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BluegrassStateBlues

(881 posts) Fri Oct 25, 2013, 04:21 PM Oct 2013

That always works out well.

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We should only select the most principled candidates, regardless of electability [View all] BluegrassStateBlues Oct 2013 OP

If I were around at the time, I would have voted for him in a heartbeat. BluegrassStateBlues Oct 2013 #3

Electability? RobertEarl Oct 2013 #11

No. That's preposterous. nt BluegrassStateBlues Oct 2013 #17

Yes. Your proposition is preposterous. RobertEarl Oct 2013 #21

I voted for him too nt LiberalElite Oct 2013 #29

I canvassed & voted for him. Jackpine Radical Oct 2013 #26

So, what is it that makes a candidate "electable"? dawg Oct 2013 #5

The ability to get at least 51% of the vote? nt BluegrassStateBlues Oct 2013 #7

Only knowable after the fact. Bluenorthwest Oct 2013 #9

That one's kind of hard to determine until after the fact. dawg Oct 2013 #14

Money. Jackpine Radical Oct 2013 #27

A corporate seal of approval is important. jsr Oct 2013 #31

That should be the goal, to elect the most progressive candidate quinnox Oct 2013 #6

I don't think it SHOULD be that way, but that's the reality. BluegrassStateBlues Oct 2013 #12

Bingo … 1StrongBlackMan Oct 2013 #30

McGovern was my first vote wilt the stilt Oct 2013 #10

Walter Mondale was also a highly principled guy. Nye Bevan Oct 2013 #13

The two aren't mutually exclusive. Scuba Oct 2013 #15

Apples and oranges. NuclearDem Oct 2013 #18

We have the choice to do that in the primaries. BluegrassStateBlues Oct 2013 #19

I voted for McGovern. I knew he would not get elected, MineralMan Oct 2013 #20

So you think Humphry would have defeated Nixon in '72? Chathamization Oct 2013 #23

HHH had already lost once to Nixon, in 1968. GreenStormCloud Oct 2013 #24

Yep, that's why taking '72 as a cautionary sign always seemed strange to me Chathamization Oct 2013 #25

I vote based on character Niceguy1 Oct 2013 #28