Damn, why wasn't Mario Cuomo ever president? nt

[dflprincess]

[mcar]

1. He never ran

[dflprincess]

4. Our loss

and I thought so back when he might have been a candidate as well.

[bigwillq]

2. Did he want to be?

[Recursion]

3. Because he dicked around and kept saying he was running, he wasn't running, he was running

He could have had it in '92 if he'd just stepped up, but he dithered.

[annavictorious]

5. Bill Clinton wanted to put Mario on the Supreme Court.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/hendrik-hertzberg/mario-cuomo-miscarriage-justice

[CK_John]

6. He couldn't make a decision. He was a fact collector, he knew both sides

of every issue but ask him which one he supported you got a song and a dance.

[bigdarryl]

7. Because he never really wanted to run or be President

It reminds me what's happening now with liberals wanting Elizabeth Warren to run in the worst way.But if he had ran I think he would have gotten the nomination instead of Bill Clinton.And how history would be so different

[fishwax]

8. there was plenty of speculation in '92, but GHWB was so popular that many big names held off

Bush was so popular in the wake of the Gulf War victory that many of the party's biggest names were hesitant to run. (There was a Saturday Night Live skit about the democratic debates that was titled something like "The Race to Avoid Losing to Bush," and the idea was that each of the candidates was trying desperately to tank the debate. The guy playing Cuomo just kept saying some variation of "I have ties to the mob.&quot

One of the reasons Clinton actually won is because he was really early in launching his campaign, while others held off since they were skittish. The primary season then was really short. The Iowa Caucus was in February, and Super Tuesday was only 28 days later. By then, he essentially had it wrapped up, though Jerry Brown held out until the convention.