If Mike Gravel had won the Democratic nomination in 2008, would he have beaten John McCain?

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[fried eggs]

1. Did someone say he would have?

And no, I don't think he would have beaten McCain (unless Palin was on the ticket). I also think that would have been the lowest turnout election of all time.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. Gravelanche!

I did like his commercial, heh.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

3. I'm just glad Huntsman didn't win the Repub nomination.

I could see 'the center' peeling apart and him actually having gotten crossover Dem votes.

The primaries do sometimes seriously change what might happen in the generals.

[gwheezie]

4. I really wanted to vote for him

But he didn't make it to my primary

[MohRokTah]

5. gravel2008.us

[LuvNewcastle]

6. It's hard to say. Old man vs. old man.

Gravel had a kind of cult appeal about him, so he might have gotten the votes of people who don't normally vote. McCain had the POW thing going for him, though, so a certain amount of the population would have voted for him regardless. I think that most people were fed up with Republicans at that point, so the Democrats could have run just about anyone and he would have had a chance. After all, they ran a black man whose middle name was "Hussein," and he still won in a landslide.