When was the last time a young, unknown Governor of a small "backwater" state on the Presidential ticket?

Question

"Americans gave the future of the U.S., the world's one remaining superpower, into the hands of the young (46), relatively unknown Governor of a small Southern state, a man with no experience in foreign policy and virtually none in Washington either."

Source: www.time.com

http://www.time.com/time/subscriber/personoftheyear/archive/stories/1992.html

Answer 1

Monica's Cigar!

Bingo!

Do you know why you, Obama Daddy can't open your mouth when your talking?

BACAUZE the nats, will get in!

McCain and the 1st female VP in 08!

Answer 2

Like Geraldine Ferraro? She was pretty much a hooker too.

Answer 3

Oh, I thought you were talking about Sarah Palin at first.

Answer 4

THAT was for PRESIDENT.  It changes alot when you put the word VICE in front of it.

Go grow some more peanuts!

Answer 5

Luck or not I had a lot more money in my pocket and in the bank when Clinton was president . Our whole country was lucky to have him as president. I voted for Ross Perot the second time . But now that I have 20/20 hind sight the last almost 8 years under Republican rule have almost seemed like the modern day dark ages for our country.  I really do appreciate Clinton now -and I am  glad that he own twice.

Obama / Biden -08 > for a better future

P. S. I think very Highly of President Carter as well

Answer 6

I don't know about a young unknown governor from a small backwater state.

How about a young known backwater governor from a large well known state?

GWBush

Answer 7

Could it possibly be you?

Answer 8

Wasn't Clinton younger then Carter?  Plus, Arkansas is smaller then Georgia right?

Answer 9

Nice article, funny how we forget sometimes what a jerk Reagan and  Bush daddy were.They were so d**n bad that Clinton walked all over them.

"Discontent with politics was bottomed on a deeper anxiety. The

famous sign in the Clinton headquarters in Little Rock stated the essential problem briskly: THE ECONOMY, STUPID! The chronic recession had eaten deeply into the country's morale. Americans sensed that the problem was not a matter of the usual economic cycles, a downturn that would be followed by an upturn, but rather involved something deeper and scarier—a "systemic" change in America's economic relations with the rest of the world and a deterioration in what America was capable of doing. "

Answer 10

Arkansas had a population of 2 and a half Million

Alaska has a population of just over half a million

that doesn't really scream that it represents the four corners of the U.S.