who would not otherwise win.
It would put a guy with emotional and personal control issues in the White House with his finger on the button.
It is a bit spurious to compare 1968 to today, for a couple of reasons: first of all, LBJ, who was the incumbent, and who, after realizing he would not win (BECAUSE of the strong showing by McCarthy in that NH primary and one other), Sherman'd that election, won NH, and second, we didn't have anything CLOSE to a fifty state primary system back then--in fact, it was mostly smoke-filled rooms and horse-trading and wheeling-dealing; the whole primary thing was a way to make people believe they had an important role in picking the candidates. RFK, who was born and raised in the Bay State, would have won Massachusetts in a walk...if his name was on the MA ballot (it wasn't). He'd barely declared at the time MA held their primary, and it wasn't clear if he was "serious" or running to make one of those "mainstreamed message" points. It was a different system back then, a lot of games were played. 68 did play a role in changing the system to where we're at today, such as it is....
Gold denotes a state won by Lyndon B. Johnson. Purple denotes a state won by Robert Kennedy Green denotes a state won by Eugene McCarthy. Blue denotes a state won by George Smathers. Orange denotes a state won by Stephen M. Young. Grey denotes a state that did not hold a primary.
I don't think BS should "run to make a point." All he'll do is take votes away from the Democratic ticket and put a Republican in the WH. No "conversation" will be advanced, no "message" will be mainstreamed. The message will be "The wingnuts win, the people lose."
Enough of that nonsense! We need to be disciplined and vote for a candidate who will win, and will give us more of what we want than the other candidate.
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