Democratic Primaries

Your OP set a 70 year time limit when we've had nominating contests since the late 1700s.

Later in the thread you moved the goal post so only winning tickets matter. LOL.

Based on the info already in this thread, I went back a bit further than 70 years.


2008 (D): Obama / Biden
2004 (D): John Kerry and John Edwards
1996 (R): Bob Dole and Jack Kemp
1980 (R): Ronald Reagan and Bush I
1968 (R): Nixon / Agnew
1960 (D): John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson
1956 (D): Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver
1948 (R): Thomas Dewey and Earl Warren (Warren was a favorite-son candidate)
1944 (R): Thomas Dewey and John Bricker
1936 (R): Alf Landon and Frank Knox
1932 (D): Franklin Roosevelt and John Nance Garner
1928 (R): Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis
1916 (R): Charles Evans Hughes and Charles Fairbanks
1912 (D): Woodrow Wilson and Thomas Marshall (Marshall was a favorite-son candidate)

1800s? Just didn't feel like doing the research.

Regardless, it happens quite a bit more than your op suggests.