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In reply to the discussion: Please Remember. Republicans Steal Elections. [View all]fishwax
(29,146 posts)17. Even if Nixon had won Illinois, he would have still lost the electoral vote
No one is as blue a Democrat or more liberal than me. But, let us remember that in the 1960 elections, it is possible if not probable that Mayor Richard Daley pulled a few strings and handed John F. Kennedy the election (which was the closest decided election in U.S. history). Richard M. Nixon was classy enough not to challenge the results and the rest is history.
It isn't at all possible that Daley handed JFK the election, since even without Illinois JFK would have had 276 electoral votes. It's not even likely that Daley gave JFK Illinois, because the final vote tally remained in JFK's column despite vigorous protests of the vote by the national GOP. (Nixon's classiness in this situation is pretty specious--though he didn't publicly call for challenges to the results, his party's operatives aggressively challenged the vote in several states.) Republicans claimed that the democratic machine stole Texas as well as Illinois, and those two combined would have given Nixon the electoral vote. But there has never been much convincing evidence to support either claim.
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questionseverything
Sep 2012
#59
Even if Nixon had won Illinois, he would've still lost the election...
Drunken Irishman
Sep 2012
#12
Um...I'd like to call BULLSHIT, and say that Nixon had an awful lot of CORN HUSKS voting for him in
LaydeeBug
Sep 2012
#91
Last time, the GOPers just said, "Well, I guess the exit polls were wrong for a change."
Beartracks
Sep 2012
#72
This is probably the most important post I have seen in my short presence here at DU.
defacto7
Sep 2012
#18
May all talented computer geeks & hackers tune into this election & watch very closely, take shifts
judesedit
Sep 2012
#19
here are some folks that actually have proven election theft on a 2 billion dollar bond issue
questionseverything
Sep 2012
#60
And few have done anything about except reflexively yell, "Fuck Nader".
Luminous Animal
Sep 2012
#22
We need to win by a very big, shaming majority and we need Eric Holder now.
David Zephyr
Sep 2012
#31
ReasonableToo, the GOP is not getting everything they want from President Obama.
David Zephyr
Sep 2012
#34
Ooof! Have never seen that clip before...Chilling! I will NEVER forget going to bed on Election
AzDar
Sep 2012
#67