NYT: Many presidential candidates failed to win their birth state

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To a Presidential Notion: Sorry, Mr. Bush, but No

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 — “I may be the only person, the only presidential candidate who never carried the state in which he was born,” President Bush said on Monday.

Uh, no, Mr. President. There have been quite a few, actually. Some are known only to historians, while others are famous. You might even call one a household name, Mr. President, depending on which household.

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Al Gore, for instance. History buffs will remember that he failed to carry Tennessee in 2000. But while Tennessee is often called his “home state,” he was born in Washington, D.C., which he carried overwhelmingly.

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And the household name, Mr. President? That would be your father, George Herbert Walker Bush, born in the Town of Milton in eastern Massachusetts, a state he lost twice.

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