http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/09/nyregion/how-many-times-have-both-parties-nominated-new-yorkers-for-president.html 2016-10-07 23:48:15 How Many Times Have Both Parties Nominated New Yorkers for President? The Trump-Clinton campaign bears some, though not too many, similarities to three other New York-centric presidential elections. === Q. Unless Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party candidate, starts to catch fire, we seem certain to elect a president from New York this year. How many times have both major parties nominated New Yorkers as candidates, and do those elections share any themes with this year’s raucous campaign? A. The contest between The previous pairing that most advanced-level Trivial Pursuit players would recognize would be from 1944, when In that race, Dewey’s campaign sounded a theme that has been revisited by Mr. Trump: questioning the health and stamina of his rival. (Roosevelt died three months after being sworn in for a fourth term.) But in the waning months of Four years earlier, another New Yorker had tried to unseat Before Mr. Trump won this year’s Republican nomination, as But the dark days of the Depression were coming to an end in 1940, and Roosevelt won by 10 percentage points. ( The first election in which New Yorkers ran against each other had occurred 36 years earlier, and a Roosevelt was involved in that one as well. That 1904 campaign pitted And as has occurred with Mr. Trump, opponents suggested that Roosevelt was perhaps a bit off his rocker. The Democrats attacked the Roosevelt administration as “spasmodic, erratic, sensational, spectacular and arbitrary” and offered their candidate as the “sane, safe choice,” according to the website of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. The opposition’s charges would make little impact on Roosevelt, partly because of Parker’s lethargic strategy. “He decided to conduct a ‘front porch’ campaign, which was basically to sit back and let voters and well-wishers come to him, where he would entertain them with speeches,” The “spasmodic” and “erratic” candidate won easily.