Had it not been for MS Wellstone would have challenged Clinton in 96

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and for that matter, Casey would have but for his disease. The notion that no one discussed primary challenges to Bill Clinton doesn't even qualify as revisionist history, it is just plain not history. I have no idea if Obama will, or won't have a primary challenge. I don't want to see one. But please either read a history book, or search online before you just post nonsense, like no one talked about a primary challenge to Clinton.

On edit Wellstone had been diagnosed with Multiple sclerosis.

On further edit, I was right about Casey but wrong about Wellstone. He had made noises but didn't start the machinery at all since he was up for Senate reelection. There surely was talk througout 94 and 95 of primary challenges to Clinton though, and it is pure fiction to pretend there were not.

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1. Microsoft? n/m

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2. Multiple Sclerosis?

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3. What does this post mean?

Did Clinton face a primary challenge?

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4. Wellstone was prepared to do so

but he found out he had MS so he couldn't and by that time (late 95) no one else could either. The fact is those who are saying Obama is the only President not being given time are just plain lying to us about history.

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6. Based on what?

Wellstone voted for DOMA. Where is the evidence Wellstone wanted to run in 1996?

Shortly after his re-election to the Senate in 1996, Wellstone began contemplating a run for his party's nomination for President of the United States in 2000.

Wellstone's distinctive campaign bus.As the first stage in his nascent pseudocampaign, he embarked upon a cross-country speaking and listening tour that he dubbed "the Children's Tour" in May 1997. This tour, which took him to rural areas of Mississippi and Appalachia and the inner cities of Minneapolis, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Baltimore, was intended to retrace the steps taken by Senator Robert F. Kennedy during a similar tour in 1966, in order to showcase the fact that conditions had not improved, as well as to test his message.

In 1998, Wellstone began to more openly investigate the possibility of running. He formed an exploratory committee that paid for his travels to Iowa and New Hampshire, homes of the two first contests of the nomination process, to speak before organized labor and local Democrats. (His catchphrase from these speeches, "I represent the democratic wing of the Democratic Party," would later be incorporated into the 2004 stump speech of Governor Howard Dean.) He also met privately with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, allegedly to determine which of them would challenge Vice President Al Gore in 2000.

On January 9, 1999, Wellstone called a press conference in the Minnesota capitol building. Rather than announcing his candidacy, as had been expected, he instead declared that he would not be a candidate. His explanation was that his old wrestling injury (in reality, it would some time later be diagnosed as multiple sclerosis) prevented him from mustering the stamina necessary for a national campaign. Later that year, he would endorse the candidacy of former Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, the only Democrat to run against Gore.

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8. DOMA wasn't the only issue in 96

NAFTA was the big issue then as was welfare reform, both opposed by Wellstone.

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10. Are you going to ignore the points that refute the OP claim

On January 9, 1999, Wellstone called a press conference in the Minnesota capitol building. Rather than announcing his candidacy, as had been expected, he instead declared that he would not be a candidate. His explanation was that his old wrestling injury (in reality, it would some time later be diagnosed as multiple sclerosis) prevented him from mustering the stamina necessary for a national campaign. Later that year, he would endorse the candidacy of former Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, the only Democrat to run against Gore.

Wellstone was busy running for the Senate. It was determined that he had MS in 1999.

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5. Mississippi?

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7. Oh no, someone discovered the truth about a Clinton challenge in '96 n/t

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9. You must mean Multiple Sclerosis. And if he HAD primaried Clinton, Clinton may well

have lost the General Election if he won the primary.