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Polybius

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16. Wallace's votes would have went to Nixon anyway

Reply to DFW (Reply #14)

Mon Sep 18, 2023, 10:58 AM

Sep 2023

The South did not want Humphrey after LBJ, who admitted that his policies lost the South for a generation. 1968 was gonna be lost with Humphrey no matter what. RFK living and winning the nomination is a whole other story.

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Excellent quote by President Eisenhower [View all] BOSSHOG Sep 2023 OP

Not in my lifetime. The Unmitigated Gall Sep 2023 #1

Ford was sorta decent Polybius Sep 2023 #6

Here's an Eisenhower era repub salute to labor in 1956. brush Sep 2023 #2

The last legitimately elected opposition party president (n/t) Seeking Serenity Sep 2023 #3

Nixon '68? Polybius Sep 2023 #7

Nixon needed his "dirty tricks team" DFW Sep 2023 #12

Absolutely. And there's no way "Tricky Dick" Nixon would ever have been legitimate in any case Seeking Serenity Sep 2023 #13

Yes, we often seem to get knifed ten meters before the finish line by extremist "Democrats" DFW Sep 2023 #14

Wallace's votes would have went to Nixon anyway Polybius Sep 2023 #16

Nixon won 301 Electoral votes that year Polybius Sep 2023 #15

What counts as dirty tricks? Polybius Sep 2023 #17

Donald Segretti and Roger Ailes were involved in that group DFW Sep 2023 #18

No. No Gopper has legitimately won a presidential election since 1956 Seeking Serenity Sep 2023 #19

Another letter of Eisenhower's with which Americans should be familiar is the "Biggs letter". keep_left Sep 2023 #4

Thank You for the post BOSSHOG Sep 2023 #5

You're welcome. Both the Hoffer and Fromm books really illuminate... keep_left Sep 2023 #10

To say nothing of being able to write an English sentence with semicolons. marybourg Sep 2023 #8

Yeah BOSSHOG Sep 2023 #9