Can you name the US major-party* presidential candidates who lost the state they represented? by smreidy113

Can you name the US major-party* presidential candidates who lost the state they represented?

created by smreidy113

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State	Candidate	Year
New York		1840
Tennessee		1844
New Jersey		1852
California		1856
Illinois		1860
New York		1872
Pennsylvania		1880
New York		1888

State	Candidate	Year
Indiana		1892
Nebraska		1900
New York		1904
New York		1912
Ohio		1912
New Jersey		1916
Ohio		1920
New York		1924

State	Candidate	Year
New York		1928
Kansas		1936
New York		1944
Illinois		1952, 1956
New York		1968
South Dakota		1972
Tennessee		2000

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Candidates who Lost their State Quiz

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Created Feb 22, 2011 in History
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	smreidy113:	Feb 22nd, 2011 at 23:22 GMT		2 points
	Definition of major party (as used by Wikipedia): "Major party: a political party having electoral strength sufficient to permit it to win control of a government usually with comparative regularity and when defeated to constitute the principal opposition to the party in power." -Mariam Webster Dictionary Think I should allow the third column to be shown? Post a comment!

	hscer:	Feb 23rd, 2011 at 01:12 GMT		3 points
	I think Cleveland and Gore are the two on the list who would have won their election had they just taken their home state. There may be more, but those are the two I remember. A typically good quiz btw. I like it without the years at the beginning, since they're in chronological order; get a couple and it's as good as having the years.

	Hejman:	Feb 23rd, 2011 at 01:33 GMT		3 points
	I would agree with keeping the third column hidden. If you show it, then it's just a 'name the candidates from this year' quiz. Greeley is an interesting one, since, technically, he lost every state as he was disqualified from any electoral votes on account of the fact that he died between the election and the meeting of the electoral college.

	ACL:	Feb 23rd, 2011 at 15:01 GMT		8 points
	Good quiz, and definitely keep the third column hidden. I might even go farther and randomize it - as Hejman said, once you've got a few years it makes it easier to fill in the rest. Also, this is bordering on a nitpick, but Richard Nixon can't really have been said to represent New York in any meaningful way. He lived and worked there after 1962, but never held any elected office or official position there. California is really a more appropriate pick for him He was born and grew up there, represented CA as a Congressman and Senator, and unsuccessfully ran for Governor in 1962.

	clay1850:	Sep 18th, 2012 at 20:14 GMT		3 points
	I agree with ACL, on Nixon and I would add John W Davis is that same category.Davis, like Nixon, did work in new york as a lawyer. however he serviced in the US House from West Virgina.

	crashintoavan:	Dec 18th, 2012 at 01:31 GMT		18 points
	Time to add Romney

	davebesag:	Dec 18th, 2012 at 21:38 GMT		8 points
	@ACL: Don't think you're nitpicking at all. Nixon never represented New York in any way. The problem is that the quiz mixes up lived and represented.

	LisaSimpsonOH:	Dec 20th, 2012 at 18:35 GMT		1 point
	Neither Nixon nor Davis ever represented New York, and you left off John Breckinridge, who lost his home state of Kentucky (which he represented in the house before becoming vice president under Buchanan) and finished second to Lincoln in electoral votes.

	johnlk:	Dec 21st, 2012 at 18:09 GMT		1 point
	In 1968, your ballot for president would have said "Richard Nixon of New York / Spiro Agnew of Maryland." That's the sense in which Nixon "represented" New York.

	johnlk:	Dec 21st, 2012 at 18:12 GMT		1 point
	Where's Herbert Hoover (1932)?

	shakescene:	Dec 22nd, 2012 at 03:55 GMT		1 point
	Millard Fillmore of New York, nominated by both the Whig and the American Parties in 1856, would be a borderline case; he came in third, but so did Taft in 1912, while Stephen Douglas was fourth in Electoral votes in 1860, with no hope of carrying the Electoral College. In 1856, the Whigs, divided between North and South, were on a decline, but still a plausible major party: in fact the only opposition to the Democrats in the South.

	shakescene:	Dec 22nd, 2012 at 04:00 GMT		1 point
	Oh yes, keep the answers in chronological order without giving the years, as I did in this quiz: http://www.sporcle.com/games/shakescene/together_again ; your quiz is hard enough as it is even for those who do know some history, but the actual year would be too much help.

	Lovenkrands:	Dec 28th, 2012 at 07:55 GMT		1 point
	Given that this quiz is on a main page, the omission of Romney is curious.

	LisaSimpsonOH:	Jan 3rd, 2013 at 00:08 GMT		1 point
	If the question had been phrased as "home state," then New York would work for Nixon, as it was considered his home state when he ran for president. But he never represented New York in any government body. Davis is still wrong, as he was from West Virginia.

	shakescene:	Jan 11th, 2013 at 05:06 GMT		1 point
	If you're going on the basis of the candidate's residence at the time of the election (e.g. NY for Nixon and John W. Davis), perhaps you could indicate that in the starting note. I've looked at home states myself, and know how tricky this could be, with Mitt Romney and the Bushes being particularly difficult.

	Ubbiebubbie:	Jan 21st, 2013 at 16:24 GMT		1 point
	They were betrayed!