User blog comment:Scrawland Scribblescratch/Presidential Stuff/@comment-32656-20120902032812/@comment-32656-20120903031413

The minimum age to be elected is 35 - you cannot even run, for either half of the ticket, if you are not at least that age.

Taft won in 1908 - the same point you have Smith winning.

Problem is that Smith did not turn 35 until December of 1908. Could not even have ran. Nor would he have been considered for a number of years. There is a good reason why he ran in the late 1920s. Too young, and Catholic.

Hull would not have been a VP candidate. By 1948, he was 76 years old, and a little sickly most of his adult life. Heck, he resigned as SecState in 1944 because of his illnesses.

So that leaves two sickly men on a ticket. Good luck having them win.

FDR suffered from many illnesses by even 1940. That he lived as long as he did could even be construed as a bit if a "miracle." There is no way, whatsoever, that he lives longer than otl.

80s referred to Hull.

And of that ignores entirely the matter of the vast majority being from New York. Simply put, there is no way, at all, that that would happen.