The Last Man Standing

The Republican Party, since about 1968, tends to nominate for president the candidate considered to be the "next in line." That is, the candidate who came in second in the previous party nomination contest four or eight years earlier, or the candidate who is best known nationally and serves as the "establishment" choice. If Mitt Romney wins the GOP nomination for president, he would be the latest in a long line of Republican candidates who won in large part because they had run before, they w...