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Buttoneer

(993 posts) Fri Jun 28, 2024, 04:16 PM Jun 2024

Remember when LBJ decided not to run, and we got President Hubert Humphrey?

I don't

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Remember when LBJ decided not to run, and we got President Hubert Humphrey? (Original Post) Buttoneer Jun 2024 OP

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I'm not advocating that Biden should drop out, but are you suggesting Johnson would have beaten Nixon? rsdsharp Jun 2024 #2

But...Had Bobby Kennedy not been shot down... farmbo Jun 2024 #3

4139

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Fri Jun 28, 2024, 04:23 PM

Jun 2024

rsdsharp

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2. I'm not advocating that Biden should drop out, but are you suggesting Johnson would have beaten Nixon?

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Fri Jun 28, 2024, 04:36 PM

Jun 2024

Or even done as well as Humphrey?

farmbo

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3. But...Had Bobby Kennedy not been shot down...

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Fri Jun 28, 2024, 05:27 PM

Jun 2024

We would have had a second President Kennedy, IMHO.
The primaries in 1968 were actually working... until Bobby was assonated after winning the California. Primary.

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