Most Nominees don't pick a former primary opponent as VP

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Since 1912, it has happened 14 times. More often is we count re-election campaigns. Then the number rises. So it's happened less than it hasn't happened, but it certainly isn't the exception to the rule.

2012 (D): Obama / Biden (Biden was STILL Obama's primary rival)
2008 (D): Obama / Biden
2004 (D): John Kerry and John Edwards
1996 (R): Bob Dole and Jack Kemp
1984 (R): Ronald Reagan and Bush I (Bush was STILL Reagan's primary rival)
1980 (R): Ronald Reagan and Bush I
1972 (R): Nixon / Agnew (Agnew was STILL Nixon's primary running mate)
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 (X3)
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)