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Senate’s Long Losing Streak on Presidency Could Be Near an End
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Feb 07, 2008 04:50am |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Thursday, February 7, 2008 10:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | New York Times article.
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"After more than 50 failures and almost 50 years, the United States Senate is finally poised to again produce a president.
With the Democratic race for the nomination reduced to a two-senator battle between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, and Senator John McCain tightening his grip on the Republican nod, it is becoming more likely that a member of the current Senate will do something no other senator has done since 1961: move straight from Congress to the White House.
Of course, it is taking the prospect of the first-ever White House race between two sitting senators to guarantee that outcome. Given the Senate’s record as a political ball-and-chain for presidential contenders of both parties, perhaps the only route from the Senate to the executive mansion is over another senator.
“It sort of seems the only way it was going to happen is when you have two senators running,” said Richard A. Baker, the Senate historian.
The sheer scope of the futility is impressive.
Since 1960, at least 46 senators have entered the battle for the White House, some multiple times, including losing trifectas by Republican Bob Dole and Democrat Hubert H. Humphrey. Al Gore is credited — or debited as the case may be — with just one failure, in 1988, as a senator since his 2000 loss came as vice president.
Until now, just Mr. Dole and four others — the Republican Barry Goldwater and the Democrats George McGovern, John Kerry and John F. Kennedy — won their party’s nominations and only Kennedy triumphed. In his case, he defeated a former senator, Richard M. Nixon, vice president at the time."
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