Reply #87: not Tsongas, Kerrey [View All]

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or Brown. Congress was just as unpopular as Bush in 1992, and if Tsongas or Brown had won the nomination, Bush would have tried to make it a referendum on Congress on the basis of their votes, and given Kerrey's lack of charisma, Bush could have won. Not to mention that Kerrey and Tsongas would not have been New Democrats or pulled in any new regions and Clinton did that year. None of them could have won a single southern state, making Bush's electoral college job much easier. Clinton's youth helped too and he got out the young vote for him by many points, Kerrey would not have done so.