Political quiz for US voters

[womzilla]

Can 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 to 1960 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."

Comments

Re: One More!

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In 1960, Harry Byrd as the *presidential* choice of 14 unpledged electors from South Carolina electors. They voted for Strom for VP. (One Georgia elector also voted for Harry Byrd, and voted for Goldwater for VP.)

You're right that I missed the Progressive/American Labor party in 1948. I've added it to the list. Thanks!