On 2nd September 1998, a fire broke out aboard SwissAir flight 111 flying at 33,000 ft over the Atlantic Ocean en route from New York to Geneva, resulting in a crash. Of the 229 people on board, none survived.

Note it only includes VP picks that have served in either the House or Senate (i.e have a voting record)

Note that the scoring sort of breaks down the earlier you go, being a liberal in the 1920s is not the same as being a liberal today. Take it more like how much they backed the party line during their time in Congress

Also, it only takes into account voting records and doesn't factor in other stuff like who supported the candidate (i.e Garner, the most liberal VP pick was backed by the conservative wing). Doesn't take into account what they said before entering Congress etc, only counts their votes. Take it more as who was backing the party line the most.

Methodology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOMINATE_(scaling_method)

I do admit "President-Elect John F. Kerry" has a nice ring to it... he looks the part too

6 meals a day, I’d imagine reporters were fighting to get on Romney’s press corps just for that

Sadly Clinton’s supporters in his 1996 victory speech
forgot to chant this out

We saw Kerry a few weeks ago, now we have Edwards. I should point out for the avoidance of doubt, that the document its degraded, and that it says he likes "hot meals" not "ho meals".

https://www.thesmokinggun.com/backstage/politicians/john-edwards

Didn’t look that split to me…

Small typo for 1876 its meant to say they endorsed Hayes not Grant.

The New York Times has endorsed a candidate for president of the United States in every election since Abraham Lincoln in 1860.

In total, it has endorsed 29 Democrats and 12 Republicans.

24 of their 38 candidates (63%) have won their election.

Imo the best ones: Eisenhower ‘52, all of Nixon’s ones, Ford ‘76, Reagan ‘80, Dole ‘96, Bush 2000 and Obama 2008

The worst ones:

1. McCain 2008: close to no excitement and people are falling asleep
2. Al Gore 2000: sounds like a robot especially compared to Bush. Again people are falling asleep
3. All of the Adlai Stevenson ones

First 2 images are for John Kerry's needs, the 3rd and 4th were for his wife.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna12036619

https://www.thesmokinggun.com/backstage/politicians/john-kerry

Interesting find.

Historically, the GOP really likes to nominate the runner-up from the last open primary election cycle to be their presidential nominee, whereas the democrats don't really observe this trend and are in general much more picky with their candidates. Especially in 1996 Dole was picked in part because 'it was his turn'.

Is there something that explains this?

Interesting looking at how the quality of the broadcast has improved, most notably in 2004.