Sunday Quizmo: 2 (Two) incumbent 20th century DEM presidents

[Smarmie Doofus]

... dropped relection bids after losing the NH primary to a DEM upstart.

Who were they?

( No cheating! And.. no; I didn't know this either.)

[treestar]

1. LBJ?

[Smarmie Doofus]

2. I said *TWO*! No points. nt

[Frank Cannon]

3. LBJ and Truman? n/t

[Smarmie Doofus]

5. It's yours! (You didn't peek did you?)

Bonus pts: Who was the upstart?

And why did I not know anything about this? I always thought Truman simply decided he didn't want another term.

[rurallib]

8. LBJ lost to Clean Gene McCarthy - Truman -

let me guess and say Henry Wallace?

[Smarmie Doofus]

9. McCarthy , yes. H. Wallace would have been my guess also but it was....

ESTES KEFAUVER.

Seems like both Wallace and Kefauver have been written out of history. (Hmm.... I wonder why.)


Wiki:

1952 election


Kefauver won all but three primaries, but failed to win nomination
In the 1952 presidential election, Kefauver decided to offer himself as a candidate for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. Campaigning in his coonskin cap, often by dogsled, Kefauver made history when, in an electrifying victory in the New Hampshire primary, he defeated President Harry S. Truman, the sitting president of the United States. Although Kefauver would go on to win twelve of the fifteen primaries that were held that year, losing three to "favorite son" candidates, primaries were not, at that time, the main method of delegate selection for the national convention. Kefauver, therefore, entered the convention a few hundred votes shy of the needed majority. In the 1952 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Kefauver received 3.1 million votes, while the eventual 1952 Democratic presidential nominee, Illinois governor Adlai Stevenson, received only 78,000 votes. Yet "the Kefauver campaign for the nomination in 1952 became the classic example of how presidential primary victories do not automatically lead to the nomination itself."<5> Although he began the balloting far ahead of the other declared candidates, Kefauver eventually lost the nomination to Stevenson, the choice of the Democratic Party political bosses. Stevenson, a one-term governor who was up for reelection in 1952, had previously resisted calls to enter the race, but he was nominated anyway by a "Draft Stevenson" movement that had been energized by his eloquent keynote speech on the opening night of the convention. He would go on to lose the general election to General Dwight D. Eisenhower in a landslide.
1956 election

[Frank Cannon]

13. That's interesting. Thanks for that.

I had heard of Estes Kefauver but knew nothing about him.

[Art_from_Ark]

10. Actually, Johnson won the New Hampshire primary

but the margin of victory was only 7 percentage points and Johnson decided to bow out of the presidential race.

[Smarmie Doofus]

12. You are correct sir! And actually I was aware of that but...

.... became unaware that I had been aware of it.

It would have made for a much better Quizmo had I asked "What sitting DEM president dropped out after being defeated in NH?"

That woulda/coulda/shoulda been a puzzler. As everyone would keep thinking LBJ.

[Frank Cannon]

11. To be honest with you, those are the only two Dem presidents...

from the 20th century other than JFK, FDR, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton that I remember offhand. FDR and JFK died, Carter DID try to get reelected, and Clinton WAS reelected. So it was kind of a wash.

[damyank913]

7. You win an all expenses paid tour...

...to sunny Afghanistan. Don't forget to pack your freedom to give away to all the wonderful people you encounter on this enchanted journey.

[Smarmie Doofus]

14. I was thinking more, "Free Burial in the Raccoon National....

... Cemetery. Bismarck, ND"

[damyank913]

4. LBJ and Carter?

[Smarmie Doofus]

6. Sorry. It was HST. n/t