But he served as a US congressman from Texas. Where someone is born or> where they spent their childhood(or where their dad served as US> senator in this case) is not the way they are classified in this> regard.>

Usually the state in which someone is elected to higher office from is> where you would list their home state for these kind of discussions.

ummm...I'm thinking that his Veep had less to do with him winning it> than the fact that it is traditionally one of the two or three most> liberal states in the union. next.

the democrat VP carried a democratic state and the republican VP> candidate's home state was ........Kansas!!! Next.

Again you've got minnesota, which was more democratic then than today,> and I'm guessing you mean Reagan's VP won his home state which> was.......Texas!! Next.

Geraldine Ferraro is also from one of the most liberal states in the> union. Next.

oh so now we are beginning to see the trend. If a state is solidly> republican(Tx) or solidly democrat(Mass), then the VP won't matter.> Interestingly enough, Benson was actually considered a very strong VP> candidate.>

And Quayle was from a very conservative state(Ind). So of course he> wins it.>

And in this case Gore/Clinton edging out some southern states had much> more to do with Clinton, also from a southern state. Case in point-> Clinton also edged out Georgia that year, which is slightly more> conservative, typically by 3 points or so, than Tennessee. So it makes> sense that if Clinton wins Ga he also pulls off Tennessee, regardless> of Gore.

This is the second time you've made an obvious error in even> identifying who the pres. nominee was. I assumed the first was just a> typo, but now I'm beginning to wonder if I'm having a political science> discussion with someone who doesn't even know how the presidential> nominees were 9 years ago.

But you're right that it was no surprise.>

Ct(liberal) and Wyoming(extremely conservative). Duh...veeps had> nothing to do with it.>

I'm glad you see the trend now(hell you even stated it yourself). You> didn't give a single example where a VP shifted a state from one column> to the other. And you managed to incorrectly identify who the nominee> was twice.

George H.W. Bush is from Connecticut.

mianderson@student­s.mcg.edu wrote in news:1113004317.369­328.26700>@g14g2000c­wa.googlegroups.com:­>

He's a fake, through and through, my lad. His dad was a U.S. Senator from >Connecticut, he went to school at friggin' Yale, and when he retired, he >retired to Maine.

He ain't Texas. He's just a Texas wanna-be.