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r3x29yz4a said:
I can't recall anyone in the last 50 years winning the presidency without having served as either a governor, vice president, or senator.



Go back 53 years (or only the last 12 or so elections), however, and you have Dwight D. Eisenhower.

I see you point, and it isn't a bad one. However, as Mayor of New York, Guiliani presided over a city that's government and population was larger than some of our states.