Because presidential candidates don't lose their home state. Its the stae where they are most popular and Gore got his butt kicked there...You lefties always complained about Fla. but in truth it was Tenn. that cost him the presidency.......
Name ↓ Election Year ↓ Party ↓ Birth State ↓ Resident State ↓
William Henry Harrison 1840 Whig Lost Virginia Won Ohio
James Knox Polk 1844 Democrat Lost North Carolina Lost Tennessee
Abraham Lincoln 1860 Republican Lost Kentucky Won Illinois
Abraham Lincoln 1864 Republican Lost Kentucky Won Illinois
Woodrow Wilson 1916 Democratic Won Virginia Lost New Jersey
Richard Nixon 1968 Republican Won California Lost New York
George H. W. Bush 1988 Republican Lost Massachusetts Won Texas
George W. Bush 2000 Republican Lost Connecticut Won Texas
George W. Bush 2004 Republican Lost Connecticut Won Texas
Name ↓ Election Year ↓ Party ↓ Birth State ↓ Resident State ↓
Martin Van Buren 1840 Democrat Lost New York Lost New York
Henry Clay 1844 Whig Lost Virginia Won Kentucky
Winfield Scott 1852 Whig Lost Virginia Lost New Jersey
John C. Frémont 1856 Republican Lost Georgia Lost California
Stephen A. Douglas 1860 Democrat Lost Vermont Lost Illinois
George B. McClellan 1864 Democrat Lost Pennsylvania Won New Jersey
Horace Greeley 1872 Democrat Lost Massachusetts Lost New York
Winfield Scott Hancock 1880 Democrat Lost Pennsylvania Lost Pennsylvania
Grover Cleveland 1888 Democrat Won New Jersey Lost New York
Benjamin Harrison 1892 Republican Won Ohio Lost Indiana
William Jennings Bryan 1896 Democrat-Populist Lost Illinois Won Nebraska
William Jennings Bryan 1900 Democrat-Populist Lost Illinois Lost Nebraska
Alton B. Parker 1904 Democrat Lost New York Lost New York
William Jennings Bryan 1908 Democrat Lost Illinois Won Nebraska
Theodore Roosevelt 1912 Progressive Lost New York Lost New York
William Howard Taft 1912 Republican Lost Ohio Lost Ohio
James M. Cox 1920 Democrat Lost Ohio Lost Ohio
John W. Davis 1924 Democrat Lost West Virginia Lost New York
Al Smith 1928 Democrat Lost New York Lost New York
Herbert Hoover 1932 Republican Lost Iowa Lost California
Alf Landon 1936 Republican Lost Pennsylvania Lost Kansas
Thomas E. Dewey 1944 Republican Lost Michigan Lost New York
Adlai Stevenson 1952 Democrat Lost California Lost Illinois
Adlai Stevenson 1956 Democrat Lost California Lost Illinois
Hubert Humphrey 1968 Democrat Lost South Dakota Won Minnesota
George McGovern 1972 Democrat Lost South Dakota Lost South Dakota
George H. W. Bush 1992 Republican Lost Massachusetts Won Texas
Al Gore 2000 Democrat Won District of Columbia Lost Tennessee
John Kerry 2004 Democrat Lost Colorado Won Massachusetts
Seems like quite a few presidential candidates lost their home or birth state.