In the TV age, we have seen a whole host of different Presidential candidates from all over the United States. If you include both primary and general election from the major parties, no one could complain that we haven’t seen candidates from across the spectrum cross our paths as we picked leaders for this country.
It’s worth remembering that America has had choices from conservative to liberal, young and old, north and south, east and west, tall and short, male and female. Along the way, many other forgotten candidates from Stuart Symington in 1960 to Scoop Jackson in 1972 and 1976 to Pete DuPont in 1988 to Miker Gravel in 2008 have all made bids as well. We should be proud of these choices.
No one can say there were no choices. The key for America is for the voters to make the best and most informed choice with their most precious asset in this Democracy: the right to vote.
A partial list of the leading candidates new to presidential scene includes:
1960: D – John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson; R – Richard Nixon
1964: D – George Wallace; R – Barry Goldwater, Nelson Rockefeller
1968: D – Bobby Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, Hubert Humphrey, George McGovern; R – Ronald Reagan
1972: D – Henry Jackson, Shirley Chisholm, Edmund Muskie; R
1976: D – Jimmy Carter, Jerry Brown, R – Gerald Ford
1980: D – Ted Kennedy; R – George H. W. Bush; John B. Anderson
1984: D – Walter Mondale, Gary Hart, Jesse Jackson
1988: D – Michael Dukakis, Al Gore; R – Bob Dole, Pat Robertson
1992: D – Bill Clinton, Paul Tsongas; R- Pat Buchanan; I – Ross Perot
1996: R – Steve Forbes
2000: D – Bill Bradley; R – George W. Bush, John McCain
2004: D – John Kerry, Howard Dean, John Edwards; R -
2008: D – Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama; R – Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul
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