> won a nomination?
>
George Bush the younger did so in 2000, after getting preordained
as the front runner in 1998 or so.
See http://www.cookpolitical.com/column/1998/070498.php and http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1998/09/98/us_midterms/203007.stm for example...
--tim francis-wright