re: #199 Charleston Chew

Are Republicans more prone to being infatuated with ‘hero’ candidate (such as Perry, or Thompson in 08)and then quickly becoming disillusioned with the real person, producing a lot of shooting star nominees, or is it universal? I can’t think of any recent Dem candidates that were shooting stars in this way.

Hillary was going to be THE candidate in 2008
Dean in 2004
Bill Bradley/ Paul Wellstone/ Bob Kerrey 2000
Jerry Brown/ Paul Tsongas 1992
Gary Hart 1988