them up. On the other hand, I still remember a "Winthrop" comic from 1976: "Are you supporting Carter/Mondale or Ford/Dole?" "Ford/Dole, because it's easier to spell."
