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Polybius

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17. What counts as dirty tricks?

Reply to DFW (Reply #12)

Mon Sep 18, 2023, 11:02 AM

Sep 2023

If it's legal, does that count? Would lying count as dirty tricks?

What about 1960? Kennedy might have lost had it not been for that debate and him looking much better than Nixon. So, was he "legitimately elected"? Of course he was imo.

Personally, I think they both were legitimately elected. Unless something highly illegal happens (1972 for sure, and 1980 allegedly), then they are legit.

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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