If No Republican Has Ever Been Elected President Without Winning OHIO...

[arwalden]

... is there a corollary for Democratic presidential candidates?

-- Allen

[Confident]

1. Missouri

[troublemaker]

2. Maryland?

[Confident]

3. Nope - Dukakis got MD in 1988 and still lost

[The Magistrate]

4. An Odd Little Note On Ohio And Missouri, My Friend

Civil War history remains very useful in following our current political developments, and both these states occupied odd positions in that conflict.

Missouri was a slave state, and sought abscond from the Union without quite joining the Confederacy. It was held to the Union by some of the earliest heavy fighting in the war, in which, broadly speaking, the secessionist "native" population in the north of the state was overpowered by loyalist immigrants, mostly Germans, and many openly Socialist revolutionaries, in the south of the state. It remained a theater of bitter guerrilla war throughout the war, but after the initial period the Union grip was never seriously threatened.

Ohio was a free state, but the greatest center of "Copperhead" collaborationist sentiment with the Confederacy among the free states. Its elected Governor, Vallandingham, openly called for accepting the secession of the slave states, and agitated for Union soldiers to desert and bring the war to an end. Ohio was placed under martial law, and Vallandingham himself escorted by soldiers over to the Confederate lines.

"The past is not dead; it is not even past."

"LET'S GO GET THOSE BUSH BASTARDS!"

[elperromagico]

5. The Democratic Party's been around longer,

so there might not be such a correlation. But I'll try to find one. :P

[DrFunkenstein]

6. Tennessee?

I think the only exception was Kennedy. But I might be wrong.