Jerry Brown and Gary Hart did it. So did Ted Kennedy and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Also Henry Jackson and Jesse Jackson. Nelson Rockefeller did it and — going way, way back — so did Oscar Underwood. There's also Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan, the only ones who eventually became president, though not the first time they tried it.
Now, conducting a presidential candidacy likely to move her into the honorable group of candidates who didn't win the White House but who nonetheless hung in and fought is ... Nikki Haley of South Carolina.
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