User blog comment:Scrawland Scribblescratch/Presidential Stuff/@comment-32656-20120902032812/@comment-32656-20120903033629

No, he would not have been. Nor is 40 good enough in that era.

There is absolutely no way a bunch of immigrants would go to South Carolina. There are very good reasons why it would be New York City that they went. Which would be unchanged, no matter what you'd prefer.

The number of politicians from New York is irrelevant. Look at the number of years they are in power. After FDR, they will not win.

And neither Reagan or McCain suffered from admitted major health issues, and had just resigned from a position over it. Hull also would have 5 years on McCain when he ran, and almost 10 on Reagan. And had a running mate in bad health. So he actually would have been much older than Reagan.